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Chris Kranky
Port me up Scotty
TechCrunch is reporting that Google is planning to add number portability to the Google Voice suite. Today when you sign up for Google Voice, you get a new phone number and in the future you may be able to "port" one of your own telephone numbers to work with Google Voice. That's all well and […]
Chris Koehncke
Voice mash-up, great NEW idea, please keep it a secret
Follow my math here. There are 270m people in the United States who are more than 5 years of age, 48.7% of those polled said they'd been to the dentist within the last 6 months, so if you figure about half of us go twice a year that's 270m dental visits per year. If we […]
Chris Koehncke
Broadband, too expensive in the US for me
Verizon Wireless is busy launching a highly unremarkable value proposition of a discounted netbook computer along with a wireless broadband card. Now having just effectively shutdown the ill fated Verizon Voice Hub yesterday, you’d think they’d of learned some lessons. Namely that a $199 device, 2 year contract and $30+ a service [...]
Chris Koehncke
Verizon Voice Hub: Life in the fast lane
The Wall Street Journal reports that Verizon is pulling the Voice Hub from their retail stores and will focus the product/service via “on-line†sales. This is clearly a euphanisim for “we’re killing the productâ€. Word on the street has it Verizon sold < 10,000 units in its short 3 month life span, despite spending [...]
Chris Koehncke
Twilio mash it up good
I’ve watched in amazement the number of start-ups offering telephone API services. Every VC warmed up their check book after witnessing the ridiculous acquisition of Ribbit by BT UK for $105 million. Surely if BT acquired this company, others were looking to buy as well and thus there should be other “look alike†Ribbits for [...]
Chris Koehncke
Cloud computing for telecom applications?
Cloud computing for telecom? Is that a real possibility? I’m not talking about a “Verizon†offering cloud computing, but rather be a customer of Amazon ECS. Logically it make sense, but will they see the light? Or will someone else have to show them the way. As voice communications moves toward IP or VoIP the […]
Chris Koehncke