Tag Archives | Pat Phelan

Pat Phelan Finds How Popular Skype Is, Really!

By on December 20, 2008

Today Ireland’s favorite communications entrepreneur, Pat Phelan, put up a post: “How Popular is Skype, really?” Shows the potential for both Skype and its (prospective) partners, should the new executive team be able to execute on a restructured Skype and a viable partner program. And it shows the relative magnitude of the challenge that Truphone, [...]

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Truphone for iPod Touch: Accessing Skype Contacts and Social Media

By on December 4, 2008

Over the past year one of the leading IP-based voice service offerings for low cost international calling from wireless smartphones has been Truphone whose service primarily runs over WiFi access points; Their more recently launched Truphone Anywhere service provides an option for making calls via 3G networks using a combination of the data channel and [...]

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Phweet – Ruthlessly Simplified Disintermediation

By on July 30, 2008

When I received this Twitter message earlier this afternoon: clicked on the embedded URL and immediately was listening in on a conversation involving not only Stuart Henshall but also David Beckemeyer of Televolution (producer of PhoneGnome – now known as the PhweetGeek), I found I was in for a most interesting conversation experience. Within minutes [...]

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VAPPS Rebrands Its Service: High Definition Conferencing

VAPPS Rebrands Its Service: High Definition Conferencing

By on April 24, 2008

In previous posts I have reviewed VAPPS, Inc.’s audio conferencing service and its recent relaunch to incorporate high definition (HD) voice. To the user it means that all participants calling into the VAPPS conference bridge from Skype will hear the other participants accessing the call via Skype at the full HD Voice bandwidth. Recently I [...]

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Skype’s New Calling Plans — The Coverage

Skype’s New Calling Plans — The Coverage

By on April 22, 2008

Yesterday’s announcement of new international calling plans available from Skype probably set a record for generating press traffic about Skype. Certainly my “:Skype” keyword feed in FeedDemon has been gone off the end. Most of the reports were simply rehashes of the original two press releases (Global and North America). But some bloggers’ observations are [...]

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