Yesterday Google made another fascinating move in the telephony space... letting people use Google Voice with their existing phone number. This is key because previously if you wanted to try out Google Voice you had to get a new phone number that was ...
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Archive for October, 2009
Google enters the hosted voicemail game – Google Voice now lets you keep your existing phone number
Is anyone surprised Fairpoint filed for bankruptcy? (How’s that landline biz in 2009?)
From the "Duh! What were they thinking?" desk, the big news up there in the northeastern part of the US is that our major local landline provider, Fairpoint Communications, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection today. Last year, Fairpoint pai...
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eComm Europe in Amsterdam this week (Oct 28-30) – THE show for communications disruption
For those out there interested in how telephony - and all communications - is being disrupted, the place to be this week is very definitely eComm Europe in Amsterdam. It's definitely a gathering of the "tribe" of people who are...
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In Network Neutrality War, AT&T vs. Google Sounds Like Republicans vs. Democrats
So it's now official: network neutrality is about Republicans versus Democrats. Evidence of the parallel was plentiful leading up to the FCC's recent notice of proposed rulemaking, when many public statements on the subject sounded like partisan rhet...
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Is the Bay Area a Hub for Telephony Innovation?
I've been wondering. The Bay Area is well documented as the engine of innovation for web services, social networking and more. Some might argue even too well documented. But can the same be said about it for the telephony arena?As someone who used to ...
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