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Tuesday, October 23, 2007: Microsoft India has made its Unified Communications (UC) software available. The software will enable employees within organisations to be able to communicate and collaborate through e-mails, phone call, instant messaging, video conference in an efficient manner through any device such as a computer, cell phone or even a public phone.
Via EFYTimes.

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Response Point phone system, a VoIP IP Telephony system from Microsoft targeting SMBs have been released to manufacturing.
This different from the planned launch of Microsoft’s Office Communications Server (OCS) 2007 and other communications products at a launch event in San Francisco on October 16.

With this system Microsoft joins vendors such as 3Com, Cisco Systems and Digium in targeting VoIP systems at small businesses with 50 users or less. Response Point phone system, which include VoIP call processing and features such as voicemail, call forwarding and integration with Microsoft Outlook.
Microsoft has joined with two OEM partners, D-Link and Quanta, in preparing and marketing product bundles within the next few months that package Microsoft software with their base hardware units, gateways and phones. Systems and Packaged systems will be available to solution providers via the distributors working with D-Link and Quanta.

Customers can preorder Quanta Syspine models beginning Friday, Oct. 5. A complete package that includes a base unit with built-in analog telephone adapter (ATA) and secure gateway, plus four phones, will cost approximately $2,500 (all prices U.S.). Additional phones will be available for $159 each.

In addition, D-Link VoiceCenter phone systems will be available in the fourth quarter of 2007. The VoiceCenter system will include a base unit, ATA and five phones for approximately $2,999. Additional phone lines will cost approximately $149.

Response Point phone system.

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I was reading a comprehensive 3 page article today about how skype, the disruptive VOIP technology is doing in the market place. The article covers a lot of ground and shows off wishes of Ebay and the rest of us, what skype should be. Ebay paid 2.6 Billion to aquire Skype and the figure might run high as 4.1 Billion if all the promised bonuses were paid.
The Ebay has a task of proving to it’s investors that it made a good purchase and skype will be profitable. It is not an easy task but not a difficult one either, if the numbers are correct.
Currently, there are about 206 Million broadband users worldwide. Broad band users tend to use VOIP IP Telephony applications like Skype, better than the dial up users. But Dial up users also try out these VOIP applications but I am not sure if it worth the effort. Initially there were many dial up users that used Skype in old days but the current bandwidth requirements and tag along improvements make it, that you have a broadband connection. And the world is heading that way. Some Users in Japan getting 100MB fiber to home for the same price I am paying for DSL in USA. USA is yet to catch up with broadband deployment with the countries like Japan and South Korea.

What I was surprised about the numbers on skype was the user base and it’s distribution. According to the article; "The number of registered users, those who have downloaded the free Skype phone software, more than doubled to 136 million by Sept. 30 since the sale to eBay. That is more than half of the world’s roughly 206 million broadband Internet users, according to International Data Corp. Each day, 250,000 people download Skype, compared with 130,000 before the sale."
So if you are able to make a $1 per month, it is around 1.6 Billion per year. Add some advertising like ebay goodies or Google ADSENSE, Ebay should be able to show to the investors that the investment was worthwhile.
Another fact that surprised me was that most of the skype users are concentrated in the Asia and Europe. Of all the users, only one fifth speaks English, and the highest number seems to be Chinese.
The article also tells us about slowing of Skype and it’s competitors, not only the smaller outfits (a swarm of it) offering VOIP solutions, big boys like Adobe and Microsoft are entering the arena. Remember Netscape, dominant browser untill MS released the IE. Skype might go the same way.
"The biggest challenge facing eBay is that swarms of competitors, and not just Yahoo and Google, have climbed out of the woodwork, experts say. Besides smaller rivals like Vonage, Jajah or VoipBuster, which is based in Cologne, Skype faces Adobe, the digital document maker, which is developing its own Skype-like phone products, and Microsoft, whose Office Communicator software for businesses enables Internet phoning.

Traditional phone companies like Deutsche Telekom and France Télécom, and their competitors in the fixed-line and Internet businesses, are also giving away free minutes and Internet phone calls to retain customers.

In China, Skype’s biggest market, the leading Internet phone company is QQ, owned by the Chinese operator Tencent Holdings, which says it has more than twice the number of users as Skype."
I think it is time, you read the article. Beacause I feel like changing the header to say, "Skype is on the way down"

Links;
Kevin O’Brien’s Article on IHT

Source: snapvoip.blogspot.com

I was reading a comprehensive 3 page article today about how skype, the disruptive VOIP technology is doing in the market place. The article covers a lot of ground and shows off wishes of Ebay and the rest of us, what skype should be. Ebay paid 2.6 Billion to aquire Skype and the figure might run high as 4.1 Billion if all the promised bonuses were paid.
The Ebay has a task of proving to it’s investors that it made a good purchase and skype will be profitable. It is not an easy task but not a difficult one either, if the numbers are correct.
Currently, there are about 206 Million broadband users worldwide. Broad band users tend to use VOIP IP Telephony applications like Skype, better than the dial up users. But Dial up users also try out these VOIP applications but I am not sure if it worth the effort. Initially there were many dial up users that used Skype in old days but the current bandwidth requirements and tag along improvements make it, that you have a broadband connection. And the world is heading that way. Some Users in Japan getting 100MB fiber to home for the same price I am paying for DSL in USA. USA is yet to catch up with broadband deployment with the countries like Japan and South Korea.

What I was surprised about the numbers on skype was the user base and it’s distribution. According to the article; "The number of registered users, those who have downloaded the free Skype phone software, more than doubled to 136 million by Sept. 30 since the sale to eBay. That is more than half of the world’s roughly 206 million broadband Internet users, according to International Data Corp. Each day, 250,000 people download Skype, compared with 130,000 before the sale."
So if you are able to make a $1 per month, it is around 1.6 Billion per year. Add some advertising like ebay goodies or Google ADSENSE, Ebay should be able to show to the investors that the investment was worthwhile.
Another fact that surprised me was that most of the skype users are concentrated in the Asia and Europe. Of all the users, only one fifth speaks English, and the highest number seems to be Chinese.
The article also tells us about slowing of Skype and it’s competitors, not only the smaller outfits (a swarm of it) offering VOIP solutions, big boys like Adobe and Microsoft are entering the arena. Remember Netscape, dominant browser untill MS released the IE. Skype might go the same way.
"The biggest challenge facing eBay is that swarms of competitors, and not just Yahoo and Google, have climbed out of the woodwork, experts say. Besides smaller rivals like Vonage, Jajah or VoipBuster, which is based in Cologne, Skype faces Adobe, the digital document maker, which is developing its own Skype-like phone products, and Microsoft, whose Office Communicator software for businesses enables Internet phoning.

Traditional phone companies like Deutsche Telekom and France Télécom, and their competitors in the fixed-line and Internet businesses, are also giving away free minutes and Internet phone calls to retain customers.

In China, Skype’s biggest market, the leading Internet phone company is QQ, owned by the Chinese operator Tencent Holdings, which says it has more than twice the number of users as Skype."
I think it is time, you read the article. Beacause I feel like changing the header to say, "Skype is on the way down"

Links;
Kevin O’Brien’s Article on IHT

Source: snapvoip.blogspot.com

I was reading a comprehensive 3 page article today about how skype, the disruptive VOIP technology is doing in the market place. The article covers a lot of ground and shows off wishes of Ebay and the rest of us, what skype should be. Ebay paid 2.6 Billion to aquire Skype and the figure might run high as 4.1 Billion if all the promised bonuses were paid.
The Ebay has a task of proving to it’s investors that it made a good purchase and skype will be profitable. It is not an easy task but not a difficult one either, if the numbers are correct.
Currently, there are about 206 Million broadband users worldwide. Broad band users tend to use VOIP IP Telephony applications like Skype, better than the dial up users. But Dial up users also try out these VOIP applications but I am not sure if it worth the effort. Initially there were many dial up users that used Skype in old days but the current bandwidth requirements and tag along improvements make it, that you have a broadband connection. And the world is heading that way. Some Users in Japan getting 100MB fiber to home for the same price I am paying for DSL in USA. USA is yet to catch up with broadband deployment with the countries like Japan and South Korea.

What I was surprised about the numbers on skype was the user base and it’s distribution. According to the article; "The number of registered users, those who have downloaded the free Skype phone software, more than doubled to 136 million by Sept. 30 since the sale to eBay. That is more than half of the world’s roughly 206 million broadband Internet users, according to International Data Corp. Each day, 250,000 people download Skype, compared with 130,000 before the sale."
So if you are able to make a $1 per month, it is around 1.6 Billion per year. Add some advertising like ebay goodies or Google ADSENSE, Ebay should be able to show to the investors that the investment was worthwhile.
Another fact that surprised me was that most of the skype users are concentrated in the Asia and Europe. Of all the users, only one fifth speaks English, and the highest number seems to be Chinese.
The article also tells us about slowing of Skype and it’s competitors, not only the smaller outfits (a swarm of it) offering VOIP solutions, big boys like Adobe and Microsoft are entering the arena. Remember Netscape, dominant browser untill MS released the IE. Skype might go the same way.
"The biggest challenge facing eBay is that swarms of competitors, and not just Yahoo and Google, have climbed out of the woodwork, experts say. Besides smaller rivals like Vonage, Jajah or VoipBuster, which is based in Cologne, Skype faces Adobe, the digital document maker, which is developing its own Skype-like phone products, and Microsoft, whose Office Communicator software for businesses enables Internet phoning.

Traditional phone companies like Deutsche Telekom and France Télécom, and their competitors in the fixed-line and Internet businesses, are also giving away free minutes and Internet phone calls to retain customers.

In China, Skype’s biggest market, the leading Internet phone company is QQ, owned by the Chinese operator Tencent Holdings, which says it has more than twice the number of users as Skype."
I think it is time, you read the article. Beacause I feel like changing the header to say, "Skype is on the way down"

Links;
Kevin O’Brien’s Article on IHT

Source: snapvoip.blogspot.com

I was reading a comprehensive 3 page article today about how skype, the disruptive VOIP technology is doing in the market place. The article covers a lot of ground and shows off wishes of Ebay and the rest of us, what skype should be. Ebay paid 2.6 Billion to aquire Skype and the figure might run high as 4.1 Billion if all the promised bonuses were paid.
The Ebay has a task of proving to it’s investors that it made a good purchase and skype will be profitable. It is not an easy task but not a difficult one either, if the numbers are correct.
Currently, there are about 206 Million broadband users worldwide. Broad band users tend to use VOIP IP Telephony applications like Skype, better than the dial up users. But Dial up users also try out these VOIP applications but I am not sure if it worth the effort. Initially there were many dial up users that used Skype in old days but the current bandwidth requirements and tag along improvements make it, that you have a broadband connection. And the world is heading that way. Some Users in Japan getting 100MB fiber to home for the same price I am paying for DSL in USA. USA is yet to catch up with broadband deployment with the countries like Japan and South Korea.

What I was surprised about the numbers on skype was the user base and it’s distribution. According to the article; "The number of registered users, those who have downloaded the free Skype phone software, more than doubled to 136 million by Sept. 30 since the sale to eBay. That is more than half of the world’s roughly 206 million broadband Internet users, according to International Data Corp. Each day, 250,000 people download Skype, compared with 130,000 before the sale."
So if you are able to make a $1 per month, it is around 1.6 Billion per year. Add some advertising like ebay goodies or Google ADSENSE, Ebay should be able to show to the investors that the investment was worthwhile.
Another fact that surprised me was that most of the skype users are concentrated in the Asia and Europe. Of all the users, only one fifth speaks English, and the highest number seems to be Chinese.
The article also tells us about slowing of Skype and it’s competitors, not only the smaller outfits (a swarm of it) offering VOIP solutions, big boys like Adobe and Microsoft are entering the arena. Remember Netscape, dominant browser untill MS released the IE. Skype might go the same way.
"The biggest challenge facing eBay is that swarms of competitors, and not just Yahoo and Google, have climbed out of the woodwork, experts say. Besides smaller rivals like Vonage, Jajah or VoipBuster, which is based in Cologne, Skype faces Adobe, the digital document maker, which is developing its own Skype-like phone products, and Microsoft, whose Office Communicator software for businesses enables Internet phoning.

Traditional phone companies like Deutsche Telekom and France Télécom, and their competitors in the fixed-line and Internet businesses, are also giving away free minutes and Internet phone calls to retain customers.

In China, Skype’s biggest market, the leading Internet phone company is QQ, owned by the Chinese operator Tencent Holdings, which says it has more than twice the number of users as Skype."
I think it is time, you read the article. Beacause I feel like changing the header to say, "Skype is on the way down"

Links;
Kevin O’Brien’s Article on IHT

Source: snapvoip.blogspot.com

I was reading a comprehensive 3 page article today about how skype, the disruptive VOIP technology is doing in the market place. The article covers a lot of ground and shows off wishes of Ebay and the rest of us, what skype should be. Ebay paid 2.6 Billion to aquire Skype and the figure might run high as 4.1 Billion if all the promised bonuses were paid.
The Ebay has a task of proving to it’s investors that it made a good purchase and skype will be profitable. It is not an easy task but not a difficult one either, if the numbers are correct.
Currently, there are about 206 Million broadband users worldwide. Broad band users tend to use VOIP IP Telephony applications like Skype, better than the dial up users. But Dial up users also try out these VOIP applications but I am not sure if it worth the effort. Initially there were many dial up users that used Skype in old days but the current bandwidth requirements and tag along improvements make it, that you have a broadband connection. And the world is heading that way. Some Users in Japan getting 100MB fiber to home for the same price I am paying for DSL in USA. USA is yet to catch up with broadband deployment with the countries like Japan and South Korea.

What I was surprised about the numbers on skype was the user base and it’s distribution. According to the article; "The number of registered users, those who have downloaded the free Skype phone software, more than doubled to 136 million by Sept. 30 since the sale to eBay. That is more than half of the world’s roughly 206 million broadband Internet users, according to International Data Corp. Each day, 250,000 people download Skype, compared with 130,000 before the sale."
So if you are able to make a $1 per month, it is around 1.6 Billion per year. Add some advertising like ebay goodies or Google ADSENSE, Ebay should be able to show to the investors that the investment was worthwhile.
Another fact that surprised me was that most of the skype users are concentrated in the Asia and Europe. Of all the users, only one fifth speaks English, and the highest number seems to be Chinese.
The article also tells us about slowing of Skype and it’s competitors, not only the smaller outfits (a swarm of it) offering VOIP solutions, big boys like Adobe and Microsoft are entering the arena. Remember Netscape, dominant browser untill MS released the IE. Skype might go the same way.
"The biggest challenge facing eBay is that swarms of competitors, and not just Yahoo and Google, have climbed out of the woodwork, experts say. Besides smaller rivals like Vonage, Jajah or VoipBuster, which is based in Cologne, Skype faces Adobe, the digital document maker, which is developing its own Skype-like phone products, and Microsoft, whose Office Communicator software for businesses enables Internet phoning.

Traditional phone companies like Deutsche Telekom and France Télécom, and their competitors in the fixed-line and Internet businesses, are also giving away free minutes and Internet phone calls to retain customers.

In China, Skype’s biggest market, the leading Internet phone company is QQ, owned by the Chinese operator Tencent Holdings, which says it has more than twice the number of users as Skype."
I think it is time, you read the article. Beacause I feel like changing the header to say, "Skype is on the way down"

Links;
Kevin O’Brien’s Article on IHT

Source: snapvoip.blogspot.com

I wondering when this is going to happen. After getting used to Gatekeepers, Asterisk, Ser and OpenSer running on Linux boxes, never had to worry about blue screens. Except occasional desktop (M$) lockups when using VOIP clients.
But now you can have them all! Steve Balmer has clearly announced that Microsoft od M$ as it is affectionately known on this blog, will enter the VOIP market in much bigger way. Desktops and the servers will be included in the push.
I begin to wonder if this is going in the way of Vista’s Security software. Just that others will have to work harder to run them on Vista. So the M$’s VOIP protocols will have a closer connections to Vista’s OS kernel and the others will have to ride the external module wave.
So I wonder how skype will run on Vista?
The news is that CEO Steve Ballmer has announced at a company conference in Japan on Monday, that the company will formally enter the market early next year by incorporating the VOIP technology with its operating system. According to reports, Ballmer has said Microsoft’s VoIP rollout, which would include videoconferencing as well as VoIP, will be combined with e-mail, video and instant messaging technologies. This deployment would not only be a part of its operating system, but also be incorporated in desktop applications and server software.
Looks like they finally got their systems integrated with Teleo, the VOIP startup M$ acquired last year. Well these guys seems not to give a dime for anti-competitive nature of this deployment. I hope at least EU will notice this.
One thing is for sure, you will be able to understand the M$ support lines better.