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- VoIP
- Voice Over IP A digital telephone service that uses the public Internet as well as private backbones instead of the traditional telephone network. Many companies, including Vonage, 8x8...
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- Analysts: pure play VoIP companies have "no future"
- If you thought that the prospects for Vonage and other "pure play," non-bundled VoIP services were bleak, just wait until you read analysts comments contained in a newly published piece by Kelly Teal on xchange magazine's xchange online site.First, Kelly makes the point that margins for voice services have been...
- Tags: Predictions and Observations, Vonage
- Blog posts 2007-05-31
- Vonage: Verizon patent suit could bankrupt us
- Vonage said the Verizon patent suit could force the VOIP provider into bankruptcy. Vonage made that statement in its annual report filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. While the Verizon patent suit was expected to be a risk factor for Vonage bankruptcy goes...
- Tags: Vonage, General, VOIP, Verizon
- Blog posts 2007-04-17
- Vonage a victim of "the long tail?"
- You may have heard of the notion of the "long tail." Thats the principle which describes how a collection of products or services with comparably little demand can collectively account for a proportionately larger market share than the big players. Yet from reading remarks by Forrester Research analyst...
- Tags: Vonage, News, General
- Blog posts 2007-04-12
- Vonage replaces CEO, still rudderless
- Perhaps Michael Snyder stepped down as CEO of Vonage because he realized he wasnt the best executive for the job. But naming company founder Jeffrey Citron as interim CEO--even for a short time--may not be the best fix either. Why?...
- Tags: General, Wired & Wireless, Web Technology, Vonage, VOIP, Telecommunications, IP Telephony
- Blog posts 2007-04-12
- Vonage customers: Finding a new VOIP provider may be tricky
- A federal judge basically kicked Vonage in the wind pipe today leaving 2.2 million lines hanging. The news: Vonage cant accept any new customers while it is still infringing on Verizons patents. This ruling doesnt hit me directly since Im a customer, but I also realize that Vonages business model--which...
- Tags: Vonage, VOIP, Telecommunications, IP Telephony, General
- Blog posts 2007-04-06
- Vonage: Is there a future?
- VOIP giant Vonage reported its fourth quarter results and analysts are teeing off on the company. Vonage is still churning a good chunk of customers, spending too much on marketing and serving up a disappointing outlook. The good news: Vonage...
- Tags: General, Telecommunications, VOIP, Vonage
- Blog posts 2007-02-15
Additional Resources
- VMworld is bringing out the vendors
- Planning for an announcement is a challenging task. Large suppliers know that just about whatever they do will be picked up by the media and presented to the world. Smaller vendors have a much more difficult time getting heard. So, picking the right place and time for an announcement is...
- Tags: Supplier, Announcement, VMworld, Channel Management, Marketing, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- Is Microsoft is putting Windows 7 on a diet?
- Is Microsoft is putting Windows 7 on a diet?How did we not see this?This is brilliant on Microsoft's behalf. They do get rid of the anti-trust sentiments at least the plausible ones and still have their share in the market.Now, don't misunderstand me. It's going to take a lot more...
- Tags: Operating systems, SECURITY, iTune, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, diet, Microsoft Windows 7, antitrust
- Discussion threads 2008-09-04
- The power of standard protocols
- I've spent the past few months as the primary developer at a very small company. An important technology to this company is Instant Messaging, as it plays an essential part in our approach to unified messaging. This has meant that I have had to build, in-house, our...
- Tags: IM, Jabber, Protocol, XMPP, Instant Messaging, Internet, Online Communications, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- Voicent Predictive Dialer (exe)
- Voicent Agent Dialer is a predictive dialer and semi auto dialer combined. Voicent Predictive Dialer assists marketing or sales people for telemarketing campaigns. Predictive dialing supports VOIP through Skype and remote agents. Automatic dialing can play audio messages, transfer calls, and record conversations, all by the press of a key....
- Tags: Dialer, Voicent Communications, Voicent Agent Dialer, Voicent Predictive Dialer, Telemarketing, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Marketing Research
- Software downloads 2008-09-04
- Five reasons Chrome will take over the world
- Five reasons Chrome will take over the worldFive reasons Chrome will take over the worldYou know what ZDNet needs? More articles about Chrome! 12 over the last 24 hours just isn't enough so why not add to that number.Chrome isn't taking over anything because its terribly broken. It doesn't render...
- Tags: Development tools, Web browsers, chrome, Chrome, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-09-03
- What's Chrome for? Ain't it obvious?
- What's Chrome for? Ain't it obvious?Really?"I think we all know what the answer is, but we’re afraid to say it — Google is taking an entry directly from the Microsoft playbook: Embrace and Extend."Really? By basing it on open source projects? ;-)Google is going after the platform, the same way...
- Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), cloud computing, Web browsers, Desktops, Chrome, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-09-02
- Google Chrome: Steal this browser
- Google Chrome: Steal this browserMemory Usage not commendableFirefox 3 uses lesser memory than Google Chrome. The base browser itself uses about 75MB and with 5 tabs opened, the total memory usage is around 200MB. Firefox with the same number of tabs is less than 100MB. Makes me wonder how efficient...
- Tags: Web browsers, Google Chrome, Web browser, Google Inc., Mozilla Firefox
- Discussion threads 2008-09-02
- Adding voice to Second Life
- Joe Miller, VP of platforms and technology development at Linden Lab, describes how users of Second Life have consumed more than 8 billion minutes using the company's VoIP software. by Administrator
- Tags: Second Life, Voice, Telephony, Telecommunications, VOIP, Networking, Administrator
- Blog posts 2008-09-02
- Linden Lab VP, platforms & technology: Joe Miller
- Joe Miller, VP of platforms and technology development at Linden Lab talks to CNET's Dan Farber about the challenges in developing dynamic and reliable backend operations for the 3D virtual world of Second Life. Miller also discusses how they're incorporating new hi-tech conferencing tools for business users such as VoIP...
- Tags: VP, Streaming Video, Linden Lab, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Digital Video, VOIP, Telecommunications, Internet, Personal Technology, Networking, Administrator
- Blog posts 2008-09-02
- Google to launch browser to battle IE; Is Firefox a target or tag-team partner?
- Updated: Google will launch a Web browser called Chrome that will take on Microsoft's Internet Explorer and apparently Mozilla's Firefox, which the search giant essentially funds. In an odd leak, Google sent Google Blogoscoped a comic book outlining the technology in its Chrome browser. The leak was...
- Tags: Google Inc., Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Web Browser, Philipp Lenssen, Web Browsers, Internet, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-01
- Comcast's Web limits: Saving bandwidth or stifling innovation?
- The first computer I ever bought had a whopping six-gigabyte hard drive inside - far more storage capacity than anyone might have ever dreamed of using some ten years ago. Back then, no one was really downloading music or uploading digital photos, let alone streaming video or placing VoIP phone...
- Tags: Innovation, Web, Bandwidth, Comcast Corp., Internet, Storage, Telecommunications, Hardware, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-08-28
- Logitech ClearChat PC Wireless Headset
- Wireless keyboards, mice, and printers have been around for years, but headphones and headsets are fairly new to the cordless party. Logitech's entry into the fray is the ClearChat PC Wireless Headset. Unlike the Creative Digital Wireless Gaming Headset HS-1200, which is targeted at gamers, Logitech sees the ClearChat as...
- Tags: Logitech, ClearChat PC Wireless Headset, headset, Creative HS-1200
- Product reviews 2008-08-28
- Steve Jobs death has been greatly exaggerated
- News outlet Bloomberg gave Apple fans and investors a huge scare late yesterday when it accidentally published an incomplete version of Steve Jobs obituary over its wire service. Although the service quickly retracted the release, it's an eerily-fascinating read complete with XXXX marks for the cause and...
- Tags: Steve Jobs, Apple Inc., Corporate Governance, Venture Capital, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, Financing Startups, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-08-28
- Patent suit alert: This time, Google and Verizon on the hot seat
- Patent suit alert: This time, Google and Verizon on the hot seatgood for him - stop patent pirates! and "patent" deformdoes this not seem like an appropriate action for an inventor to take? if i copy your article without your permission, do I get a pass? probably not because you...
- Tags: Litigation, Google Inc., Verizon Communications Inc., patent, inventor
- Discussion threads 2008-08-27
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