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It’s almost two years since the launch of PamFax as a fax sending service that allows anyone with a PC and an Internet connection to send faxes to any fax terminal worldwide at low per page rates. With a simple fax setup and no subscription requirements, PamFax has become a very popular and robust [...]

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Categories Communications News, Service Providers, Skype Partner News, Skype Partner Solutions

Recently I wrote about the official launch of Tungle, the meeting accelerator that provides a cross-platform,  cross-calendar service for scheduling meetings via the web. In fact, with its new features I am now finding that 100% of my meeting requests have a response that results in a meeting. In other words the released version [...]

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Categories Communications News, Social Media, Web 2.0 Tools and Applications

SocialScope: Why BlackBerry?

by Jim Courtney on Tue, May 19, 2009 3:05 pm

Yesterday’s post, SocialScope: for a Complete, But Managed, Twitter Experience, outlines why I have found SocialScope to be the most complete Twitter client on any platform offered to date. But it only runs on BlackBerry. Why? A recent interview with Ubiquitous Systems CEO Amit Kumar provided the answers.
As their initial goal the Ubiquitous team [...]

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Categories Conversation Providers, Mobile Applications, Social Media, Web 2.0 Tools and Applications

When it comes to organizing and following my Twitter activity, I have found that SocialScope – currently in a closed beta and only available on BlackBerry – provides the most complete and most satisfying Twitter user experience. A recent interview with Ubiquitous Systems CEO Amit Kumar provided some additional background on how SocialScope evolved [...]

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Categories Mobile Applications, Social Media, Web 2.0 Tools and Applications

PamConsult launches PamFax 2.0 as an obligation-free hosted fax service that supports sending and receiving faxes worldwide with no capital expenses, no usage contract requirements and lower “per page” costs.
The process of sending and receiving faxes involves:

a document source: whether physical or a computer file
physical document scanning
a cover page
transmission of the fax (originally over a [...]

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Categories Communications News, Service Providers, Skype Partner News, Skype Partner Solutions, Web 2.0 Tools and Applications

Skype today published data from a recent Zobgy survey that, aside from demonstrating smartphone users’ desire to control their own phone configuration, demonstrates that a significant majority of users in the four countries surveyed (U.S., U.K., Japan and Spain) simply are still not perceiving the potential for a mobile phone handset to be considered [...]

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Categories Communications Stories, Mobile Applications, Skype News, Wireless Carriers

Over the past three years of blogging about IP-based communications, one frequent reference has been to Dan York, who for the past eighteen months has been Director of Emerging Communication Technology in the Office of the CTO at Voxeo, whose story has often been blogged here.
Once he joined Voxeo we noticed that Dan was [...]

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Categories Communications Stories, Service Providers

Borderless Communicator Hudson Barton and I both follow our Twitter friends using a nifty third party Skype utility called Twitter4Skype. Basically you set up Twitter4Skype as a Skype Contact and enter your account information. Going forward, whenever you are logged onto Skype and a Tweet arrives from one of those whom you are “Following”, it [...]

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Categories Skype For Business, Skype Partner Solutions, Skype for Personal, Using Skype

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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Categories Communications Stories, Mobile Applications, Mobile Devices

Skypephone 2 at 3 August 18?

by Jim Courtney on Tue, Jul 22, 2008 10:07 pm

While I can find no press release from any of Skype, iSkoot or 3, it appears there was some 3 media event yesterday where it was announced that 3 will be introducing a new Skypephone 2 on August 18. Key new features include:

3G mobile broadband supporting HSDPA
a 3.2 Mpixel camera (vs the current 2.0 Mpixel)
integration [...]

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Categories Mobile Devices, Skype Partner Solutions, Skype on Mobile, Wireless Carriers

Last Friday morning, iPhone 3G launch day, I caught the earliest commuter train into Toronto and arrived at the Rogers “designated” Toronto iPhone launch store about 30 minutes before opening at 8 a.m. A lineup of about 150 to 200 potential customers (awaiting what turned out to be 100 units with a cap of 2 [...]

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Categories Communications News, Communications Stories, Conferences and Events, Mobile Devices, Wireless Carriers

CalliFlower: iotum rebrands its Free Conference Call service with a focus on a rich user experience not only for conference call moderators but also for participants.
Value-add in the Web 2.0 world comes primarily through the user interface. There’s a plethora of great technology innovation happening out there. But it’s becoming acknowledged that ease of [...]

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Categories Communications News, Service Providers

Facebook CEBP group

by howethomas on Tue, Feb 12, 2008 2:02 pm

Join our Facebook CEBP group. It provides a social networking platform to talk about Voice Mashups and CEBP.

Tags: Facebook, Social Networking

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Categories Misc

Mobivox

by Jim Courtney on Tue, Feb 12, 2008 12:02 pm

Mobivox is a service that let’s you make low cost or free calls worldwide at little or no cost from any phone, whether wireless or landline. Call a local access number in any of over 40 countries and tell the MobiVox Girl whom you wish to call and whether to call their home, office, mobile [...]

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Categories Service Providers, Skype World, Skype on Mobile