Tag Archives | SquawkBox

BlackBerry Playbook: RIM’s Infrastructure for New User Experiences for Tablets

By on April 19, 2011

Yesterday I wrote about coverage of the BlackBerry PlayBook launch, partially inspired by three pages of coverage in last weekend’s Globe and Mail Report on Business. But I left with the question of whether competitive comparisons with the iPad are valid or can the PlayBook provide new market directions for tablets. Certainly on content and [...]

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iotum’s Calliflower Conference Call Service Adds Skype Access

By on January 21, 2010

Since its launch about two years ago, I have blogged several times about iotum’s CalliFlower Conference Calling service. More significantly I have used it for several conference calls of up to 25 people, including a couple that ran for over two hours. While permitting up to several hundred participants into a conference call, Calliflower’s primary [...]

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OnState Virtual PBX: Taking On and Managing All Callers

By on January 5, 2009

OnState’s Virtual PBX incorporates Skype as a contributor to lower cost, yet more productive, small business communications management activities. A mainstay for communications in any office with at least a few employees is the need to accept incoming calls, determine who is calling, what is their general need and getting the call to the right [...]

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CaliiFlower Conference Call Training Videos

CaliiFlower Conference Call Training Videos

By on September 23, 2008

When Skypecast was shut down at the end of August, I suggested three alternatives that can be considered as cost effective replacements for those serious about multi-party discussions. iotum CalliFlower serves as the host for the daily SquawkBox conference call discussing communications news of the day as well as featured guest interviews. (Full disclosure: I [...]

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Dan York: Skype’s 5 Years of Disruption

Dan York: Skype’s 5 Years of Disruption

By on August 29, 2008

OK, so it’s the fourth post this week where I’ve referenced Dan York. But over the two years I have known Dan I have to say he is, in my view, one of the most respected authorities on the technology behind today’s communications revolution. Yet he also understands the value of the user experience. In [...]

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SquawkBox Discusses Skype’s Fifth Anniversary

By on August 29, 2008

Over the past few months I have been a frequent participant on Alec Saunders’ daily SquawkBox conference call where several of those involved in following today’s communications and web developments will discuss topics of the day. Subjects for yesterday’s call were the impact of the Internet on this years U.S. President campaign and Skype’s fifth [...]

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Alternatives to Skypecasts

Alternatives to Skypecasts

By on August 29, 2008

While there has been lots of dismay about the discontinuation of Skypecasts (Skype’s blog posts: here and here), it had appeared for the past several months that the service just did not have the robustness to provide the reliability and quality of service that users would expect. Being a free service, it was obviously placing [...]

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Voxeo: A Textbook Case for Voice 2.0 and Telecom Partnering

By on August 25, 2008

When fellow blogger Dan York joined Voxeo Corporation last October, very few of us in the IP-based communications blogging space had heard of this rapidly growing service provider. Over the next few months, sometimes with Dan’s assistance, Voxeo has become a familiar name identified with a self-financed startup, a profitable business and a very large [...]

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The Reality of Convergence is Still Divergence.

By on August 6, 2008

I spent yesterday at a Nokia marketing event in Toronto and decided to only take my three mobile devices to see how I would deal with maintaining essential contacts and information flow (email, Twitter, Facebook, voice calls, web browsing) without having a full laptop available. The devices: a Blackberry 8820 (GSM/EDGE/WiFi), a Nokia N95 (WiFi [...]

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