December 2007

Faxes on social networking sites

Sun, 2007-12-30 12:38 — JR

I havenâ€™t seen eFax type services on social networking sites. It would be nice to receive faxes on your personal pages. It sounds like a genuine necessity. Although that pushes social networking towards communications more, but that is going to...

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Interview with J. Scott Hamilton, CEO, voodoovox

Thu, 2007-12-27 01:41 — JR

How big a proportion of your business comes from VoIP providers as opposed to call centers and radio stations etc? It has so far been mainly the radio stations and call centers. We serve over 450 radio and TV stations:...

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2008 VoIP predictions

Mon, 2007-12-24 23:41 — JR

Here are my top 10 predictions for 2008 .... 1. Web mashup will stay hot. Old wine in new bottles mostly. I expect to see old VoIP applications being revived just because of the timing factor. Social networking will drive...

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Interview with Yusuf Motiwala, CEO, TringMe

Mon, 2007-12-24 00:08 — JR

Your incoming call solution is essentially click-to-call where you forward the incoming call to either a VoIP client or an IM client or a designated cell phone or land line. Now, we have had the first generation of web telephony...

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Necessity is still the mother of most innovation

Sun, 2007-12-23 00:27 — JR

Ever wondered why similar startups surface roughly at the same time? There is a generally-held view that since these startups talk to similar VCs and since VC community is a tightly knit community, the idea spreads around. Since I donâ€™t...

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IPTV advertising clearinghouse

Sat, 2007-12-22 20:12 — JR

Just projecting forward the discussion in Faisalâ€™s post yesterday â€¦. â€œ â€¦. Targeted advertising will do wonders if you have local businesses and corner shops being able to advertise on local household TVs. However the telcos and channels do not...

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How not to sell comb to a bald man

Fri, 2007-12-21 14:59 — Faisal Kawoosa

IPTV advertising focuses on and highlights one important aspect: more targeted advertising â€¦ to the extent that you for the first time enable local business advertising on an organized scale. I briefly spoke to UK based PacketVision on the subject....

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Nokia Siemens Networks: 8 months into merger

Thu, 2007-12-20 19:33 — JR

Expanding services revenue is one of the main reasons why Nokia and Siemens merged their telecom infrastructure units. In the video we discussed how far the services side would develop at NSN going forward. We also talked about Voice 2.0...

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Company Profile: Redline Communications

Thu, 2007-12-20 13:32 — Faisal Kawoosa

Market: Redline Communications serves fixed / mobile wireless broadband access and backhaul solutions. Deployments: The company presently has around 50,000 installations in 80 countries across 6 continents. It works with a network of more than 100 partner distributors that support...

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Nokia Smartphone 360 Panel survey results, Part 2

Wed, 2007-12-19 15:56 — JR

I shared with you some of the results on December 4th. In addition to the results mentioned in that post, here are some interesting findings revealed by Nokia: Where are outbound calls being made: On the move 47%; At home...

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