Voxeo has as its tagline “the fastest growing voice platform company”; however, with today’s acquisition of IMified, “the world’s largest hosted instant messaging application development and deployment platform”, Voxeo has become a more encompassing, “fastest growing” conversation platform company. Complementing Voxeo’s widely respected provisioning and support of hosted voice applications, this acquisition recognizes the [...]
Communications News, Conversation Providers, Developers, Service Providers
With the announcement of the Skype IPO a few weeks ago we are starting to see the devolution of any previous attempts at Skype – eBay synergy. Yesterday Phil reported on eBay’s removal of Skype voice and chat buttons in eBay listings effective June 10, 2009.
My major introduction to Skype personnel and the Skype ecosystem [...]
Conferences and Events, Developers, Skype News, Skype Partner News
I first met iotum CEO Alec Saunders as a competitor in the Canadian PC software market back in 1994. I was Canadian Country Manager for Quarterdeck whose QEMM-386 memory manager had been the tops-selling utility for DOS-based PC’s; Alec was Microsoft’s Canada’s Product Manager for DOS where they were introducing some memory management techniques [...]
Communications Stories, Developers, Mobile Applications
Following a link from Dan York’s update to his post outlining technical details of Skype for SIP, I found a link to this post from IfByPhone’s Irv Shapiro: Why Skype for Asterisk is more important than Skype for SIP.
First, Irv has done perhaps the best articulation yet differentiating Skype for Asterisk from Skype for [...]
Developers, Service Providers, Skype Partner Solutions, Skype Platform, Skype Software
The Voice On The Web public chat has continued to be lively through the week. Not only has Skype’s Senior Product Manager responsible for Skype for SIP, Chris Moore, participated but a couple of other guests have joined the discussion to clarify some issues.
First to summarize Chris’ comments:
He is sorting through the overwhelming number [...]
Developers, Skype For Business, Skype Partner News, Skype Platform
Over the past three days there has been a continuous stream of presentations that provide insight into a wide range of issues, opportunities and perspectives in the IP-based communications space going forward. While there will be more posts covering individual presentations, it’s worth taking time to mention a few highlights:
Most innovative, outside-the-box, presentation: Ge [...]
Communications Stories, Conferences and Events, Developers, Service Providers, Skype Platform
At the BlackBerry Developer Conference last fall, RIM announced that they would be launching their BlackBerry applications store in March, 2009. While it’s early in March, RIM last night provided significant details leading up to the launch of BlackBerry App World later this month. Rather than doing a launch at some big event, in [...]
Communications News, Developers, Mobile Applications
With the launch of Skype for Windows 4.0, Skype delivered its first client incorporating Skype’s new superwideband SILK codec providing a new user experience in voice calling. For example, Alec Saunders in “Skype 4.0 audio: smooth as SILK”:
Perhaps the biggest improvement, though, is audio quality. We all thought that Skype audio was great, right? [...]
Communications Stories, Communications Technology, Conferences and Events, Developers, Mobile, Skype Channels, Skype News, Wireless Carriers
As indicated in previous posts, Voxeo has become a leader in the development and hosting of voice applications. From their website:
Voxeo helps enterprises improve service and lower costs by automating and connecting their most common phone calls with our Interactive Voice Response (IVR) or Voice over IP (VoIP) solutions.
Our IVR and VoIP hosting, turnkey platforms, [...]
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