Quebecor's telephone unit wants to enter residential arena against Bell
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"Someone scanned in a 1940's Bell Systems book called "How To Make Friends By Telephone" that shows the proper etiquette for using that new gadget, the telephone."
ForeThought.net Launches PerfectFone - Residential Broadband and Telephone Bundle
ForeThought.net Launches PerfectFone - Residential Broadband and Telephone Bundle03/14/2005 05:59 PM foreThought.net, a Denver-based telephone and Internet company, today
announced the launch of its residential and SOHO (Small-office
home-office) PerfectFone service - telephone service bundled with its
"Mach" high-speed broadband Internet service. [PRWEB Mar 11, 2005]
Microsoft To Enter Autonomic Computing Arena
Microsoft To Enter Autonomic Computing Arena03/14/2003 02:15 PM Microsoft is set to enter the autonomic computing market with a series
of software releases designed to reduce data-center complexity,
enabling companies to more efficiently manage applications across a
network. The first application to be released as part of the program
is Windows Server 2003, set to debut April 24th.
Nintendo's Revolution to enter online gaming arena
Witness: Microsoft, IBM to enter business software arena
Witness: Microsoft, IBM to enter business software arena06/14/2004 04:13 PM A witness in the antitrust trial against Oracle said both Microsoft
and IBM plan to move into the market to supply software to run key
business functions.
Home and Business Communications is Offering Packet8, a VOIP/Broadband Telephone Service, for Residential and Business Users
Home and Business Communications is Offering Packet8, a VOIP/Broadband Telephone Service, for Residential and Business Users02/01/2005 08:48 PM Andrew Aldrich owner of Home and Business Communications "We are
excited to be offering Packet8, VOIP / Broadband Telephone Service.
VOIP / Broadband Telephone services can save the end user up to 90% on
their telephone bill. The service will work where ever a broadband
connection is available (worldwide). Read more about Packet8 at:
www.GoWithPacket8.com [PRWEB Feb 1, 2005]
Panasonic Voice Over IP (VoIP) Telephone Systems Launched Online by Telephone Magic Inc.
"They had dial-up music delivery in 1909Wilmington, Delaware, is enjoying a novel service through the telephone exchange. Phonograph music is supplied over the wires to those subscribers who sign up for the service. Attached to the wall near the telephone ..."
Screen Telephone Calls Over the Internet In Real-Time - ThePhoneBOT.com Releases New Version of Telephone Answering Machine Software and New Remote Client Application for Real-Time Voicemail Screening Over Networked PCs
One of the mistakes I find service providers make on a
regular basis is drawing a bright yellow line between home and
business users.
Two caveats to this post. First, in many markets this makes great
sense. If you are selling furniture you better segment between home
and business users. If you are a general contractor same thing.
Second, with respect to Internet services (access, hosting, mail,
domain names, etc.) there is some segmentation necessary for larger
"small businesses". Here think about the same type of businesses that
used to be serviced by Novell's army of Netware consultants.
Businesses with usually 50 < employees < 500. They do have some (but
not all) unique needs.
There are three points I want to make here. First, for many small
businesses their needs are identical to those of home users. A little
hosting, a little mail and access with a domain name to keep it all
easy to find and use. Think about a $25-$75/month bundle of services
all in.
They both want it to work ALWAYS and both are unwilling to accept
less (nor should they). And for every "mission critical" business
email or website there is a timely romantic email or little league
schedule on a website that MUST be available now. If stuff isn't
working people get mad and may find an alternative supplier.
Both groups need help using these services. They are equally
clueless and equally in need of your fine counsel.
Second, a huge and growing segment of the population has NO
difference between work and home. They work at home. Sometimes they
relax during working hours. Sometimes they work during what would
normally NOT be working hours. These people, SOHO, need all the
services they need all the time. You cannot market to them separately.
This segment is also the wave of the future.
The last point I would make here is that having a residential base
usually leads to business accounts. Back in the day we (a long load
but a nice trip down memory lane for me) would regularly get to bid on
business against the "business-focused" ISPs (at the time usually
Netcom Canada and PSI) because we were providing dialup to the
President or decision-maker of the business. We usually got the
account. These segments feed each other.
The point I am trying to make here is for the vast majority
of potential customers there is no need to differentiate between
business and residential users and most distinctions ("higher
level of service") are artificial anyway.
It is the size of the bundle, not where you use it.
Germany Gets Residential VOIP11/10/2003 11:17 PM English version. Putting the German release through the translation
tool available at the Google home page unveiled these gems: "QSC ...
AT&T to Stop Some Residential Service (AP)06/23/2004 11:09 AM AP - AT&T Corp. said Wednesday it will stop selling local and
long-distance residential service in seven states, blaming its move on
a court decision that it says will result in higher prices for its use
of regional networks.
Is Google still doing residential phone listings?12/14/2003 03:29 AM I tried to a get a number today and couldn't do it, then I tried about
5 name + address pairings, and none of them generated a listing. I
also used the rphonebook:query and didn't get any results. Anybody
know anything about this?...
Arcane Arena 1.104/23/2004 08:33 PM This massively multiplayer RPG style game captures both the adrenaline
rush of real time games and the complex, tactical satisfaction of
turn-based play.
IBM Pushes Further into CRM Arena
IBM Pushes Further into CRM Arena03/14/2003 01:28 AM In what is expected to have a major impact on call center technology
supply, IBM has
announced a significant alliance with Genesys, a subsidiary of French
telecommunications
equipment vendor Alcatel.
Satellite ISP StarBand offers new residential service
Satellite ISP StarBand offers new residential service07/21/2004 09:16 AM StarBand, which supplies satellite-based Internet access, announced on
Tuesday a new
tier of residential service that uses the company's StarBand 481
satellite modem. Previously, residential customers were limited to the
StarBand 360 modem, which offers half the 100kbps upload speeds
attainable by the 481. Customers who choose the new service also
receive download speeds as fast as 500kbps, limited VPN capabilities,
10 free e-mail accounts, free basic Web hosting and a static IP
address for an extra US$4.99 per month. Pricing is $699.99 for the
complete hardware package, which includes the satellite dish and
modem, and a one-year contract with a $89.99 per month fee or a
three-year contract that drops to $79.99 per month in the second year
and $69.99 per month in the third year. As MacCentral posted this
article, StarBand had not yet updated its Web site with the new
residential plan.
At (Your Name Here) Arena, Money Talks
At (Your Name Here) Arena, Money Talks05/29/2004 04:49 PM There is a fast-growing marketplace in which companies craving public
recognition and customers vie for the rights to christen arenas and
stadiums after themselves.
Arena pushes Attheraces comeback04/22/2004 09:35 PM A re-modelling of the failed Attheraces satellite channel is still the
best way forward for UK racecourses, says co-owner Arena Leisure.
Factions face off in ultrawideband arena11/13/2003 10:00 AM A key meeting for the standardization of the wireless technology fails
to reconcile the two main camps, as Intel accuses Motorola of breaking
nondisclosure agreements.
BEA, Veritas Take On IBM in Utility Arena (NewsFactor)
BEA, Veritas Take On IBM in Utility Arena (NewsFactor)04/13/2004 03:45 PM NewsFactor - BEA (Nasdaq: BEAS) Software says its alliance with
Veritas (Nasdaq: VRTS) will help reduce the cost of
deploying and managing applications. The partnership's
integrated technology has an advantage over competitors, according to
the
companies, who claim it is the first open and heterogeneous
utility-computing platform on the market.
"While I'm probably going to stick with Bloglines for a while, I
might as well play with the 14 day trial of Newsgator
Online Services. The one feature that I don't see (and is now an
essential part of my aggregation needs) is the neat e-mail
subscriptions that Bloglines offers. I've always wanted to read my
e-mail in my aggregator rather than read my RSS feeds in my e-mail
client..." [Library
Stuff]
After playin
g with Bloglines earlier, Steven gave me a heads up about
Newsgator's new service. I had mistakenly assumed it ran off Outlook,
but he says it's completely independent and is similar to BL. Of
course, it's not free, but I'll still try to take it for a spin in the
near future.
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Xten announces new SIP SoftPhone called eyeBeam06/25/2004 01:33 PM Xten has announced its newest
Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) SoftPhone, eyebeam, which, like
other SoftPhone software previously released by the company, will turn
your Mac into a phone that can place and receive calls via Voice-Over
IP (VoIP), a protocol that carries voice data over the Internet. An
OEM version of the company's X-PRO SIP SoftPhone was just made
available to Vonage subscribers who use Mac OS X, as reported by MacCentral on Thursday. eyeBeam SoftPhone will offer
H.263 and H.264 IP video conferencing, CDMA cellular network support
and such telephony features as instant messaging and encryption. Xten
is currently demonstrating the new product at Supercomm 2004 and will
soon make a Beta release available to select partners, with the
commercial roll-out slated for October. eyeBeam will be Mac OS X
compatible, but the company hasn't released system requirements and
pricing yet, nor had it placed a product page on its Web site as
MacCentral posted this article.
Xten Announces Private Beta of "eyeBeam" Video SIP Softphone.
eyeBeam09/11/2004 12:39 PM Xten's eyeBe
am voice/video over IP softphone is shipping. SIP world domination
grows closer.
Vonage offers Xten X-PRO SoftPhone for OS X users
Vonage offers Xten X-PRO SoftPhone for OS X users06/24/2004 10:08 AM Broadband telephony service provider Vonage on Thursday announced that
it's providing an OEM version of Xten Networks' X-PRO SIP
SoftPhone for Mac OS X-based Vonage subscribers. The software
enables Vonage subscribers to send and receive telephone calls with
their computers using Voice over IP (VoIP) technology. SoftPhone
support is an add-on service for users who already have a Vonage
account -- accounts start at US$14.99 per month.
When I started thinking about taking
kottke.org full-time, one of the things I wanted to do was not
work out of my apartment most of the time. But office/work space in
NYC is expensive and I figured I wouldn't have room in the budget for
it. There was also the matter of the proper environment. I just didn't
want to exchange working alone in my apartment for working alone in an
office. A smallish workplace with like-minded folks focused on similar
projects was my goal.
So, I'm pleased to report that starting sometime later this month,
I will be an Eyebeam
R&D Senior Fellow for the next year or so. Eyebeam aims to be a center for art and
technology and with recent projects like Fundrace, ForwardTrack, and
ReBlog, there's quite a
bit of overlap in what Eyebeam and I are interested in. They are not
supporting me financially and I won't be officially working on any
projects for them, but I will be working in their new R&D space in
Chelsea. The hope is I'll not only have a physical place to work but
that both parties will benefit from my presence in that space. That
is, if some of their chocolate gets into my peanut butter (and vice
versa), that would be a good thing.
So thanks to Eyebeam for their support of my personal digital
exploration and am looking forward to working with the other
researchers, artists, and fellows. Here's their post on the subject.
Update: eyeBeam 1.1
Update: eyeBeam 1.104/19/2005 12:19 PM
The Video SIP softphone adds video recording, audio mix recording,
instant messaging with presence support, and more.
Computer Telephony without Telephony Boards
Computer Telephony without Telephony Boards06/25/2004 02:00 AM Zagreb, Croatia (PRWEB) June 15, 2004 -- For the last two decades
computer telephony was telephony boards based business. It is the time
for changes, or at least that is what folks at Uniqall do think about
it. Few days ago Uniqall made available for free download the first
public beta of its flagship Gridborg 1.0 software that is supposed to
displace expensive telephony boards from theirs well entrenched
positions within computer telephony solutions. [PRWEB Jun 25, 2004]
Telephony R.I.P.?
Telephony R.I.P.?01/07/2004 03:22 PM I have an iSight and a nice new Mac laptop. I also have a beat-up old Mac and a
decent Canon videocam that I don’t use that much, not having (yet)
developed videographer’s reflexes. Anyhow, the Canon has firewire
output, so I plugged that into the old Mac and what do you know, it
works just fine with iChat
AV. So we put the old Mac and the Canon with a little tripod on a
desk in a quiet but wired area upstairs and it’s a free videophone
to anywhere in the world. Restating for emphasis: whenever I’m
anywhere in the world and have an Internet connection, I can have a
free videophone call home, that goes on as long as I need to and
nobody’s counting minutes or running up a phone bill. Let’s see;
free telephone with video, or pay-for-it telephone with no picture.
Costly and voice-only, or free with a picture. I think this is what
an inflexion point smells like.
Last summer I switched to lingo.com, an IP phone service that
proved to be cheap but
unreliable. Starting last week Lingo failed altogether and
their tech support folks (available only by phone, which is kind of
irksome) failed to call back, so I ordered Vonage, which is the same
$25/month but does not include Western Europe in its unlimited calling
region and has higher international rates.
Here's how Vonage has worked...
Vonage sends you a brand-new Linksys broadband router with
included IP phone jacks and three Ethernet jacks; if you were relying
on your old router for 802.11b or to use as an 8-port hub you may have
to buy some new networking gear
the customer service Web site is very slow and about 25% of the
time page requests produce an error page with a "try again later"
instruction
tech support is available through a form on their Web site; this
form asks for your name, phone number, account number, etc., even
though you've already logged in and it should have all of his info as
part of your account profile
tech support via phone results in a "we're experiencing an
unsually high volume of calls; try again later"; customer service
(billing, etc.) can be reached after a 15-minute wait in queue
they say that they never received my FAXed letter of authorization
to transfer my old number from Lingo and want it refaxed
when set to simultaneously ring my cell phone Vonage does ring the
cell but I can't hear callers (they can hear me though)
They say that it will take two months for them to transfer the
phone number from Lingo, so I'll have to pay $25/month to Lingo for
forwarding until that happens.
[Update: I believe that I unfairly maligned Vonage in regards
to not being able to hear callers on calls simultaneously rung to my
cell phone. It turns out that it is my PalmOne Treo flaking out
on the very day that I installed Vonage! This makes Treo #10
that has failed, I think. It lasted about two months, just like
the others. Anyone have a suggestion for a GSM phone that will
do a calendar and contacts sync with Microsoft Outlook?]
[Dec 3 Update: When voicemail is pending, the Vonage system
fails to change the dial tone. A second try to reach technical
support (at 1:30 pm Eastern time) resulted in the same "we're too busy
to talk to anyone" recording. The voice quality of calls is
somewhat low, with some constant static.]
Red Sox add IP telephony to the lineup04/05/2005 07:29 PM While the Red Sox are seeing benefits from IP telephony and foresee
future wireless uses, at least one expert says the era of corporate
feasibility with wireless is not here yet.
Hooking up with Net telephony
Hooking up with Net telephony07/23/2004 12:45 PM roundup Upstart Skype strikes deals to take its VoIP service beyond
the PC, while AT&T hopes for a Net phone renaissance.
Net telephony set to surge, IDC says04/04/2005 11:29 AM Voice over Internet Protocol is finally starting to overcome what has
so far been a trend of slow growth, the market researcher says.
IBM/Lotus embraces telephony04/04/2005 04:38 AM IBM/Lotus this fall plans to offer technology that will enable users
to integrate VoIP or any other telephony service with their
collaboration applications.
Capellas: Net telephony is the future05/11/2004 02:55 PM MCI chief Michael Capellas tells an Networld+Interop crowd that the
post-bankruptcy carrier is banking on the Internet Protocol and
similar technologies as it rebuilds itself.
