Leave it to Google to launch an online resource for its third-party application providers that is clean, easy-to-use and informative.
Recombinant Communications
Genesys-Alcatel/Lucent Offer “No Name” Developer Resources
The main issue that both Genesys and Alcatel-Lucent was how the combined company will support third-parties.
VoIP over 3G on the iPhone: It’s a Matter of Policy
Take heart Skype, Fring, Truphone and all other IP-Telephony service providers. Apple (and I assume AT&T) have finally approved a VoIP-over-3G application for the iPhone, iPod Touch and, yes, the iPad.
Apple’s Tablet, an Empty Slate, Will Be Huge!
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.
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.
Shopping Across Channels: A Survey of Customer Preferences
Featured Research In both preference and practice, people have established personal hierarchies surrounding the channels through which they carry out conversations with selected vendors. An Opus Research survey of roughly 1,000 respondents shows the order in which they turn to… Read More ›
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.