My first question reading this list was – why no telco? Skype generate almost all of their income from PSTN with circa 8 million subscribers paying an average of $97 per year for PSTN access. Wouldn’t it be a natural fit for a telco with global ambitions (easy answer to this – there are no
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1 Comment » Busy day for the guys at Google Voice. Not only did they release the ability to port your mobile/cell number to Google Voice (US only) they also announced that they had acquired SayNow. SayNow was not a competitor to Google Voice but it did have 15 million users and I suspect this will be a technology and
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Google took another step into the UC marketplace today with the introduction of number portability to Google Voice. Number portability is critical to Google in that it allows a user to move their existing mobile/cell number to the Google Voice service. Without the ability to port numbers the service would take a much harder path
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I can’t help thinking that eventually Cisco and Microsoft will lock themselves in a room and come to an agreement that recognises their mutual benefit in developing joint UC solutions. The Cisco/Lync integration seen below is a great example of how two companies can create great services for end users. I appreciate this is using Tandberg equipment that was
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At CES this week Google demonstrated Honeycomb – the tablet specific version of Android. Google are pitching the device as a potential communication platform in a similar fashion to Avaya and Cisco recent tablet announcements. Take a look at the Verizon CES keynote. At around 8.23 Mike Cleron (Principal Android Engineer at Google) states that
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Google Voice is now released as an official iPhone app. See more detail here With this native app, you’ll continue to have access to all the major Google Voice features on your iPhone, like: Cheap rates for international calls Free text messaging to U.S. numbers Voicemail transcription Display your Google Voice number as caller ID when
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When you are in a dominant market position it is often hard to sustain but I do think there is more going on with RIM/Blackberry. RIM managed to hop on and ride the corporate mobile market during the formative years of the market. Now the enterprise mobile market is maturing Blackberry is being swept aside
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Update: here is the link to the official Microsoft Android Lync app From the guys at Widget Media there is now an OCS client available for Android. This is a welcome addition, the MS OCS and Lync team need to recognise that they can’t expect large organisations to fall into the Windows Phone 7, Nokia and
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Engadget is reporting that the Tegra Advent Android tablet could be available in the UK next week in Dixons for £249. I’m not surprised that Advent come to market first as I remember picking up one of the first available netbooks in the UK from Dixons which happened to be an Advent branded machine. I’m
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