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.
Recombinant Communications
Five 9’s? Fuggedaboutit!
In this post I launch a new theme in support of Recombinant Communications by talking about a concept that should be left behind – if it hasn’t been totally abandoned already. That is the “ideal” of “Five 9’s”.
It’s Official: Nuance is Buying SpinVox for $66 Million in Cash, Plus Stock
Nuance has acquired SpinVox to “accelarate its voice to text business.” According to the release the transaction was worth $102 million with a third of that coming in Nuance common stock.
2010: Taking Recombinant Communications “Over The Top”
“Over the top” (OTT) is gaining momentum as the “term of art” for value-added Voice over IP (VoIP) transport networks. In rapid succession we’ve seen Avaya contemplating a relationship with Skype, Telefonica’s European wireless subsidiary 02 purchase JaJah and most recently Mark Plakias at Orange pointed me to a “Flash-to-VoIP” service, calling it an “OTT cocktail of Flash and Jingle-to-SIP gateway technology + carrier.”
Fear No Google: Or What to Do As the Sultan of Search Morphs into a Phone Company
Featured Research Google continues to impress fans and pundits with its VoIP-based utilities (Google Voice), multimedia instant messaging client (Google Talk), branded DNS, mobile OS, scads of “dark fiber” and now, reportedly, a phone of its own. Incumbent carriers and… Read More ›
The Recombinant Avaya: Closes on Nortel Enterprise Systems; Closing in on Skype?
This is a banner day for Avaya. After five months, its proposed acquisition of Nortel ES has finally closed. Now it is apparently thinking of Skype.
Recombinant Communications Comes to the Car, Courtesy of Ford Sync
At January’s CES, Ford Motor Company will showcase a set of voice activated services that are the product of an open API for third-party developers.
New iPhone App Leverages HTML5 Rather Than “Going Native”
NextStop leverages HTML5 and mobile Safari, rather than the ‘native iPhone’ application environment to deliver new mobile service.
Verizon Shrink Wraps Cisco Collaboration for Small/Medium Businesses
Cisco Systems is working with Verizon Business to offer small and medium sized businesses a cloud-based way to implement its suite of collaboration services.
Comverse HUB Landing a Number of New Carrier Contracts
In a “flash from the past” moment, long-time voice processing platform provider Comverse Technologies has been winning a number of new contracts that put its Voice HUB platform deeply into the incumbent telco service delivery infrastructure.