Smith On VoIP

This just came through on my Twitter feed.
Seems fellow blogger and Voice 2.0 entrepreneur Pat Phelan has partner with a number of other companies to release TwitterFone a speak to text service that allows Twitters to “speak their Tweets”. According to the press release issued today,
“Twitterfone improves upon Twitter by allowing us to make […]

Pal Alec Saunders sent me a note a minute ago about breaking news from JAJAH.
It seems that the voice 2.0 provider has signed up their 10 millionth customer. Now, I know what having 60,000 customers is like, but 10 million! That’s a serious customer base.
In addition to news about their 10 millionth customer, JAJAH has […]

No this is not an April fools joke.
Tech Crunch is reporting that they are hearing rumors that Google is in talks with Skype and the flavor of those talks is acquisition/high-level partnership.
This is certainly interesting and definitely has some legs. After all eBay is still pretty clueless on how to realize the full promise of […]

Pal Cory Andrews sent this one of to me this morning.
Seems the latest and “greatest” new Asterisk based platform is about to be released. It is called WorxBox.
According to the site, which is still incomplete, the goal of the Worxbox® project is to provide a production quality Open-Source Unified Communications Server that’s easy to build, […]

Word on the street is that the investors behind PulverMedia, TICC, has decided to shut down the company.
PulverMedia, which just recently announced the VON Media Group during the Spring VON show, now looks to be the potential “out” for Jeff Pulver and crew. The VON Media Group consists of: VON Magazine; vonmag.com; the von:focus […]

If you are a hardware fan like I am, there are a few cool new things out.

Linksys WIP310 - This a new SIP based WiFi phone from Linksys. It comes with a slick color screen and it 802.11/g compliant.
SwitchVox AA60 Appliance - Digium owned SwitchVox announced their new SwitchVox appliance which will replace their tower […]

A few weeks ago I posted 11 reasons the iPhone is the worst cellphone I have ever owned.
I am not writing you today to retract those statements. I still think the iPhone is the worst cellphone I have used since the early 2000’s, but with news that Apple is okay with third party developers releasing […]