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Nortel Wants To Make Voice 2.0 Apps Easier to Deploy

Source: andyabramson.blogs.com

Nortel wants to make 2.0 apps easier to deploy within the carrier and enterprise market, or so they are saying today at the Cable Show in New Orleans, LA.

Their new Adaptive Application Engine Software is supposed to make it possible for apps to be deployed faster and more synergistically. Clearly this puts them right at the throat and in the face of Broadsoft and Sylantro, two of the better known app server houses, but also shows they are taking aim at Alcatel-Lucent by coming out with this at the Cable Show?

Why is this important to the cable operators? As I remarked over the weekend about Vonage, and have stated about the cable MSO’s idea of VoIP (Voice 1.5), it’s largely no different than Voice 1.0, except a different source for billing and the wire the service traverses. By introducing the Voice 2.0 app server platform to the cable market Nortel is saying to the MSO’s "you can be better than the telco, offer more than the telcos, sooner than the telcos."

Why target the cable operators? Because cable operators for the most part are offering VoIP using SIP, except in some legacy markets where they sell there version of "Digital Voice," which is really PSTN or Centrex, and even then, the 2.0 stuff could be done at the network operations center more than likely.

Published on May 19th, 2008 under , , , , , , ,

Like Jangl, TalkPlus Losing Its Voice As Well

Source: gigaom.com

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Jangl, a Pleasanton, Calif-based start-up that launched with much fanfare and lot of promise ran out of time, and is headed towards an ignominious end. Venturebeat had first reported that Jangl was looking to sell itself earlier this week.

Jangl is not the only VoIP company to nosedive. We have heard from reliable sources that TalkPlus, San Mateo, Calif. Company is going nowhere fast. Michael Toepel, who was the CEO recently left, after the company failed to get new investment to keep going.

Jeff Black, founder is overseeing the operations but there is little hope for this company, which wants to sell its intellectual property. The company had raised about $5.5 million from Menlo Ventures back in 2006. I left Jeff a voice mail but so far no word from him. John Todd, CTO of the company is still with the company.

Back to Jangl! Cerda along with Jangl cofounder, Ben Dean and three other Jangl employees is joining Jajah, one company that seems to be defying the odds, mostly because it changed its overall strategy. “Jangl will sell its assets and there are people who are interested in this,” Cerda said. “The company was finding its grove in the marketplace, but our investors though it wasn’t enough for us to keep going, and decided not to fund us.” Jangl had raised about $9 million in VC funding from Storm Ventures, Labrador Ventures and Cardinal Ventures.

Jangl had started out by creating a bidirectional number that kept the privacy of the caller and call recipient intact. It later changed their tactics and tried to use social networking widgets to grow its customer base, in hope that it could make up the cost of free calling on advertising. The only place where it found success was amongst the online dating sites where it allowed people to make anonymous voice calls to each other.

Cerda explains the rise and fall of Jangl on his blog.

And in our opinion it needed another 18-24 months worth of runway to realize its fullest potential; but at the end of the day every venture capitalist has their own coefficient of venture. To that end, we took company forward into an M&A process. Unfortunately with much bigger things happening in the marketplace it turned out to be the worst time in a few years to be selling.

That last line should send a shudder down the spine of Web 2.0/Voice 2.0 entrepreneurs who are looking to sell and get out of Dodge.

Published on May 8th, 2008 under , , , , , , ,

Iotum Talk-Now requires beta testers

Source: voipcentral.org

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Smith has informed me that Iotum,the Voice 2.0 company is now seeking beta users for its latest product Iotum Talk-Now. The striking feature of Talk-Now is that it can share your contact specific availability to let people know when to reach. It shows the personalized availability of your favored contacts. It also notify you the status of a contact. The Blackberry 8700 and PEARL users can sign up here for the beta test.

Published on January 8th, 2007 under , , ,

Are we in Voice 2.0 era or 3.0 era?

Source: voipcentral.org

According to Paul D. Kretkowski,

Voice 2.0 is an umbrella term for a loosely defined set of technologies and ideas that let people transmit voice, data, video and instant messages via IP, anytime, from anywhere. It also implies a world where users, rather than a central authority, will have much greater control over who they communicate with, how and when.

He says that the Voice 2.0 applications would bring down telecom bills significantly. However, the implication of Voice 2.0 applications needs a lot of hard works and efforts.

Some of the technocrats consider that we are in the Voice 2.0 era.

Andy has asserted that we are in the Voice 3.0 Era. He claims,

In essence I think we are headed to Voice 3.0, which as pal Jeff Bonforte at Yahoo likes to say, brings 2.0 approaches to a 1.0 world. In my interpretation that’s taking Yahoo Voice or AIM PhoneLine and all they have to offer and applying them to a 1.0 world. That’s where friend and client David Beckemeyer’s PhoneGnome falls in my book. I would have previously thought of them as a 2.0 solution but really PhoneGnome is in the space of bridging both worlds and providing the first and true Voice 3.0 solution even before 2.0 was fully baked.

Published on December 29th, 2006 under , , ,

Building Communities, The VoIP Style

Source: voipcentral.org

r_ginger.jpg Two days ago we covered an interesting article on Miss Kandice Melonakos starting her own branded VoIP Service, KanTalk! Our favorite blogger Tom Keating covered it a bit harshly though.

Interestingly Tom found another press release about a website leveraging VoIP to build an online community with voice and video capabilities.

Christmas is the time people make home videos, send Christmas cards and call loved ones on the phone. Now they can do it free through a new family-oriented VoIP and video software called SweetTalk from Gingerbread TV. “The SweetTalk VoicePod is our gift to the families around the world,” says Christine Marie, also known as Mrs. Gingerbread. “And it’s just in time for the holidays.”

These show the arrival of Voice 2.0, and by the signs of it, this is going to make a huge impact in our daily life. Just imagine the few possibilities:

1. Music artists fans can hear the music on their VoicePods, can call the artists, send text messages, leave voice or even a video mails!
2. Communities of housewives and moms interacting with each over these VoIP clients, giving tips to build recipes, taking care of houses, babies etc like never before.
3. Young people from all over the globe can form hubs to discuss anything with more rich interactive experience.

Imagination is the only key. This is far more than what has been possible until now. All I want to say is this a great tool in hands of people to bring them closer at a fraction of cost. These VoIP services are not in competition with Skype, or Vonage, but are building parallel personalized services and communities catering niche clients.

Published on December 17th, 2005 under , , ,

FWD customers now can enjoy iotum

Source: voipcentral.org

FWD customers now can enjoy iotums Relevance Engine as an application on all the FWD Platforms.

Benefits:

iotum Relevance Engine can intelligently judge a calls relevance and route it to the most appropriate device across the network. Now FWD can easily deploy this application over its network to help its users get an enhanced communication experience. FWD also supports communication over other providers services.

User trials of iotum and FWD integration will start from early next year. Jeff pulver who has been voicing Voice 2.0 for a long time now will be expanding its market.

“As the value of network minutes decreases,” said FWD Founder and IP Communications Entrepreneur Jeff Pulver, “Voice 2.0 applications like the iotum Relevance Engine will become the new drivers of value in the communications industry.”

About FWD:

FWD is a Pulver.com company, founded by IP Communications entrepreneur, Jeff Pulver. It provides an open and innovative standards-based IP platform enabling people to have a better communications experience and enhance their control. The FWD platform allows users to communicate using VoIP, video, IM etc and supports the ability to communicate with other providers’ services.

About iotum

iotum is a Voice 2.0 company founded in 2003. iotum is setting out to shape a world where devices and services work seamlessly together to let people communicate with who they want, when they want and on the device they want.

Published on December 9th, 2005 under , , , ,

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