If you ever watched the later seasons of 24, you’ll recall that Jack and his buddies at the Counter Terrorist Unit were always using Cisco Telepresence for video-conferencing. That was no surprise. John Chambers, Cisco’s CEO, has long thought that Cisco should be thought of as not just the big dog of networking, but of [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Telecomm/VoIP'
Does Cisco buying Skype make sense?
September 2nd, 2010 · 1 Comment
Tags: Applications · Business · Cisco · Internet · Network · Telecomm/VoIP
Google Voice: The Web’s best free voice app
June 23rd, 2010 · Comments Off
I’m going to let you in on a little secret. I hate the telephone. I hate being interrupted when I’m in the middle of writing. I can’t stand mobile phones, although I use them, and I’ve gotten sick and tired of buying both new landline and mobile phones every other year. Those are some of [...]
Tags: Applications · Google · Internet · Network · Network Services · Telecomm/VoIP
No open-source Skype… yet
November 2nd, 2009 · 1 Comment
People love Skype, the VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) program, but Linux users have a love/hate relationship with it. Yes, Skype will run on some versions of Linux, but it doesn’t run on all of them and the Linux versions, 2.1-beta, lags far behind the Windows version. Still, Linux users really want Skype so every [...]
Tags: Applications · Development · Internet · Linux · Network · Open Source · Operating System · Telecomm/VoIP
Google will slowly let new Google Voice users in
June 26th, 2009 · Comments Off
Remember when Google first started Gmail and you had to have an invitation to get in? It’s going to be the same kind of deal with Google Voice. Google Voice, if you haven’t heard of it yet, is a free Web-based application that lets you control all your various phone numbers — work, home, mobile, [...]
Tags: Applications · Google · Network · Telecomm/VoIP
Google Voice makes your phone life better. Period.
March 19th, 2009 · Comments Off
Google makes headlines if it sneezes, so it isn’t surprising that the company’s latest announcement, a revision of a Web app called GrandCentral now renamed Google Voice, has caught the attention of the Webverse. What is it? Google Voice, which is currently available only to former GrandCentral customers, is a free Web-based application that lets [...]
Tags: Applications · Google · Telecomm/VoIP