Category: General
VoIP In A Fishbowl
Friday, March 9th, 2012 at 6:08 AM EST
Some years ago I wrote an article about the first VoIP-based security exploit in the industry. As with any digital technology these days, the darker side of the technology community has its sights on VoIP. More recently I’ve waxed eloquent over what I see as the coming tidal wave of mobile VoIP applications, running both [...]
Phone.com Inks A Deal With FlexJobs
Wednesday, March 7th, 2012 at 2:22 PM EST
FlexJobs is a service for people looking for part-time, freelance and telecommuting jobs. It is a growing niche who want it all but want it from their living room or dining room table. Phone.com is a big believer in this kind of work and decided to partner with FlexJobs to offer virtual telephone service. [...]
Using The Cloud To Save Money As A Small Business
Friday, March 2nd, 2012 at 12:30 PM EST
I’ve been giving a lot of thought these days to very small companies. I’m talking between 1to 3 people. It’s not easy, typically it’s a bootstrap operation and everyone is pinching pennies. Cutting the fat but staying healthy as a company is key. Your company needs to be smart but still spend money on the [...]
2011 Reviewed: Business VoIP Overtakes PBXes
Friday, March 2nd, 2012 at 1:26 AM EST
Business VoIP appears to be winning the battle against traditional PBXes, if I’m reading the latest results from research house Infonetics correctly. According to a newly released report by Infonetics, while PBX sales in 2011 rose globally year-over-year by a reasonable total of 6 percent, somewhere around the end of last year the market turned. [...]
Bell Labs
Sunday, February 26th, 2012 at 11:06 AM EST
Inspired by a new book by Jon Gertner today’s New York Times has a great story about Bell Labs the great AT&T and for a short time Lucent Technologies engine for pretty much all telecom innovations for so many decades. Today it is just a shadow of its former self as part of Alcatel-Lucent. I [...]
BYOD And Save Your Company Money
Friday, February 24th, 2012 at 6:52 AM EST
BYOD is a relatively new acronym standing for Bring Your Own Device. It’s a concept many small businesses are embracing for many reasons. It allows employees to bring their own hardware to the work place and use them as an alternative to the company provided option. This cuts the cost for the company and in [...]
Phone.com Investor ff Venture Capital Talks To TechCrunch TV
Friday, February 17th, 2012 at 3:07 PM EST
The founder of ff Venture Capital John Frankel (Twitter.com/John_Frankel) and David Teten (Twitter.com/DTeten) who joined ffVC last year both got interviewed by TechCrunch’s Erick Schonfeld (Twitter.com/ErickSchonfeld). They talk about a few subjects from raising capital to how they invest it in new companies. What I thought was most interesting was how they choose a [...]
The FCC Is Enhancing Restrictions On Robocalls
Thursday, February 16th, 2012 at 12:51 PM EST
“The FCC is giving American consumers some help to keep a little more peace and serenity in their homes”. This is some refreshing news from the FCC, they’re going to tighten the restrictions on automated or robocalling telemarketing calls. Companies will have to have written permission from you to harass you on your home phone [...]
Mobile VoIP Via VoLTE Inches Closer To Reality
Wednesday, February 8th, 2012 at 4:27 PM EST
Surfing the web this week I stumbled across a somewhat techie little piece of news that’s actually big news for VoIP users, particularly the massive body of potential mobile VoIP users. It seems that back on Dec. 23 Qualcomm and Ericsson completed the first voice call handover from an LTE mobile network to a WCDMA [...]
M.I.T. To Offer Free Coursework
Monday, February 6th, 2012 at 12:00 PM EST
Recently someone brought to my attention something world changing. It’s not like asteroids are falling to earth world changing but it could change the many peoples lives. Let me just get right to it. M.I.T. the world renowned university in Massachusetts is going to start offering approximately 2,100 courses for free under the name M.I.T.x. [...]