So Skype have embraced the SIP world, including integration into Asterisk. It had to happen as there was no other way Skype was going to make significant inroads into the business market (see my previous blog on Ebay selling Skype). So now it’s possible, from within your VoIP-enabled PBX, to make a receive calls to [...]
A few days ago Ebay sold a majority shareholding in Skype to a group of investors. They made a (relatively speaking) modest profit on their initial investment if you take writedowns into account, which a number of analysts have criticised, implying that they should have made a lot more money out of such an apparently [...]
If you’ve been keeping an eye on the VoIP market, or Google, or Apple/iPhone, then you have almost certainly seen the kerfuffle over the release of a Google Voice iPhone app and it’s subsequent removal from the iPhone AppStore. If not then the web is full of this week’s hot story, and a quick seach [...]
There a lot of chat in the VoIP world at the moment about Nimbuzz, which is the latest in a lengthening line of mobile/cell VoIP-enablement software packages. Nimbuzz seems to be well thought-out, with an impressive range of gateways, including Skype. Will it succeed? Possibly, although it’s early in the hype curve at the moment [...]
The speculation looks like it was right on the mark, according to TMCnet. So while we’re awaiting the official last rights, it really looks like it’s RIP RP. In many ways this can be seen as the right thin for Microsoft to do. They had a pretty significant overlap in functionality with OCS that meant [...]
Interesting news over at bMighty.com Back when Microsoft announced that it was entering the SME VoIP market with the Response Point product, I will admit to a shiver of apprehension. The mighty Microsoft machine has more than once entered a market, grabbed significant market share, and through tight integration with Windows and/or Office, made its [...]
From VentureVoIP comes news that Dell are going to supply SME’s with Fonality’s Asterisk-based VoIP system – PBXtra. Details of the arrangement are sketchy at the moment, but already there are murmerings of doubt amidst the obvious conclusion that this is a strong deal for Fonality and potentially for the SME market worldwide, 35 million [...]
Some time ago the Skype network suffered a 48-hour outage, rather embarrassing for a company offering a service to individuals, an absolute catastrophe for a company hoping to break into the business VoIP market. The one over-riding need every business has from its phone system is that when you go to place a call, it [...]
An interesting news item on the Teleappliant site here. Of course, Teleappliant aren’t the only company to offer an Asterisk-based PBX
Just read an article that describes the new Skype Prime service and I must say that my gut feel is this is a mistake on Skype’s part. To summarise, you need to pay Skype for the privilege of charging other Skype users who call you. So the big advantage of using Skype in the first [...]
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