Bandspeeds AirMaestro gives smaller businesses an enterprise-level wireless LAN option at a comfortable price. The technology proved reliable for wireless data and voice clients, but problems with the centralized management features might prove daunting to the smallest of companies. – With its AirMaestro solution, Bandspeed provides many enterprise-grade wireless LAN capabilities to small [...]
Friday, January 30, 2009
Rumors of a Dell smartphone are running rampant, but what features might the company include, and is it smart to go after Apple’s iPhone or tackle the BlackBerry set? One analyst weighs in. – If Dell is planning on debuting a smartphone at the GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona in February, the company [...]
Friday, January 30, 2009
Chip maker Qualcomm complains it spent $550 million for spectrum and hundreds of millions more to build a mobile television platform and followed the rules laid out by the Congress and the FCC. Qualcomm is ready to move into Channel 55 the day after the Feb. 17 deadline for broadcasters to switch from analog to [...]
Friday, January 30, 2009
DOD Hero SKYPE Phone amp;lt; / Style Definitions / p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal msostyleparent:amp;quot;amp;quot;; margin:0in; marginbottom:.0001pt; msopagination:none; msolayoutgridalign:none; textautospace:none; fontsize:12.0pt; fontfamily:amp;quot;Times New Romanamp;quot;; msofareastfontfamily:amp;quot;Times New Romanamp;quot;; h3 msostylenext:Normal; margin:0in;… Source Related posts £15 p/m Inq Mini 3G 75min, Ultd Internet, Email, Skype (ITProPortal) (0) [pdf09] Mayor Bloomberg rides the Skype (Planet Intertwingly) (0) Zoiper is the First 3rd Party Softphone to [...]
Friday, January 30, 2009
Users can make free Skype calls without using a computer with the Eee video phone AiGuru SV1. Full published article at: http://www.itpro.co.uk/609688/asus-releases-skype-video-phone Source Related posts £15 p/m Inq Mini 3G 75min, Ultd Internet, Email, Skype (ITProPortal) (0) [pdf09] Mayor Bloomberg rides the Skype (Planet Intertwingly) (0) [$20.95] SKYPE Phone by DODHero (Deal of the Day) (0)
Friday, January 30, 2009
From VoIP to Video, the Service Provider Opportunity But there is a growing offering that many providers and equipment vendors have yet to recognize as being a market-changing service video calling. Visit the original post at: TMCnet-News Source Related posts £15 p/m Inq Mini 3G 75min, Ultd Internet, Email, Skype (ITProPortal) (0) [pdf09] Mayor Bloomberg rides the Skype (Planet [...]
Friday, January 30, 2009
Enhancing VoIP Service Delivery with Carrier-Grade Media Gateways Let’s face it, what good are services if you can’t deliver them to subscribers? Visit the original post at: TMCnet-News Source Related posts £15 p/m Inq Mini 3G 75min, Ultd Internet, Email, Skype (ITProPortal) (0) [pdf09] Mayor Bloomberg rides the Skype (Planet Intertwingly) (0) [khabor.com] Call Anywhere in US for Free with [...]
Friday, January 30, 2009
It’s impossible for eBay to report quarterly earnings without the usual deliberations about what the company could, would or should do with Skype. So it comes as no surprise that media hounded eBay CEO John Donahoe about the VOIP unit, one of those anomalous acquisitions that people still scratch their heads about. For £1.8 billion, [...]
Friday, January 30, 2009
The Research in Motion (RIM)-designed BlackBerry Storm, sold through Verizon, carries a manufacturing cost of almost $203, compared to the Apple iPhone 3G, which costs less than $175 to produce, according to iSuppli. – Verizon is hoping the BlackBerry Storm, designed by Research in Motion (RIM), will be a serious competitor to [...]
Thursday, January 29, 2009
With rumors swirling about eBay looking for a Skype buyer, a new tidbit about a possible sale has the business world chattering away — word has it that none other than Google is considering snapping up the auction site’s VoIP cash-cow. While the gossip doesn’t exactly scream totally credible, eBay’s recent crappy financial report give [...]
Thursday, January 29, 2009
ABI Research says mobile and wireless handset sales rocked in the first half of 2008, but bombed in the latter half thanks to the recession. The year closed with 1.21 billion handsets shipped for an annual growth of 5.4 percent compared with 16 percent growth from 2007. ABI expects 2009 to be a good year [...]
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Dell is planning to enter the smartphone market as early as February with several different devices that look to compete with RIM’s BlackBerry and the Apple iPhone, according to the Wall Street Journal. The Dell smartphones will use either the Google Android operating system or Microsoft Windows Mobile, according to the Journal’s sources. [...]
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Nokia, the world’s top handset producer, is rolling out three new cell phones that the company hopes will increase its market share at a time when many consumers have cut back their spending. The new models are the Nokia 6700 classic cell phone with GPS, the 6303 model and the 2700 model. – [...]
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Found under: skype , windows mobile , smartphone , pocketpc , SMS , With IM for Skype you can enjoy Skype calls and chat on your Windows Mobile. Functions With IM for Skype you can talk with other Skype users all over the world. IM for Skype is based on SkypeOut service that allows users [...]
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Amazon has the D-Link [DPH-50U] Skype USB Phone Adapter for not the best price or the worst price ever. It’s $23 – $10 mail-in-rebate = $13! Features: Turn any normal phone into a VoIP phone with Skype Call your computer from anywhere and make calls Source Related posts Vtech 7100 cordless phone/usb voip phone (Vista Forums) (1) USB 20 [...]
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Fring’s Last.fm add-on will play out first on Symbian S60 phones. (Credit: Fring) Although Fring has long let you chat with friends over Skype, and IM, Facebook, and Twitter, the recent introduction of a Last.fm add-on is the start-up’s first foray into streaming content. Starting this week, Symbian Series 60 users with the latest version [...]
Thursday, January 29, 2009
DUBLIN, Ireland – Research and Markets ( Source Related posts £15 p/m Inq Mini 3G 75min, Ultd Internet, Email, Skype (ITProPortal) (0) [pdf09] Mayor Bloomberg rides the Skype (Planet Intertwingly) (0) [khabor.com] Call Anywhere in US for Free with Ooma VoIP System (Daily Khabor @ Khabor.Com) (0)
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Hello fringsters, We are aware of the Skype login problem that some of you may experience in the last couple of hours. Our staff is working to solve it ASAP. We apologize for the inconvenience and hope you have already upgraded to 3.37 so you can enjoy some great music on Last.fm Source Related posts £15 p/m Inq [...]
Thursday, January 29, 2009
One of the more useful Firefox plugins has been the Skype add-in that changes any phone number into a clickable link to make a Skype call. But somebody got the grand idea to change the plugin with an upgrade so that it shortens with elipses the phone number like this: Huh? Hey, put that full [...]
Thursday, January 29, 2009
AT&T’s profit fell in the fourth quarter on high subsidies to support the iPhone. [ Reuters ] Jeffrey Sachs believes Obama can turn the crushing economic crisis into the launch of a new age of sustainable development. [ Guardian ] If there’s just too much information on Twitter, Filttr is here to advise you on [...]
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Skype will introduce new applications for its VoIP software at next month’s Mobile World Congress in Spain, Pocket-lint maintains in a Monday report citing a statement from the company. Specifics are unknown, but the company has said that the new … Source Related posts Yeah, It’s Popular: Five Million Skype 3G iPhone App Downloads In Four Days (Epicenter) [...]
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
NEW YORK, NY (MARKET WIRE) Raketu, a leading global Internet communications, information, and entertainment company, today announced its Raketu calling at rates at up to 65% lower than Skype — perfect for consumers and businesses alike. Raketu provides the most flexibility of calling with computer to computer, computer to phone, and phone to phone calls. [...]
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
While AT T reported it added more wireless subscribers in the fourth quarter, the telecommunications giant watched its profits fall as it had to pay high subsidies to support Apple’s iPhone and more consumers disconnected their traditional land lines. AT T is also looking to cut spending and the company has announced 12,000 layoffs. [...]
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
The United States and Scandinavian countries top a new survey that measures usage of cell phones, handset devices, smart phones, desktops, laptops and networking devices. The survey, developed by the London Business School, measures the use of different communications technologies in 50 different countries. – HELSINKI (Reuters) – The United States and [...]
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
SAN ANTONIO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Mark Collier, a leading telephony and voice-over-IP (VoIP) security scientist, author, and blogger, today announced the release of his “VoIP Security Trends and Predictions for Source Related posts [khabor.com] Call Anywhere in US for Free with Ooma VoIP System (Daily Khabor @ Khabor.Com) (0) Yealink Release New Firmware for SIP-T2x Series IP phone (0) XCast Labs VoIP and [...]
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Back in 2005, we marveled at the success that Skype backers had in talking up the price of the company, eventually suckering convincing eBay to put together a $4 billion deal for it. This was what we dubbed the “Skype Billion-Dollar Buyout Plan” in which companies used press hype to create valuations far above their [...]
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Mobile VoIP and IM service fring, one of the more popular mobile communication services around, is experimenting with porting a bunch of third-party apps to the fring client and will be announcing a number of those in the course of this year. Today, fring is launching a custom mobile-optimized Last.fm music radio add-on that brings [...]
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
I saw a couple of items this morning that really struck me. Skype and Bebo may both be for sale. The Bebo rumor is more surprising than Skype because Bebo was only acquired a year or so ago. But both illustrate something disturbing. The big Internet companies (Google, Yahoo, AOL, Microsoft) have literally spent billions [...]
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Skype, which recently announced its support for Android and Java handsets, might unveil, during MWC 2009, new versions of its mobile application. According to Pocket-lint, Skype will be presenting new software “for various operating systems used in the mobile space”. We’re not sure what this means, but we could see dedicated Skype apps for iPhone, [...]
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
The nation’s No. 2 carrier sees both wireline and wireless subscriptions tumble but posts a higher-than-expected growth in its FiOS television and high-speed Internet business. – NEW YORK, Jan 27 (Reuters) – Verizon Communications reported a rise in quarterly net profit and higher-than-expected growth in its FiOS television and high-speed Internet business. The [...]
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By Jill Stanek Aside from the controversy over the legality and safety of telemed RU-486 abortions, Iowa Republican Congressman Steve King wants to know if federal tax dollars are financing it. Rep. King is currently circulating a request to colleagues to sign on to a letter he will soon send to HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius asking whether taxpayers are underwriting Planned Parenthood’s…
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Plantronics (NYSE: PLT) Tuesday reported lower profit in its third quarter than a year ago, but still beat Wall Street’s expectations, setting UC revenue records along the way.
Net income for the quarter was $30.9 million, or 71 cents a share, down slightly from $31.6 million, or 64 cents a share a year ago. Adjusted net income was 75 cents per share, topping analyst’s forecasts of 68 cents per share, and topping last year’s adjusted income of 66 cents per share. The lower profits were primarily due to Plantronic buying back some 2.1 million shares.
Revenue, meanwhile was $183.2 million, up slightly from $181.6 million during the same period a year ago.
Plantronics said it expected a strong fourth quarter, forecasting revenue of between $175 million and $180 million for the quarter, with net income of 63-68 cents per share. Analysts expected revenue of $1877.6 million and adjusted earnings per share of 67 cents.
During yesterday’s earnings call, Ken Kannappan, Plantronics’ president and chief executive, said the company set a record in the quarter for UC revenue, which saw 90 percent growth due to rapid adoption of UC globally. The company also saw 8 percent growth in office and contact center revenue.
“We continue to see broad adoption of UC across all size of enterprises in all major geographies,” he said. “Our investments in UC continued to yield solid results. And in the first nine months of fiscal 2012, we made good progress in differentiating our product line, as well as making huge strides in our corporate marketing and brand positioning.”
For more:
– see this release
– see this earnings call transcript from Seeking Alpha
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Plantronics pushing deeper into UC market with new products
Study: UC adoption rejuvenating headset market revenues
Plantronics CEO talks to Forbes about UC
Continue reading Plantronics 3Q earnings fall despite UC record revenues
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Recently I was approached by a local company to work with them to improve their technical infrastructure.
I have not worked with VOIP systems before. However I have in the past setup Asterisk and was using it successfully as a dialer.
This client is waiting for a VSC VMSx switch. I’m not familiar with it but they are asking for processing/gateway integration and hardware monitoring.
So with that being said here are a few questions:
1. I have searched around for a VMSx API to be add/remove balances from calling cards, however I cannot find one. Can someone point me in the right direction?
2. Hardware monitoring, can that be setup in VMS? For example, to know when all the trunks are being filled to 90% capacity or when there is no more internet, etc.
3. I’m still confused about something. So they have this softswitch sitting in a local data center. They have clients that have gateways setup in their locations. When I worked with Asterisk, we had a switch with all the ip phones plugged into. That switch was connected to asterisk with just one cable to the secondary lan card. If I don’t understand correctly the way it should be setup is.
a. Softphone connects to a switch.
b. The switch to the gateway.
4. What about for those that already have an existing PBX or want a complete PBX setup. From what I understand there is some type of module that you can get which simply extends the PBX to make outgoing calls route through the VMS softswitch in the data center. Is it essentially also a gateway module?
Sorry for the novice questions but I really need to know the answer to these questions :)
Thanks in advance!
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Citrix Systems (Nasdaq: CTXS) reported strong earnings this week, but the company plans to increase acquisitions in the coming year and to reorganize its sales force, which prompted the company to issue a lackluster forecast for the coming year.
Revenue across the board saw a steep increase, with the company reporting net revenues of $619.4 million in the quarter, a 17 percent increase from the $530 million it reported a year ago. GAAP net income was $108.7 million, 58 cent per share, up from $94.4 million, 49 cents per share, a year ago. The 66 cents quarterly adjusted EPS beat Wall Street estimated of 65 cents.
“Greater diversity in our products and channel, combined with a compelling vision, is driving more C-level engagement as well as more up-sell and cross-sell opportunities,” said Mark Templeton, president and chief executive officer for Citrix. “As a result, we are seeing more strategic deals, more use of our products as an end-to-end system, and deeper engagement with our customers through services.”
Citrix has worked to roll out more robust mobile, cloud and desktop solutions, and it has begun to pay off.
For the year, Citrix reported record revenue of $2.2 billion. Its desktop solution revenue accounted for $1.3 billion of that, 12.5 percent higher than a year ago, and included 14 percent y-o-y growth in the fourth quarter, with revenue of $369 million. Data center and cloud solutions revenue increased 29.1 percent to $385.5 million, online services revenue rose 18.6 percent to $427.7 million and revenue from other products increase 46.4 percent to $114.3 million.
Citrix said revenue increased in the America’s region by 16 percent, rose in the EMEA region by 12 percent and increased in the Pacific region by 37 percent.
For 2012, Citrix said revenue should be in the range of $2.49 billion to $2.51 billion; GAAP diluted earnings per share is targeted to be in the range of $1.88 to $1.97.
For the first quarter, expect revenue to be in the range of $555 million to $565 million with GAAP diluted earnings per share in the range of 30-31 cents.
The thin first quarter results, said CFO David Henshall, come from the company’s plans to look to make acquisitions, but those deals should become accretive later in the year.
For more:
– see this release
– see this Motley Fool article
Special Report: Enterprise Communications earnings in the fourth quarter 2011
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The changing face of videoconferencing: It’s getting cheaper and better
Citrix rolls out Android app for GoToMeeting users
Citrix launches GoToMeeting with no-charge HD videoconference add-on
Citrix’s Cloud.com purchase adds to its core strength; Microsoft gets top ranking from ABI
Continue reading Citrix reports record revenue, soft outlook for 1Q12
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If you haven’t read pal Martin Geddes latest post on the Future of Communications entitled Peak Telecom, you are missing something that is likely either something you have likely said, thought, heard someone say in private or really wished you had. It’s a stunningly brilliant piece of writing that leads you to wonder, “what is Martin going to say next” as you read through it.
This post is every bit as important as Alec Saunders 2005 post entitled The Voice 2.0 Manifesto in my opinion as far as laying things out or the famed Pulver Purple Minutes post. It is worthy of your time as it may impact your work or livelihood.
So everyone knows it was Martin who first suggested me and my agency to Nokia back in 2005 to help them decipher “social media” long before many knew what “social media” and blogging was really all about. That led to my development of the Nokia Blogger Relations program, and in turn gave birth to Nokia’s Social Media efforts, something I’m now finally allowed to admit after getting permission recently.
It was Martin’s clear cut thinking back then that foresaw the changing landscape of how media would impact the mobile world. Now in his post he’s laid it all out pinpointing where the changes are coming from, and further pinning the operators into the dumb pipe corner.
Continue reading Read Martin Geddes Latest Post-Your Job My Be At Stake If You Don’t
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Just as we’re seeing Over the Top (OTT) in voice and data service impacting the legacy mobile operators and telcos, there’s also a movement afoot thats going to challenge the legacy video conferencing providers like BT, Verizon, Glowpoint (I’m a shareholder) and the rest who have been in the business of white glove video conferncing services, operating exchanges or hosting bridging services.
Yesterday pal Larry Lisser, who is known in the telecom industry as the person to go to to revive sales, penned a post supportive of disruptive Silicon Valley startup, Vidtel (a Comunicano client) who are playing the channel game to open up the legacy room and desk based video conferncing system users of Polycom, Lifesize, Cisco/Tandberg gear to be able to go what founder and ex VP Marketing at Broadsoft Scott Wharton (who is now blogging) is doing with their “any to any’” video bridging service called MeetMe that is offered at downright disruptive prices that turns the whole market on its side. What Vidtel is doing is addressing the already turned on and tuned in video conferencing user base and making their rooms and desktop video systems easily accessible to CounterPath Bria and Bria mobile users, as well as those who are Skype or GoogleTalk centric.
In the post, that was aimed at getting channel oriented telecom resellers to understand why video is so important to them, Lisser points our reasons and rationale as to why the channel is now meaningful to the video conferencing market, a belief also echoed by client Telesphere who offers VideoConnect through their growing reseller partners to sell in to their enterprise customers. In the case of Telesphere they deliver Broadsoft/Polycom/Glowpoint powered video conferencing service that also offers point to point video calling on a range of devices and over the CounterPath powered Bria 3 for Broadworks softphone.
These are reseller channel sold solutions that show a deep understanding of the how to sell versus how to follow. CounterPath, Telesphere and Vidtel along with the established players in Cisco and Polycom, are all using the sales channel to sell through others, not only direct. This is not far different from how Logitech/Lifesize is taking the LifeSize Connections service, or what I call SightSpeed for Business on steroids, where they combined the best of both SightSpeed and Lifesize to bring a lightweight telepresence offering to market and are making it available through leading telecom vTailer (vertical etailer) VoIP Supply (also a Comunicano client) to reach into an already established customer base.
Larry’s premise is further underscored by ClearOne’s purchase today of Israel based VCon, thus showing the world that Polycom, long the audio turned video conferencing leader will have some new competition. ClearOne already sells through channel with companies like eBuyNow, operators of the Skype shop selling the ClearOne Chat 60, and VoIP Supply pushng both the Skype friendly consumer grade speakerphones and the more robust higher end models. Now they’ll take those same channels and follow LifeSize/Logitech’s lead and seek to propel sales through those vtailers like VoIPSupply and others.
All this leads to disruption. Skype started it, but they’re clearly not the end game any longer. Cisco and Polycom aren’t exactly sitting idle as Vidtel and Vidyo disrupt the market, nor are any executives rolling over and playing dead because of Google Hangouts. Companies like Citrix, with GoToMeeting/HD Faces are making great inroads, selling not so much through channel, but via a very strong direct marketing effort online.
What this all means is the traditional players have to change, adapt or die. It’s survival of not only the fittest any longer, but also of the fast and nimble.
Continue reading Video Conferencing Is Heating Up, The Established Will Be Challenged
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