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Making free phone calls just got easier through Google(www.google.com) (so long we all remember that “free” is not really free, but subsidized through someone else’s money) via “Voice Calls from Gmail.” More specifically, you need a Gmail account and calls through your computer to American and Canadian numbers are free through “at least” January 2011. [...] Ringio (www.ringio.com) has completed its public beta (It doeth beg the question as to what that means, but it’s nicer than how Google handles its beta process, regardless) and has added more than a dozen new features to its “Rich Calling” service. “Rich Calling” integrates data from CRM and IVR tools for SMBs, giving customers “call [...] In the usual terse manner that all companies end up with, Skype (www.skype.com) has announced it has filed a S-1 registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for a proposed IPO of its “ordinary” shares. The SEC prospectus can be found here on www.sec.gov. Be interesting to see what skeletons come out. One [...] Optimum Lightpath (www.optimumlightpath.com) has connected to CENX’s New York exchange. The move allows Optimum to connect/reach more than 10 million Ethernet service locations worldwide, enabling Optimum’s customers to establish Ethernet-based low-latency and high-bandwidth connections between the New York metro area and key locations around the world. Needless to say, Optimum has a lot of financial [...] Junction Networks (www.junctionnetworks.com) has partnered with DiTech Network’s PhoneTag voicemail-to-text service. OnSIP customers will now be able to sign up for PhoneTag V2T (voicemail-to-text) service to get the whole, well, voicemail-to-text thing directly to their email inbox; a .WAV file is attached for listening as well. The first week is free. After that, PhoneTag is [...] CableLabs (www.cablelabs.com), the technology standards group for the cable industry, has published the PacketCable IP Interconnect specifications. The specifications open up the ability for cable companies to interconnect directly. Specifically, the two published specs define ENUM server provisioning and how the ENUM server resolves an IP address and CableLabs describes the IP Internet package as enabling [...] IntelePeer and WorkSpace Communications have teamed up to deliver a hosted UC offering based on Microsoft Office Communications Server. IntelePeer is providing the SIP Trunking service, a voice peering network, and “SuperRegistry” while WorkSpace is providing a patent-pending Microsoft OCS environment that interoperates with any previously installed Microsoft Exchange Solution. Together, the two enable service providers to [...] I hate to take Digium (www.digium.com) out to the woodshed, but this is the response I got when I asked about the potential for a Switchvox mobile client for Android. "Digium is evaluating the public response and usage of the iPhone and BlackBerry Apps, and based on these results we’ll determine if and when we should [...] Global Crossing (www.globalcrossing) has installed some heavy duty bandwidth at baseball stadiums around the country as a part of its deal with MLB.com. The company has installed 155 Mbps circuits to all 30 Major League Baseball ballparks around the country and a whopping 2.5 Gbps circuit in New York to enable the MLB.com site to [...] Verizon Business (www.verizonbusiness.com) will run field trials of Cisco’s new Hosted Collaboration Solution for the next two months. The trial is expected to enable participants to see how cloud-based UC&C (unified communication and collaboration) capabilities can be used quicly and cost-effectively across an enterprise. Participants include “a multinational auto manufacturer, a woman’s fashion retailer and [...] |
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