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Windows Mobile Gets Tango, Skype Holds up the Wall

So much for making quick use of your $8.5 billion dollar investment Steve. Today Tango, one of the fastest growing communication services ever, announced that its service will be the first mobile video calling service available for the upcoming Windows Phone update “Mango” beating out Microsoft’s own mobile video calling service Skype. Not that this should come [...]

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Windows Mobile Gets Tango, Skype Holds up the Wall

Polycom SoundStation Duo

File this one under why didn’t this exist already. Today Polycom announced their latest conference phone offering, the SoundStation Duo, which marries VoIP and PSTN calling capabilities into one device. Polycom SoundStation Overview The Polycom Duo comes packed with all the industry leading features that you’ve come to expect from Polycom such as: SIP based, with support for today’s [...]

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Polycom SoundStation Duo

You, the Market and the Manufacturer

Everyone sees the world through a different lens. At no time has this fact struck me harder then at a recent partner event. The event was designed to bring channel partners from around the world into one room to learn and discuss the future of manufacturer’s product direction. Now any time you get folks from all parts [...]

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You, the Market and the Manufacturer

The Channel’s Problem Child

This is the third in a series on the VoIP equipment channel designed to educate, bring transparency and inspire change for the good of all channel members. You can read part one here and part two here. Wild Wild West. Or is it the world wide web? Eight years ago they were one in the same. At least [...]

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The Channel’s Problem Child

Hello, hello is anyone home?

That echo you hear is caused by the lack of posting. I haven’t been writing for a long time (unless copy, plans and emails count). Call it burnout (3,200 posts in four years). Call it lack of inspiration (lack of industry innovation). Call it what you want. I took a lengthy break. Now after a year of less than [...]

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Hello, hello is anyone home?

Cisco UMI: Coming to a business near you

Month’s ago most pundits torched UMI, Cisco’s high-end home telepresence offering. They said it was too expensive. They said no-one would pay $24.95/month for video calling. Oh and who were they supposed to call? Yesterday, while flushing Flip down the toilet Cisco announced that UMI would be rolled into their business telepresence unit. I guess the pundits were [...]

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Cisco UMI: Coming to a business near you

Hosted VoIP’s Worst Nightmare

The recent news of AT&T’s acquisition offer for T-Mobile USA got me thinking (and talking) about the small business voice space. The small business space is very unique. It’s very unique because every single business is different and is looking for different things out of their voice service. Two trends that have definitely emerged within space – [...]

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Hosted VoIP’s Worst Nightmare

The Under $100 Turf Wars

There’s a battle on the street folks. Hide yo’ momma. Hide yo’ daddy. Hide yo’ kids. The under $100 turf wars are on! It use to be that the only VoIP phones you could find under $100 came from Grandstream or some unheard of Chinese manufacturer. After all this VoIP technology was simply too “advanced” for it to [...]

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The Under $100 Turf Wars

$95.88 Isn’t Enough

$95.88. That’s the cost of a year’s worth of unlimited North America calling via Skype. Apparently that’s not enough. Skype now wants to monetize me by showing ads. Sure they’re not directly in your face. And one can understand advertising to FREE users. But why am I paying to be advertised to? This sort of feels like cable TV – [...]

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$95.88 Isn’t Enough

Top 5 Offerings Spotted At ITEXPO

Phew! What a show. For the first time in two and a half year I attended ITEXPO as an exhibitor. As usual, the TMCnet team did a great job in putting together the conference and expo. The show provided productive meetings, new business connections and even allowed for the closing of some deals It also provide [...]

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Top 5 Offerings Spotted At ITEXPO