Source: www.voip-news.com
SipVicious explains how to set up a VoIP lab.
Human VoIP (that’s the Jajah corporate blog) shares the Jajah Click to Call Javascript API.
In the VoIP world, Skype is the biggest … VoIP Watch discusses.
Source: gigaom.com
It isn’t quite earth shattering, but Intel is introducing a technology that could make computers more useful. The company has developed ways to power up PCs remotely, allowing people to, say, retrieve files, according to the Wall Street Journal. Intel calls this Remote Wake, and it will work on forthcoming desktops with a new chipset that will have the new software embedded in the memory. Apparently, this will be much easier to use than the current options.
Intel is working with Jajah, CyberLink, Orb Networks and Pando Networks. Because of Remote Wake, a PC will also be able to make and receive calls over the JAJAH network and wake up from sleep mode to receive a call. This is improvement over the current scenario, where you can’t quite use your PC as your phone, because when it’s in sleep mode, you miss the calls. Pando’s service could deliver video at a dedicated time to a PC after waking it up remotely, an option that could make Pando quite viable as a desktop-oriented content delivery network.
If you are an expert on remote access and have some opinions about Remote Wake, please share your opinions with us.
Source: www.voip-news.com
Does Skype have a backdoor? Has it been outfitted with the technology to track any conversation, any time? TMC says a loud YES! And shares some information from an anonymous source. Read it here.
Vonage is replacing their CEO. Wonder what it will mean for the company once Jeffrey Citron is gone buh-bye? Read about it on TMC.
Jajah has launched IP-PBX for the SMB market. Read about it on Fierce VoIP.
Source: www.voip-news.com
Jajah Direct, a PC-free VoIP call service, has launched in Europe in Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia. The launch means ultra-low-cost international calls for users in those countries.
According to VoIP Monitor:
Making low cost international calls has never been so cheap or simple. Unlike many VoIP solutions, JAJAH Direct is computer-free and can work on any landline and mobile phone. No more long distance dialling, no need to sit in front of your computer, no calling cards that run out in the middle of a conversation. Simply call a local number and speak to anyone, anywhere in the world.
JAJAH Direct calls can be made at anytime to any one of 122 countries worldwide, including USA, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia and Germany… even Antarctica.
Source: www.voip-news.com
VoIP Watch wonders if 8×8’s patent announcement puts other VoIP companies behind the 8-ball, so to speak. (More on that patent tomorrow.) Read it here.
Citrus has extended the Digitalk platform. Read about it on VoIP News of the UK.
VoIP Weblog reports that Gizmo5 is now being served by Jajah. Read it here.
Source: www.voip-news.com
VoIP Watch is on dope watch and the award for dopiest goes to . . . American Airlines. Why? They’ve banned in-flight VoIP, saying that it is keeping with the ban on cell phone usage. Don’t think about it too hard–it will hurt your head. Read it here.
VoIP News of the UK reports that Gizmo 5 is now using Jajah. Read it here.
There’s a new version of Calliflower out — the conference call service, not the vegetable. Read about it here.
Source: gigaom.com
Jajah, in its effort to become a backend platform for VoIP services, has started offering call termination, billing and other such services to one and all comers. They got a big boost when they signed up Yahoo! Now, the Sequoia Capital-backed company has signed up SIPphone, the company behind Gizmo and will handle their call termination. Does this mean Gizmo’s call quality will increase? I certainly hope so – I have stopped using the service because of poor quality of voice.
Instead, I have opted for RingCentral, which recently introduced a Mac OS X soft client (in addition to a PC version) and it is doing a might fine job for me. I was highly skeptical of RingCentral in the past but they have won me over with their high quality service. (Full review, pending!)
Soft phones – whether they are from RingCentral, Vonage, Gizmo or Skype extremely useful. I almost never am close to a landline, but an internet connection is always handy. Using soft phone, I can make quick calls without really breaking away from the computer screen. I am not alone in professing a liking for Softphones. A Frost & Sullivan report says that as a percentage of total IP-telephone market soft phones share will increase from 5 percent to 20 percent by 2014. Softphone sales rose to 416,000 units, worth $18.9 million in 2007, up 30% over 2006.
Source: www.voip-news.com
Tesco has signed a big deal with Cable and Wireless. Read about it on ITProPortal.
Saunderslog is talking up Jajah. Definitely worth the lead — it’s insightful. Find it here.
VoIP Weblog is talking about Skype, in historical perspectives. Read it here.
Source: goebel.net
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Truphone finally makes it public: According to fellow VoIP blogger Alec Saunders and the UK site Techworld, Truphone is set to announce Truphone Anywhere, a service that lets you acccess the Truphone network from any mobile, whether on WiFi or not.
You know what? I know this service since February and better didn’t tell to not ruin Truphone’s surprise. Research Director James Body showed it off secretly to me at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. That’s what I wrote in a later blog post on February 29, 2008:
They always have much more advanced Truphone versions installed than normal users. The last lab version I saw in Barcelona was quite promising and solved a problem I was always nagging about.
I am don’t think that the new Truphone Anywhere feature with its beautiful Skype like "A"-logo is a direct reaction to my nagging blog post "To make money from mobile VoIP, companies have to accept certain realities" from February, 1st. But it attacks the problem that "WiFi isn’t everywhere and callback costs double", which was always my strongest point against many mobile VoIP business ideas like Truphone.
To solve it, I recommended a network of international callthrough numbers which users can dial for local prices to channel their mobile phone calls into the VoIP system of companies like Truphone, Gizmo5 or WiFiMobile. It seems that Truphone finally took my advice, after Wifimobile had already announced a similar solution and Gizmo5 always cooperated with Sipbroker for local callthrough.
Techworld now writes that Truphone could join the bandwagon because they have bought the travel SIM card provider SIM4Travel. But I guess that Jajah or Tpad could also have provided with the necessary infrastructure.
Truphone Anywhere dials a gateway on a local number, which then connects through to the destination number, saving money if it is an international call. Unlike some other services, this is transparent, with the call set-up handled automatically after the user dials the remote number. It is enabled partly by a recent Truphone acquisition, SIM4Travel, which provides cheap international calling through gateways in Europe.
Let’s see if it’s as cool as the Israeli mobile VoIP software miracle from Mobilemax which automatically connects the cheapest way. I am also wondering what came first: 1.) the acquisition of SIM4Travel, 2.) the last round of financing, 3.) Truphone Anywhere? The official Truphone version is 1, 2, 3. The financining allegedly followed one week after the acquisition on April 17, 2008. But I am pretty sure that it went 3, 2, 1.
Source: andyabramson.blogs.com
Carolyn Schuk is no stranger to the VoIP world and her VoIPPrincess blog is going to be one to keep tabs on.
Yesterday she gave a butt whoopin’ to both Yahoo and Jaja…I can only wonder what she’s going to say to AOL!!!
Source: andyabramson.blogs.com
I woke up this morning and found VoIPWatch being cited in Business Week’s TechBeat by Olga Kharif. This made me think back to one of the reasons to start VoIPWatch, which was to always be a helpful source of information to the media and to provide a perspective that offers insight and viewpoint.
Right after that I read a post from our client ifByPhone’s founder, Irv Shapiro offering his take on the same deal as he details how the future of telephony rests in the applications, a viewpoint that I have agreed with for a long time.
With minutes dropping to almost zero, or being at zero in many ways, Irv’s business is based on delivering the new services to business in the same vein as Jajah and how they’re bringing services to Yahoo.
Its the apps baby. Its the apps.
Source: andyabramson.blogs.com
With the possible merger of Yahoo with Microsoft this agreement between Jajah and Yahoo can be very good, or much to do about nothing. But for now its all very good for Jajah and they deserve the credit for being the number one minute stealer, taking advantage of an opportunity when everyone has their eyes elsewhere. Well done.
Here are the facts as I see it:
Jajah picks up the inbound and outbound call management for Yahoo voice, which has not really set the world on fire. Isn’t that why Yahoo bought Dialpad? Score lots of money to Craig Walker and Vincent Paquet. Yahoo, doesn’t score any points.
Jeff Bonforte has left Yahoo for XOBNI. Reportedly Microsoft wants to buy XOBNI. Jeff developed Yahoo voice with the help of some very talented developers. He also developed the guts of GizmoProject for SIPPhone. Candidly, since Jeff left Gizmo the product hasn’t been as stable, but it still works. Score one for Jeff, nothing for Yahoo as they let a talented whirling dirvish like Rockstar slip away.
Brad Garlinghouse is still there at Yahoo trying to help clean up the sticky situation brought on by the Peanut Butter Manifesto (and things are showing he was right). So the two guiding lights who moved Yahoo big time into voice are not paying any attention. Give Brad some Skippy.
Now this is where you have to really wonder whose paying attention to what at Yahoo. AT&T and Verizon are/were big parts of the Yahoo on-ramp strategy. This Jajah relationship can’t exactly appeal to them given how may DSL customers they drive to Yahoo as their home page. Also since Yahoo powers AT&T’s portal for WiFi with its ad engine, one has to wonder if the right hand at Yahoo knows what the left hand is doing.
So Jajah shows off smarts in landing a deal that has lots of marquee value, will enable Yahoo to not be in the phone infrastructure business and likely has some community and ad delivery value for them.
Score Jajah 10, Yahoo 0.
