Using audience size as an indicator, WebRTC has definitely entered the “irrational exuberance” phase on anybody’s hype cycle.
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Busy, Busy Bandwidth.com Buys dash Carrier Services
Bandwidth.com has acquired dash Carrier Services for an undisclosed sum of money.
Asterisk SCF to Promote Large-Scale, Open Source Implementations of Cloud-based Telephony
Digium just took the wraps off of an open source development effort for a new version of Asterisk call processing software that has been quietly under development for a couple of years.
What’s Happening at BT-Ribbit?
Opus Research tries not to promulgate rumors, but I’ve heard from two different sources that BT, which acquired phone-app specialist Ribbit in late July 2008 for $105 million, has initiated some major changes in the organization.
Gmail’s “Call Phone” Feature: What took so long?
By now, the millions of calls originated by people using the “Call Phone” feature in Gmail has re-established the fact that people love to make free phone calls. The question in my mind is “What took so long for Google to introduce this feature?”
In U.S., Google Voice is Now “Open For All”… Release the Hounds!
Google has shed the last shred of exclusivity around its Web-based call management and messaging management mash-up (aka Google Voice).
Google Voice/Gmail Integration Is A Natural
This morning my RSS feed had a few pointers to a blog post which asserts that Google has already cobbled together its technologies to enable Gmail users to originate telephone calls.
Interactive Intelligence Offers Communications as a Service (CaaS)
Having survived (actually thrived) the IT deep freeze that was 2009, Interactive Intelligence has launched its “Spring Media Tour” with its cloud based CaaS (Communications as a Service) offering as its centerpiece. While major IP-based contact center rivals like Avaya^Nortel,… Read More ›
Google Buys Global IP Solutions
Greg Sterling , program director with Opus Research’s Internet2Go, has an interesting write-up over at Search Engine Land on Google’s acquisition of Global IP Solutions (GIPS). The $68 million cash acquisition of the San Francisco-based VOIP provider reaffirms Google has… Read More ›
RIM Reinforces Relevance With New MVS Offer
One of the most important offers from RIM is a retooled Voice over WiFi package called BlackBerry Mobile Voice System 5 (MVS 5).