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SIPthat notes that Xten has launched a new video over IP SIP softphone… eyebeam. This is the same, though now enhanced application Vonage uses for softphone. The trick to this like all video phone / conferencing applications is getting someone on the other side. You can buy this for PC today at [...]

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Courtesy of Mediapost…

There are five agencies still competing for Vonage’s estimated $50 million account. They are: Arnold Worldwide; Carat; Mullen; Lowe, teamed up with Avenue A/Razorfish; and Starcom MediaVest and SMG Direct.
If I had to pick, I’d probably lean towards Mullen since they’ve got previous experience with Nextel which is also a complex, yet easy [...]

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Skype released a revised Mac OS X client today…
From the Skype Release Notes:

feature: you can set your birthday in your profile
change: enabled red close button in main window
change: Skype recognizes SkypeOut numbers in different formats a la (+44-55-66-77)
bugfix: auto-login should be much more stable now
bugfix: “Text” was displayed on My Skype tab, when user logged [...]

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Skype Rocks — This is still a pseudo rumor, but we’ll know soon enough. Skype is VERY quickly pushing itself across most if not all connected platforms. You gotta love it. No word just yet on what type of connection will be required to do voice, but at the very minimum, it [...]

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This puts the Treo 650 in our hands even sooner… the last report was for a November release, but this would enable October for a release date.
PalmOne’s eagerly anticipated Treo 650 smart phone, successor to the current Treo 600, is set to go on sale in October following the commencement of volume shipments [...]

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Andy at VOIP Watch runs through a call test using quite a few players through soft and hard phone… Callvantage gets the confirmed flag with the best call clarity, followed by Vonage Voice Pulse and SkypeOut. I thought it was pretty interesting from his conversation, that Skype to Skype had a better [...]

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Fortune has a nice piece on Vonage and CEO and founder Jeffery Citron. While Citron has a somewhat spotted past (a slight SEC issue) you can’t question the man’s prior success with Island and Datek which lend some good credibility to his ability to lead a company. The trick though is that the [...]

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Michael Gartenberg, an analyst at Jupiter, finally checked Vonage out and has officially caught the bug like the rest of us using VOIP….
The features are amazing. I get caller ID, Call Waiting and Simultaneous Ring (so my cell phone rings along with the Vonage phone and I can direct calls to either voice mail). Best [...]

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From Steve Jurvetson…
From the local demos of Longhorn, it seems to me that OS X is the Longhorn preview. As far as I can tell, Microsoft is hoping to do a subset of OS X and bundle applications like iPhoto. Am I missing something?
It seems that the need to use a Microsoft operating system will [...]

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Maybe it’s just me, but I always notice small details that are out of place in ads… like the Mac browser window on the PC, which was left in by the creative department, or take the new print campaign for Verizon Wireless’ VZEmail with Wireless Sync which features a man sitting in his car clearly [...]

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Om points to an piece at The Unofficial Apple Weblog which gripes about Skype. I don’t really agree with much Greg Scher had to say so here’s what I started to post as a comment until I realized I was writing more than enough for a real post…
Greg -
I think you are a [...]

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Nice quick thought piece from Jeremy Allaire over at PaidContent…
Jeremy believes and I agree that soon we will see new models for content distribution based on models and systems being developed now through blogs, aggregators and subscription services. It’s already becomhg very easy to subscribe to audio content through things like iPodder, which download [...]

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Herb Greenberg over at CBS MarketWatch, doesn’t think too much of the Netflix / TiVO partnership and has a fair bit of information that seems to sour the deal rather than make it seem as sweet as you might have thought.
In the hoopla over a possible linkup between Netflix and TiVO, something appears to have [...]

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Andy at VOIP Watch notes that Skype has now expanded their offering to officially support the Pocket PC over Wifi and that SkypeOut is fully supported as well so you can make calls to other Skype users just as easily as you can to mobile or landlines.
Andy is actually fortunate to be learning of all [...]

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Last night I decided to tempt the fates and update both my email client and browser to the latest nightly builds… For whatever reason every so often I just get the urge to push things and this time I was very happy to find that both nightlies for Thunderbird and Firefox were nicely enhanced.
Junk messages [...]

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It’s not what you might think from the title of this post… the format has been long gone for consumers. This is about the INDUCE act which seeks to block things like TiVO, your iPod and many other technological advances in how we choose to consume media.
The Betamax ruling is the only thing that [...]

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I was just sent a link to Pentagon Strike which is both disturbing and angering… We are coming up on the 3rd anniversary of 9/11 and there are still entirely too many questions to be answered.
Keep in mind our current administration is way too busy with distraction and scare tactics to really give us [...]

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First of all, if you have not read the manual, I would strongly suggest you do so in order to take advantage of the application to it’s fullest. Marc Blank, the developer, has written a very user friendly piece and it’s included with every download — unless you’ve just been downloading the updated [...]

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I might not be a Blackberry user and I don’t think this charmer will get me to switch, but it sure gets enough right that Palm and others will need to seriously pay attention. The form factor is excellent, the predictive typing works and of course they’ve mastered behind the firewall email and calendar [...]

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Here’s what I think… Search has to work on more than a single platform.
As you may have heard, earlier this summer Yahoo! acquired FareChase, a travel search company. FareChase’s technology enables people to perform real-time searches against more than fifty travel sites.
Tonight we began testing this new travel search engine. It’s still in beta but [...]

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