Category: General
How To Be Home When You Roam
Friday, April 20th, 2012 at 8:53 AM EST
I was just reading an article in the Wall Street Journal about a globe-trotting businessman who came back to the U.S. to find a $10,000 phone bill waiting for him. Seems the poor guy used his smartphone overseas, gobbling up data, and he even – gulp – made some phone calls. The story is one [...]
VoIP Outlaws
Thursday, April 12th, 2012 at 6:17 AM EST
Here’s an interesting dilemma: Would you use VoIP telephony, saving hundreds or thousands of dollars on your international business phone calls, if it meant risking a jail sentence. As it turns out hundreds, and perhaps thousands, of small businesses and individuals are doing just that in Nepal. What they’re trying to do is reap the [...]
Study Says: SMEs Flocking To Hosted VoIP
Thursday, April 5th, 2012 at 5:30 PM EST
If you’re a small to medium size business already getting your telephone service from Phone.com, you’re in the vanguard of what will be a tidal wave, according to a new study by The Insight Research Company. The research house is predicting that, over the next five years, both telephone companies and cable companies will lose [...]
Reprogramming Headaches
Friday, March 30th, 2012 at 7:13 AM EST
Now that I’m back from almost two months of travel one of the first things on my agenda was to reprogram my Phone.com services. While travelling I had both my personal and business calls forwarded to my cell phone, first to a temporary number abroad and then to my permanent U.S. number. It wasn’t very [...]
Why Telecom Professionals Aren’t Monogamous
Thursday, March 29th, 2012 at 10:55 AM EST
Editor’s Note: Revised by Alon Cohen EVP/CTO Phone.com. Based on an article by Alexander Haislip who is a marketing executive with cloud-based server automation startup ScaleXtreme and the author of Essentials of Venture Capital. Pity the telecom conglomerate incumbents, their salespeople and employees, most of whom are now being served with divorce papers, finally giving their spouses a way out from [...]
Upgrading the IP in VoIP
Thursday, March 22nd, 2012 at 6:55 PM EST
I just spent a day at a fascinating conference on the future of the Cable TV industry. Indeed the name Cable TV has become something of a misnomer. We’re talking about companies that deliver a majority of the residential broadband in the United States of America and a large and increasing amount of business broadband, [...]
Ari’s thoughts On Company Leadership
Thursday, March 22nd, 2012 at 6:50 PM EST
In a recent roundtable discussion Ari had with 2 other CEO’s and Patti Owens the host they cover a few different topics. I want to cover what Ari has to say in the chat. Patti asks “How do you keep employees happy?”. Ari’s response is that every employee must feel important and he does [...]
A Nice Mention for Must-Have Mobile Apps for Small Business Owners
Tuesday, March 20th, 2012 at 4:13 PM EST
We love getting mentioned in recommendation articles, they’re almost as good as testimonials. Our Mobile Office app got mentioned in a Must-Have Mobile Apps for SMB owner style article recently and I wanted to share some of the recommendations with our readers. The other 3 apps mentioned (besides Phone.com) are Square, which I saw [...]
Phone.com Company Profile By CEO Ari Rabban
Monday, March 19th, 2012 at 6:04 PM EST
“These small businesses we are addressing are using their cell phone number on their business card…” this is exactly what Phone.com is trying to do away with. Why put your personal cell phone number on your business card, you’re just asking to get phone calls at night and on the weekends. That’s ok for some [...]
One Ringy Dingy
Thursday, March 15th, 2012 at 8:35 PM EST
I’ve just come from a sojurn to Manhattan’s trendy South Street Seaport area, these days an emerging complex of upscale stores, cozy bistros, the posh Bridgewaters event hall, and even a dock with tall sailing ships. The last time I was in the area, some decades ago, the place was the site of the Fulton [...]