Cloudspace is becoming a commodity that can be bought and sold on the “spot market.” That’s more true than ever with the introduction of real time auctions for “instances” in Amazon.com’s Elastic Cloud 2 (EC2).
Recombinant Telephony
Skype Expands Launch of SIP-based Beta to All Businesses
In response to demand from “nearly 10,000 companies” Skype has expanded the availability of its Skype for SIP “beta” service to all comers. Phil Wolff explains provides detail on the service in this post on Skype Journal. But the gist… Read More ›
Parkmobile Launches Voice-controlled Parking Controls in Grand Rapids, MI
Voice plays an important role in a new service, launched in Grand Rapid, MI, which enables mobile subscribers to use their wireless phones to pay for parking.
Lucyphone: A Web Services-based Virtual Hold
Today I was introduced to a new service called LucyPhone, which is a Web service charged with the simple task of helping callers to popular toll-free nubmers avoid being put on hold.
$10 Million Up For Grabs for Location-based Mash-Ups
Digital mapping giant NavteQ has attracted $10 million in sponsorships as prize money for developers that are into building location-based applications. The roster of sponsors now includes (alphabetically) Alcatel-Lucent, AtlasCT, DigitalGlobe, Imagination Technologies, Intel, Microsoft, and Mobile Distillery.
Chatter Flatters Facebook and Twitter
The product designers at Salesforce pay great homage to Facebook and Twitter by closely mimicking their design in a new service called “Salesforce Chatter”.
Microsoft’s Azure to Host SpeechCycle’s Rich Phone Apps
News breaking from the Microsoft Professional Developers’ Conference in southern California let it be known that “Rich Phone Apps” (RPAs) developed by SpeechCycle can be deployed in Microsoft’s cloud computing environment, called Azure.
Orange Brings Twitter and TV Together in Europe
French telecoms giant Orange and micro-blogging specialist Twitter have signed a deal that will make it possible for TV viewers in Western Europe to take advantage of a “tweet and you watch” service.
Auto-Discovery Key to Cisco’s New Enterprise Collaboration Features
During two-and-a-half days of briefings, Cisco executives exposed industry analysts, like myself, to the fact that the concept of “collaboration” embraces much more than “passing the ball” on WebEx or sharing presence information among employees and trading partners.
The Recombinant Telephony Ecosystem: Voice Mashups and the Telco API
Featured Research The idea behind Recombinant Telephony is relatively simple: splice together the basic materials of today’s communication technologies with new software elements to introduce new services that support customer requirements. A fast-growing community of technology providers, application developers and… Read More ›