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Chris Kranky
Skype makes a wrong turn
I love Skype and use it regularly, to call across the river or across the world. The client has everything I need in a nice compact format, easy to call someone, 1 click, send an IM, send a file, I can find you if I don’t already have your contact details, the voice quality is […]
Chris Koehncke
RingCentral & gotvmail
Voice services for the small business owner have emerged from companies like RingCentral and gotvmail.com and these services have been gaining traction for good reason. Small businesses all want to sound bigger and more professional than they really are and more importantly want callers (who are likely to be looking to be a customer) to [...]
Chris Koehncke
Desktop video
I awaken each morning whether the world has checked into a psychiatric hospital or whether I should. Technology bloggers hoping to curry favor with the supplier heap vast amounts of praise in the silliest of products. Yesterday, I commented on video conferencing systems, clearly they’ve got better and less expensive and as a result [...]
Chris Koehncke
Video on my desktop, nah
Video conferencing systems continue to make news. And why not, they’re following Kranky’s law for increased adoption, make it better than what was before and do it cheaper. The new system from firms like Polycom, Tandberg, LifeSize, Cisco — all sport HD-quality video with wideband audio codecs for a stunning visual experience. [...]
Chris Koehncke
CallVantage, nope tried that
AT&T announced the shuttering of their CallVantage consumer VoIP service after several years of operation. The launch of CallVantage was made with great fanfare, touting a number of unique features built after AT&T spent millions of dollars building all the underlying technology from the ground up. AT&T then went on to spend [...]
Chris Koehncke
Twitter this
“Eating Quiznos on the deck on the first nice weekend of the yearâ€, came the Twitter message to me from a VP of Marketing from some start-up company. This is news? Like I care or more importantly why do I care? In our new Aryan world, it seems, everyone must be interested in what I’m […]
Chris Koehncke