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I too wonder about conference calls. Why is it that those back chat experiments work so well. What’s really happening? CHICAGO (Wireless Flash) — What are workers really doing during conference calls? A new survey shows most of the time, they’re not paying attention to their colleagues. The RoperASW/Tandberg poll looked at workers in [...] Skype releases another update 0.95. However with so many frequent releases perhaps we are just just seeing the same users “download” the latest version. Here’s another review “Skype Tops Frustration” supporting my recent post that there are still some hurdles to climb. The downloads number remains a fiction for all those quoting it in the [...] What is ailing Skype growth today? The link below is hardly a statistical sample on Skype yet some numbers ring true. Read it all for more. What underlies the numbers is that Skype growth is changing. New users (like my son are online sporadically, he uses it with friends while teaming up to play games [...] Combine disruptive innovation, expensive upgrades, overvalued balance sheets, stratospheric sales and marketing costs, old technologies and trouble is on the horizon. This comment is on the numbers…. The leapfrog effect where one technology makes the next obsolete can work in two ways. The new technology can be so much better that it really undoes the [...] Looking forward to a little change in perspective? When will the telecoms give us what we want. Carl Ford writes: The Carl Ford Blog: Local Number Portability For me, my cell phone and my home phone represent very different parts of my life. And the idea that I should combine them means that I [...] Sometimes I look back and think hmmm that blog came out of left field. That was how I felt when I posted on camera phones. There’s an opportunity to use this tech beneficially and I have a particular interest in tying them to photo blogs in corporate environments. Well the heavy hand of regulation is [...] Peter Kalmstrom has developed an interesting Outlook application for Skype. Outlook Skype Why an Outlook Skype application? You probably already have a number of contacts in Outlook. This application allows you to use those contacts to call directly via Skype and also store the Skype information directly in the Outlook Contact. The contacts folder [...] This Skype complaint is one worth looking at a little more seriously. For I still believe that adding a SkypeMe function to Feedster would promote some interesting conversations. The SkypeMe button on my site has certainly worked positively for me. However, I think it is the unintended consequeces of linking Skype to RSS feeds and [...] IBM’s case for VoIP During a presentation Tuesday at TechTarget’s Networking Decisions conference, Johnny Barnes, IBM’s vice president of global IT solutions and standards, told attendees that his company plans to migrate at least 80% of its more than 300,000 employees to voice over IP by 2008. Though the ambitious project will replace approximately [...] It’s amazing that the old telcoms industry is still functioning. I’m not in a position to judge this new release from Stealth Technologies. However add this capability to Skype, add easy conferencing and companies like WebEx will be in trouble too. [...] I’d like a 1975 first edition deck of the “Oblique Strategies” by Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt. Today I had an e-mail from a friend and was following links and wow had to blog it. Why? See the fun stuff below. The BBC provides context of the [...] |
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