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iotum’s Calliflower Conference Call Service Adds Skype Access

by Jim Courtney on Thu, Jan 21, 2010 5:01 am

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 [...]

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Categories Communications News, Conversation Providers, Mobile Applications, Service Providers, Skype For Business, Skype Partner News, Skype Partner Solutions, Using Skype

OnState Virtual PBX: Taking On and Managing All Callers

by Jim Courtney on Mon, Jan 5, 2009 7:01 am

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 employee. [...]

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Categories IP-Based Communications, Service Providers, Skype For Business, Skype Partner Solutions, Using Skype

CaliiFlower Conference Call Training Videos

by Jim Courtney on Tue, Sep 23, 2008 4:09 pm

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

Dan York: Skype’s 5 Years of Disruption

by Jim Courtney on Fri, Aug 29, 2008 3:08 pm

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 celebration [...]

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Categories Communications Stories, Skype News, Using Skype

SquawkBox Discusses Skype’s Fifth Anniversary

by Jim Courtney on Fri, Aug 29, 2008 10:08 am

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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Categories Communications Stories, Skype News, Using Skype

Alternatives to Skypecasts

by Jim Courtney on Fri, Aug 29, 2008 7:08 am

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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Categories Communications Stories, Conversation Providers, Service Providers, Skype For Business, Skype News, Skype Software, Using Skype

Voxeo: A Textbook Case for Voice 2.0 and Telecom Partnering

by Jim Courtney on Mon, Aug 25, 2008 4:08 pm

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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Categories Communications Stories, Communications Technology, Service Providers

The Reality of Convergence is Still Divergence.

by Jim Courtney on Wed, Aug 6, 2008 11:08 am

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

Catching Up: iSkoot Gets Third Party Recognition

by Jim Courtney on Tue, Jul 29, 2008 5:07 pm

Over the past few months there have been a few Skype Journal posts about iSkoot and how they provide mobile device access to Skype’s services. Of course, iSkoot also provides the software behind the Skypephone on the 3 network in nine countries. Recently iSkoot has been getting some accolades from third parties:
Nokia named iSkoot for [...]

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Categories Communications News, Mobile Applications, Skype Channels, Skype Partner Solutions, Skype on Mobile

Mike Bartlett Discusses Skype 4.0 Beta on Squawk Box

by Jim Courtney on Sat, Jun 21, 2008 9:06 am

We reported earlier that Mike Bartlett, Skype for Windows Product Manager, would be the guest on Friday’s Squawk Box. With 15 fifteen participants, Mike answered questions ranging from features of the new Skype for Windows 4.0 Beta; plans and objectives for the beta program, the challenges of trying to launch concurrent (Windows, Mac, Linux) versions, [...]

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Categories Skype News, Skype Platform, Skype Software, Using Skype

Jonathan Christensen Discusses High Quality Video on Squawk Box

by Jim Courtney on Thu, Jan 31, 2008 6:01 pm

Earlier this week I mentioned that Jonathan Christensen would be appearing on Alec Saunders’ daily Squawk Box this morning to answer questions about Skype High Quality Video. The session has now been posted as a podcast on Saunderslog. Well worth a listen to get answers to how High Quality Video evolved at Skype as well [...]

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Skype’s Jonathan Christensen To Be Guest Participant on Sqawk Box

by Jim Courtney on Tue, Jan 29, 2008 8:01 pm

For the past few weeks, Alec Saunders, CEO of iotum, has been hosting Squawk Box, a daily conference call discussing IP communications industry issues with anyone who wishes to join the call. Naturally he uses iotum’s Free Conference Call service on Facebook for these calls. Occasionally he has been able to line up a [...]

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