Join Alec Saunders, vice President of Developer Relations and Ecosystem Development at BlackBerry for a discussion with BlackBerry VoIP app development expert Gurtej Sandhu and Chief Architect of Hookflash, Robin Raymond about supporting theWebRTC platform and the opportunity for developers in voice and communications in mobile. This was the promotional content for yesterday’s weekly VoIP [...]
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Truphone Joins the “Company Manager” Communications Offerings
With its announcement today that Truphone is offering a “company-wide” mobile access sharing program, Truphone joins Skype and PamFax in providing a centrally manageable communications offering that shares resources across employees and associates regardless of geography. According to the Truphone press release: Truphone today became the first mobile operator to offer shared international mobile service [...]
PamFax at BlackBerry Live: Free Trial Offer for Attendees
A few days ago I posted about PamFax for BlackBerry 10 and how it can become your total fax solution. With BlackBerry Live coming up this week, PamFax publisher PamConsult has put out a special offer for BlackBerry Live and BlackBerry Jam Americas attendees. I will be attending many of the sessions; I have already installed [...]
BlackBerry 10 & PamFax: Your Complete Fax Solution
Obligation-free PamFax for BlackBerry 10 turns your BlackBerry 10 into the only worldwide Fax solution you need. With the evolution of the Internet, including its email and online storage solutions, the need for sending and receiving documents using faxes has declined. Yet there are still several hundred million fax end points out there. While your [...]

Blaq for BlackBerry 10: The Power of BB10 Developer Platform in Practice
Blaq for BlackBerry PlayBook was a popular Twitter application that provided a few extra features beyond simply following a Twitter feed. It certainly went beyond the normal Twitter client; however, one had the feeling they could make some improvements (and have regularly put out updates). However, earlier this week we learned where its developer team, Kisai [...]
BlackBerry and Analysts: A Classical Misalignment of Interests
Yesterday BlackBerry, the company formerly known as Research in Motion, called the bluff of analysts who are trying to forecast their earnings and move share prices. However, the analysts’ interests are not at all aligned with BlackBerry’s interests, including goals, business plans and sales channel management. Analysts seek out short term results; a restructuring on [...]
Mocet Communicator: A Desktop Phone Proxy?
In today’s office, several items may occupy our physical desktop – a computer display (or two or three) and keyboard, writing tools, a blotter pad, a few books, a papers organizer, a radio and … a communications device (traditionally known as a “phone”). But with today’s Internet-enabled communications it’s feasible to want that communications device [...]
Skype for Everyone: Supporting Over 2 Billion Minutes per Day
Today Skype announced they had passed a significant milestone, now supporting over 2 Billion minutes of conversations per day. Here’s the infographic: 2 billion minutes infographic by Skype With Skype clients on PC’s, smartphones (iOS, Android, Windows Phone and soon to include BlackBerry 10), tablets, including Kindle Fire, and an emerging offering of Internet-enabled TV’s [...]
BlackBerry, the Business: The Phoenix Arises Beyond Rebirth
Following up on last fall’s post, RIM: A Phoenix in Rebirth Emerging, yesterday’s report show the initial signs, yet baby steps, of BlackBerry’s emergence once again as a player of note in the smartphone market space. At least we can move from ad hoc reports of visits to retail locations by overly eager analysts to [...]
Skype for iPhone 4.6 – Revising the Calling Experience
Yesterday Skype released Skype 4.6 for iOS, available as both Skype for iPhone and Skype for iPad. The changes include: New features and improvements: New, beautiful calling experience One-to-one chats now appear in the correct order Option to select your message as ‘read’ with just a few taps General fixes and improvements A call with [...]
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VoiceOnTheWeb
- Life Before @Skype – RIP: Last Remnants of Telex Disappear http://t.co/Ifh2Fbd32K @BlackBerry - and there was no predictive text! 09:05:10 AM June 14, 2013 from Facebook ReplyRetweetFavorite
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- CANOE -- SLAM! Sports - Hockey NHL - Edmonton - Oilers broke up with Ralph Krueger via @Skype @Skype4biz http://t.co/VdQ51n6uYL 01:15:09 PM June 10, 2013 from Facebook ReplyRetweetFavorite
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- @ambermac sounds like you need to pull out your BlackBerry 10 ;-) for ease of email handling. about 2 hours ago from TweetDeck in reply to ambermac ReplyRetweetFavorite
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- RT @jamesbody: I am in shock - it would appear that the Nation has decided to award my little brother an MBE ! http://t.co/7TRnb2MCff 07:22:12 AM June 15, 2013 from Blaq for BlackBerry® 10 ReplyRetweetFavorite







