This week we’ve seen both the release of a new version of Skype—Skype 4.0 Beta 1 for Windows initial release - Skype Garage—and a preview version of Twhirl that includes Seesmic playback—Seesmic Blog: Play Seesmic videos in Twhirl client—while they haven’t been connected previously, that’s exactly what I’m going to do.
Looking at the new Skype, […]
Take one telco platform, and in a Contact Manager-CRM system, add a couple APIs, mix and you get… That’s up to you, actually. Late Feb the folks at Lypp announced a contest to take the Highrise and Lypp APIs and make something cool. The original opening date was April 1, but because of changes to […]
Canadian start up iotum, who got some serious funding in late November, has a nifty app for Facebook that lets you make free conference calls. Of course what’s a sweet conference call without being able to record it? Okay a meeting, but if you can record a call, then it can become a podcast or […]
Nothing like disruptive technology to disrupt yet another high-profit marketplace. Today’s victim is the wireless long-distance market where carriers are charging subscribers exorbitant prices that tower over LD rates on landline phones. Coming to the rescue of consumers everywhere is Vancouver-based EQC Communications, which just unveiled EQO Mobile, a service that “lets users make international […]
Even though VoIP has been all the rage over the past two or three years, several Canadian carriers (SaskTel, Telus, Manitoba Tel) have stayed out of the market due to concerns about the regulatory environment that favoured cable rivals and independents such as Vonage. With the federal government recently giving carriers the freedom to […]
Ottawa-based FirstHand Technologies, which makes technology to enhance the capabilities of smartphones and PDAs, has been named to FierceVoiP’s First 15 list. “FierceVoIP congratulates FirstHand Technologies on being named as one of the Fierce15,” said Dan Rosenbaum, editor of FierceVoIP. “By bringing mobile phones into the enterprise, FirstHand helps realize the promise of fixed-mobile convergence.” […]
Hullo made a splash earlier this week with the launch of a new VOIP service with all kinds of bells and whistles such as the ability to conference call and do find-me services. For everthing you’d want to know about Hullo, check out Alec Saunders’ blog post. Hullo has been in beta for some time […]
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Written by Tris Hussey [email] for b5media.
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