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While attending eComm 2010 three weeks ago I was honored to be asked to join six other bloggers in providing weekly posts to Voyces.com, a blog that provides opinion, insight and perspective on developments in the IP-based and mobile communications space.
The initial two posts:
Has “Social Sharing” Become the “Nom du Jour”? provides a follow [...]

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Categories Communications Stories, Communications Technology, Mobile Applications, Mobile Devices, Skype Platform, Skype on Mobile, Using Skype

Over the past two years I have been occasionally reporting on Tungle, the meeting accelerator that facilitates scheduling meetings and conference calls. Tungle’s goals as a service are:

bring down barriers, such as different calendar programs, between companies and work teams
share availability (Busy/Free status only)
respect privacy and user control

In summary Tungle wants to be “the [...]

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Categories Communications News, Mobile Applications, Service Providers, Social Media, Web 2.0 Tools and Applications

Over the past six weeks I have attended four local social media and technology events – a PodCamp, a monthly social networking seminar, an annual project management ski day and  WordCamp Toronto 2010. At each I was able to bring along a few Skype Everyman headsets to be given away as prizes.
Prior to selecting [...]

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Categories Communications Stories, Skype Bytes, Skype For Business, Skype for Personal, Using Skype, Voice On The Web

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

Tomorrow morning I’ll be heading out to San Francisco for eComm 2009. Kudos to organizer Lee Dryburgh, who on his own initiative and at his own personal risk, launched this event last year. Late last week Lee was able to announce that registrations had surpassed last year’s attendance.
Attendees should come away with not only [...]

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Categories Conferences and Events

An acquaintance’s selection of BlackBerry Bold, based largely on Twitter message exchanges, has resulted in not only a few informative posts but also an avalanche of almost daily Tweets responding to individuals seeking a recommendation for a smartphone.
When I traveled to IT Expo and Mobilize last September I was in the unique position of [...]

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Categories Communications Stories, Mobile Applications, Mobile Devices

Over the past eighteen months CalliFlower has evolved into a complete audio conference call service. While they still offer a basic free service, in January they launched a premium service that provides document sharing, local calling numbers in North America, Europe and Australia as well as a feature that allows administrators to set up, but [...]

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Categories Communications News, Mobile Applications, Service Providers

During our conversations with Skype COO Scott Durchslag last week at CES, Scott outlined Skype’s criteria for its software development going forward.
First was the emphasis on “liquid communications” through statements such as “Skype Whenever, Wherever”. Just as today you can pick up any PC or mobile platform and find all the Google Tools (Search, Maps, [...]

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Categories Skype News, Skype Platform, Skype Software, Skype on Mobile

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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Categories Communications News, Communications Technology, Mobile Applications, Service Providers, Skype on Mobile

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 usually [...]

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Categories Service Providers, Skype on Mobile, Using Skype

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 we [...]

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Categories Communications Stories, Communications Technology, Conversation Providers