The Future of the Remote Workforce

By: Ari Last week I wrote about the SocComm event we were attending. Now it is time to summarize it. The event took place Tuesday at a great facility downtown New York City and was planned and produced by Jeff Pulver. Right after the event I left on vacation so I just got an opportunity to post this now. 48 hours delay is still ok, no? SocComm was a great and energizing event. It was different than most conferences or seminars one usually attends and it really did live up to our expectations bringing together experts, professionals in the space

By: Ari The end of every year is always a time when lots of predictions for the new year appear in various publications. Today I wanted to comment on NetworkWorld and the Top 10 predictions for VoIP and convergence for 2009. I agree with the authors, Steve Taylor and Larry Hettick with most (if not all) of their thoughts as I have also stated in some of my predictions. First, as I wrote in my previous blog, i do think that we need to NOT generalize and call it “Predictions for VoIP” as Voip is to general. Any replacements are

By: Ari Today, Phone.com announced a new service called Phone.com Global Numbers. Phone.com now offers all its Virtual Office customers the ability to obtain a phone number over 40 countries. If you have a business in the US but have customers or clients in France (see complete list of countries here) you can get a local phone number with say a Paris area code and give it to your clients. They now can dial that number and reach you in the US. Simple. They only pay a price of a local Paris call. You only pay for a US minute

By: Alon Cohen NEW Phone.Com online forum lets customers and office managers collaborate, ask questions about product features and share ideas. PHONE.COM LABS is home to new technologies and “ideas-in-progress” developed by Phone.Com programmers and engineers. Brian Scott, our COO explains how “Phone.Com Labs” works to form a link from traditional product development cycles to a more user-centric innovation. What does Phone.Com Labs do? Phone.Com Labs was launched as a forum for sharing new technologies, concepts and ideas with potential users and customers. Our purpose is to offer previews so our developers, engineers and users can have a discussion about

There are many publications covering the voice over IP (VoIP) industry. One of the better industry publications for reviewing trends and seeing some “real analyzed” industry stats is: IP Business News, edited by Gary Kim. A recent article discusses the large number of home phone lines that the big incumbent phone companies are losing. Contrary to what many think, these lines are not all lost to mobile phones. The article addresses a survey conducted by the Yankee Group showing that “Many consumers are not getting rid of their home phone but instead are switching to alternate or lower cost residential

I PORT YOU PORT HE PORTS SHE PORTS   What is port? Some people think of sailing, others dessert wine (actually come to think of it they go together). But here at Phone.com we think of the verb TO PORT as one of the best features. Why? Because we totally get that you are well known not just by the company you keep, but by the number you give out. Your identity may be integrally linked to your digits. So keep them, just PORT them to our service.   Enter Phone.com. You can enjoy all the benefits our Virtual Office