iPhone Ruined In Canada! iPhone 3G At That!
New iPhone 3G and Canadian Provider Rogers have spurred up controversy and a web site called ruined iPhone asking Apple to step in. Here is a video! Enjoy Canadian telecom freedom.
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Monday, July 07, 2008
Laughter Chain From Skype Should Bring A Smile To Your Face
I like to laugh as it relieves stress and tension that we gather at various occasions and incidents that are not really nice. Perhaps it is a call that made you feel so. If you are a Skype user, the new service Skype Laughter chain may help you to laugh it out right at your desk. And if you are in a cubicle or area in the office you may have the viral effect that Skype is also trying to gain with this product. You may have a happy office!
So all of you who think that I only have bad things to say about Skype, like Uninstall Skype, This should prove otherwise.
So it is even more attractive if you use, LOL (Laugh Out Loud) acronym on the web. Now you can do it really true to the meaning of LOL, if your collegue or friend also has a Skype Video connection. Laughter will bring us closer together no matter what language you speak – it’s a language we all understand and everyone loves a good laugh. So Laugh in English, Laugh in French, Laugh in Dutch, Laugh in Japanese (now I ran out of languages I know) and laugh in Swaihili, laugh in Hindi or Just laugh! I am sure you will make someone laugh.
I like the idea of this type of advertising that lead to creation of this Laughter Chain to promote Skype's free video calling feature. The other thing is you can make as many free video calls as you want. Seeing the person you’re talking to makes a big difference, you can share expressions.
Learn all about free video calling
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Create Telephony Mashups And Win At BroadSoft Xtended Voice Mashup Contest,
Gaithersburg, md, July 8, 2008 — BroadSoft Inc., the leading provider of VoIP application software, today announced the BroadSoft Xtended Voice Mashup Contest to create telephony mashups that provide new, valuable services for businesses and consumers.
Running through Sept. 2, the Xtended Voice Mashup Contest challenges Web 2.0 and telecom developers to combine the multitude of BroadWorks® VoIP features with other applications, including customer relationship management, business collaboration and social networking. Telephony applications such as SMS, voicemail, fax and mobile clients also qualify for submission. Developers will have access to the Xtended Services Interface (Xsi) RESTful API during the contest.
Developers will compete for the top three prizes, which are valued at $15,500, $5,500 and $3,500. A panel of experts will select the winners, who will demo their mashups to hundreds of telecom executives from around the globe at the BroadSoft Connections 2008 executive users conference, held in Phoenix, Arizona from Oct. 5-8. Noted author Tim O’Reilly, who is credited with coining the phrase “Web 2.0,” is the event keynote speaker.
The contest winners will be announced at the Web 2.0 Expo New York 2008, which takes place Sept. 16-19.
”BroadSoft is committed to bringing voice to Web 2.0,” said Leslie Ferry, Vice President of Marketing for BroadSoft. “This contest will spur the creation of even more innovative telephony mashups using the new REST-based API. Our customers are eager to find new services to offer to their millions of enterprise and residential end-users.”
The prizes are:
- First Place – $5,000 in cash, and an all-expenses-paid trip to BroadSoft Connections 2008 with a free Solutions ShowCase booth (valued at $10,500).
- Second Place – $2,000 in cash, and an all-expenses-paid trip to BroadSoft Connections with a complimentary pass (valued at $3,500).
- Third Place – $1,000 in cash, and a complimentary pass to BroadSoft Connections 2008 (valued at $2,500).
“I was able to sell my app to a major service provider in the U.S.,” said Joseph Farrar, president of JoeDeveloper.NET, who created the Click2Message application that integrates BroadWorks calling features with the Facebook social-networking site. “By working with BroadWorks through the Xtended program, I have access to a global pool of service providers who could try out my mashup. For the opportunity to sell more mashups to service providers, I will definitely be entering the Xtended Voice Mashup Contest.”
“The applications on the Xtended Marketplace have already given us a competitive edge,” said Dave Gilbert, president of SimpleSignal. “By offering the salesforce.com mashup—the Unified Connector for Salesforce—we were able to win a contract over a Tier 1 competitor. Xtended and voice mashups are the obvious next evolutionary phase of telephony services.”
BroadSoft Xtended Marketplace, the first of its kind for the telecommunications industry, was launched in March to drive the integration of voice with Web 2.0 technologies. The initiative has spurred the creation of voice mashups with leading business and consumer applications, including Facebook, WebEx, Lotus Notes, ACT! by Sage and GotVoice. Newly created mashups are available to BroadSoft's nearly 300 service providers in 59 countries.
For rules and prize details for the Xtended Voice Mashup Contest, visit http://developer.broadsoft.com/contest.
The contest is free to enter. Developers can register at http://developer.broadsoft.com/contest.
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Saturday, July 05, 2008
Google Talk voicemail? What Do You Do With It?
Sometimes you need to get in touch with your friend or friends but invariably they may have walked out from the desk or very busy (palying one of those games) and do not want to be disturbed. So chat is off but all is not lost if you have the googletalk client. You can leave a leave a voicemail!
Google Talk allows you to leave a voicemail for any of your contacts, whether they're signed in to Google Talk or not. Your meesage can last up to 10 minutes, and your friend willl be able to retrieve the message from their email account at any time. You can even send a message straight to their voicemail without first ringing them.To leave a message, call a contact and let it ring - voicemail will pick up after 4 rings. Or, click the down arrow from any profile card or chat window to access the options menu and select Send voicemail.
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Jajah To Provide Call Termination and Other Backbone Services To Gizmo5
JAJAH, one of the managed services provider in IP-telecommunications, about whom we have posted articles since it's inception, announced that its platform has been selected by Gizmo5, a widely used free mobile and computer-based VoIP service, to provide handling of all call termination for Gizmo5 as well as additional tailored services including customer care and billing.
Softphones, that people use to make IP-telephone calls (VoIP Calls) directly from Internet-connected computers or mobile devices, and are increasingly being used as an alternative to landline phones by telecommuters and mobile users. The softphone market is poised for significant growth as competition heats up and global unified communications take hold. The ability to connect a handset to a computer via devices such as Bluetooth Headsets, USB Phones as well as wireless phones have made softphones a part of regular computer application, just like internet browser. Mobile users just use their phones, just like any other phone call.
A recent Frost & Sullivan report finds that the percentage of the total VoIP IP Telephony market that softphones represent will increase from 5 percent to 20 percent by 2014. Softphone sales rose to 416,000 units, worth $18.9 million in 2007, a 30 percent increase in dollar terms over the previous year.
Congratulations Jajah and Gizmo5.
The Jajah announcement could be found here.
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