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This week I am attending the fourth Emerging Communications Conference, or eComm America 2010, with the byline “What’s Next in Telecom, Mobile and Internet Communications”. The first morning was probably one of the best overall sessions for providing an update of where several major players are taking their offerings and how they are contributing [...]

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Categories Communications Stories, Communications Technology, Conferences and Events, Mobile Applications

Skype’s announcement today of agreements to have television sets become end points for Skype video calls really raises a series of both user interface issues as well as social issues:

Do I want to be interrupted while watching programming such as a sporting event or Oprah?
Where is it more convenient to talk: via a TV [...]

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Categories Communications News, Embedded Skype, Skype Hardware, Skype News, Skype Partner News, Skype Platform, Using Skype

Pamela 4.5 Adds Call Management Features

by Jim Courtney on Tue, Apr 14, 2009 12:04 pm

Pamela, the original Skype Extra that provides a range of utilities to enhance your Skype conversations experience, recently introduced Pamela 4.5 with enhancements which provide new call management functionality.
Pamela’s feature set can be broadly summarized as including:

Conversation management

notification management
voice mail (with optional email forwarding)
video messaging (caller can leave a video message)
call transfer (missing from [...]

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Categories Skype Partner News, Skype Partner Solutions

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

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

Buried in the Yahoo assets that Microsoft covets is recently acquired Zimbra, “a leader in Open Source, next generation messaging and collaboration software”. Amongst Zimbra’s product line, the initial offering of Zimbra’s Unified Messaging is based on a partnership with Asterisk, the open source VoIP provider. Zimbra has an extensive list of service provider, business [...]

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Categories Service Providers, Skype For Business, Skype Partner Solutions, Skype Platform

Pamela 4.0 Released

by Jim Courtney on Wed, Nov 21, 2007 3:11 pm

Pioneer Skype Extra application Pamela has this week released version 4.0 with a new user interface:

and several new features:

More screenshots here. Download here. Pamela Basic is always free; other versions of Pamela have a 30-day trial. We’ll be doing a review, including a user case study, within the next ten days but in the meantime [...]

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Categories Skype For Business, Skype for Personal, To Be Categorized