IBM’s Lotus-branded software has long had hooks into the social realm with products like Connections (a variant of Lotus Notes/Domino), Sametime and Quickr.
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8×8 Connect on Facebook: Nice Try! But There Are Some Issues
What caught the eye of the digirati at ITExpo was a Facebook app called 8×8 Connect, which was introduced on the second day of the conference.
IfbyPhone Buys CloudVox: Tight Coupling with Asterisk in the Cloud
With the acquisition of three-month-old CloudVox, Chicago-based IfbyPhone takes a formal step to rationalizing the Recombinant Communications ecosystem by closely linking its library of robust voice applications and tools with a cloud-based instantiation of Asterisk’s “open source” call processing software.
Voxeo Acquires ClackPoint: Provider of “Collaboration Spaces”
Web-based conferencing has a new construct: Collaboration Spaces. The originator of Collaboration Spaces, ClackPoint, now has a new owner: Voxeo.
VoxBone Saw a Doubling in VoIP Traffic on its Network in 2009
VoIP carrier VoxBone issued this press release that validates our view that a growing number of businesses are building their communications solutions on IP-telephony backbones with well-defined API’s.
Opus Research at ITExpo and the Cloud Computing Summit
For followers of Recombinant Communications (RC), I strongly recommend that you register for and attend the Cloud Communications Summit @ITEXPO, organized by Thomas Howe’s Light & Electric Company.
Microsoft’s Speech Czar Describes the “Speech At Microsoft” Group
Zig Sarafin describes Microsoft’s many initiatives around speech and the Natural User Interface (NUI).
AT&T in the Age of Ma Google (Part 1): The Lobbying Effort
While it has always been a master of manipulating public policy, AT&T’s lobbyists have gone the extra mile (or perhaps the “last mile”) in the past week by filing comments proposing that the FCC develop guidelines for killing off POTS.
Ford Turns Cars Into Open Platforms for Recombinant Mobile Speech Apps
In a keynote at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) Ford CEO Alan Mulally claimed that his company is modeling itself after the consumer electronics industry.
Google’s Nexus One Launches With Voice Enabled Everything
Not surprisingly (since it is first-and-foremost a phone), integration of voice command and dictation was one of the major areas of innovation for the new Nexus One from Google.