Nature abhors a vacuum. Application developers, on the other hand, stand ready to revel in it as the Apple tablet (whatever the trade name) is getting ready for its close-up.
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Google Voice Offered Through Mobile Browsers to iPhone and Palms
TechCrunch’s Erick Schonfeld reported that Google is about to launch a mobile Web site that extends the capabilities of Google Voice to the Apple iPhone and Palm Pre/Pixi. While he calls it an “end run” around Apple’s governance of the… Read More ›
IBM-Lotus’ “Project Vulcan” is Enterprise-based Recombinant Communications
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.
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.