Archive for August, 2007
Cubic at the Gates of Disruption
Pat Phelan at Cubic released their first press release yesterday and I think there are likely a few wireless carriers who are wondering what the &^%$ is going on.
Cubic was introduced to me through an industry colleague - Sean O'Mahony, who is now the Chief Commercial Officer at Cubic. Sean has an interesting history including [...]
Free Group Calling via Meebo on iPhone
I sent a Lypp alpha invite over to a friend of mine thinking he would have some fun testing our system before we released Lypp to private beta. What happened next was pretty damn cool.
On his iPhone he logged into his Gmail account and clicked on the invite link he got in his email. He [...]
Free Lypp Service
Lypp is a new calling service that uses IM and command line commands to create one-to-one calls and group calls. By sending a simple command from AIM, MSN, Yahoo, Jabber, Gtalk, or ICQ like "call 6045551212, 7035551212", users can create a quick group call. It will be launching in September. It will be Free.
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The New PubSub
Fellow Vancouver Voip veteran and buddy Ian Bell has reclaimed PubSub and will soon be launching a new FaceBook app. Ian is a very capable fellow and he is in good company with Lance Tracey joining as CEO.
I think Ian is doing the right thing in going after the Facebook crowd, the intelligent search capabilities [...]
Group Calls vs. Conference Calls
When we talk about conference calling pretty much everyone in the business world can relate. Picture a speaker phone (probably Polycom) in a board room with people speaking into it and voices coming out of it, fairly straightforward.
So why are we now calling it Group Calling? According to Wikipedia Group-calling is..
..similar to conference calling, is [...]
Gaboogie Embraces Open Source For New Mobile Group Calling and Conference Calling Solution
Ruby on Rails, Adhearsion and CentOS create launch pad for new mobile conferencing application.
Vancouver, Canada, August 1, 2007 - Gaboogie (www.gaboogie.com) announced today the integration of open-source Adhearsion v0.80 written in Ruby, leveraging the existing Ruby on Rails Gaboogie software engine running on CentOS Linux as the platform for a new Gaboogie Mobile offering.
Jay [...]
