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Thanks to a tip from Andy, I just learned about a very cool new Gizmo service!
Approximately 11% of US telephones, including mobile numbers and land lines from carriers such as Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile, etc., are connected via VoIP. Working with telecom partners we are now making it possible to dial these numbers without going [...]

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I had a great conversation this week with SightSpeed CEO, Peter Csarty on the launch of their business conferencing product.

Sightspeed is taking a very unique and aggresive stance in realtime business communications with this update. If you’ve worked in a larger company you may have seen a Polycom (or similar) video conference [...]

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Walt Mossberg has a great piece (Free My Phone!) up on All Things D, which is a must read for anyone even remotely interested in the mobile industry.

While he’s not saying anything that we (you gentle reader) have not heard or discussed, to hear it from someone with as much consumer clout as Walt Mossberg [...]

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SMS Text News cover a piece on Nokia and Avaya’s FMC solution…

Avaya and Nokia today announced the next phase of their strategic collaboration with a solution that provides users of Nokia Eseries business devices with one number access and advanced enterprise telephony capabilities as they travel across private Wi-Fi and public mobile networks. With a [...]

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I was able to speak with Alistair Campbell, the CTO of Truphone earlier this week and am excited by what lies ahead for the iPhone as well as TruPhone in general. For starters, you should check the video out at Andy Abramson’s blog that I linked to last night. It’s a bit blurry [...]

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Oliver Starr rocking some sweet news via Blognation!!
To say the application isn’t yet ready for prime time would be a pretty major understatement as it currently requires the use of terminal on the iPhone to tell the iPhone to use its on-board SIP stack to place the call over WiFi instead of via the [...]

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I spoke with Dennis Peng yesterday from Ooma about the sound quality issues I’ve been having and we are pretty sure the issue is related to the connection to my D-Link DGL-4100 Router. Apparently some devices have been created a buzz or hum on the line and I happen to have one. To [...]

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I received a PhoneGnome (PGE2) yesterday and was able to unbox and set it up today. I’m still sorting through the options online, but my initial impressions are very good. As you can see in the video below, the box itself is a somewhat standard looking piece of gear. This is not [...]

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I called Ooma and discussed the issues I’d reported earlier and have since been issued a replacement Hub device. I’m amazed at the number of people interested in this topic (Home VOIP) and am thinking things have matured considerably since my last foray a few years ago.

With the new box in place [...]

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We are a couple of weeks in with Ooma and there are a few rather annoying things I’d like to report.

About 80 - 90% of the calls we receive and 10% of the calls we make have an audible buzzing background sound and make it very difficult to hear the other party. The sound [...]

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So far so good with the Ooma today… Call quality seems clear and no one has commented that we sound any different which has happened on occasion with previous home VOIP services.

Only one glitch which was when I accidentally disconnected my sister-in-law by placing the call on hold. When my wife went to [...]

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I received the Ooma today which I initially discussed on my podcast, the GearTech Update.

In the box were both the Hub and Scout which was a nice surprise as the Scout is sold separately or so I thought when I first read about this. I am not sure whether the initial seeds [...]

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“Essentially, what the T-Mobile has done is delivered the first consumers UMA platform using the same phone to make calls over a cellular network outside of the home and leveraging consumers WiFi and Broadband connections at home. To that end, there are two hardware components to T-Mobile’s offering. First is a phone that can work [...]

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I woke up to discover (to be confirmed) via Techcrunch that Google has acquired GrandCentral for $50 Million. I’m a GrandCentral happy customer and am psyched to see this news. Combining GrandCentral with my existing use of the Google Suite will just make connections that much stronger.

Congratulations Grand Central!

Technorati Tags:
Marketing, VOIP, GrandCentral, Google

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T-Mobile used to be cool. They were one of the first carriers in the US to offer the opportunity to use unlocked phones and they also were very early in WiFi deployments, tested Dual-Mode Services and even invested in VOIP company JahJah — Amazingly this coolness has been lost and while the left hand [...]

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I just updated the Gizmo client on my N95 (actually updated on my N800 as well) and have to say it’s very slick. You can add contacts from AIM and MSN with a coming soon on Jabber, Yahoo and iChat. I love that it’s integrated with my phonebook which means I only have [...]

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I’m not quite as travel-intensive these days but reading Andy’s post on Working Anywhere got me thinking about some past experiences and frustrations. Reflecting back across the past few years, I can recall many times when hotel “broadband” was difficult to connect to or even impossible. I’ve had wireless only rooms that can’t [...]

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I’m not quite as travel-intensive these days but reading Andy’s post on Working Anywhere got me thinking about some past experiences and frustrations. Reflecting back across the past few years, I can recall many times when hotel “broadband” was difficult to connect to or even impossible. I’ve had wireless only rooms that can’t [...]

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Hard to see how this won’t work. I hope other VOIP providers follow… I can’t really see Michael Robertson sitting idle, letting Jajah get an edge over Gizmo.
It seems Jajah’s Mobile Web service will allow iPhone and smartphone owners to make these calls from within the mobile’s built-in web browser to any number in [...]

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Great news for MuniWireless and for VOIP — and also highly relevant to the MuniWireless event I am currently attending…
The Federal Communications Commission has lifted one barrier to wider VoIP use, ruling late last week that rural telephone companies must allow VoIP calls from other carriers to connect to their local lines. Regulators in Nebraska [...]

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