When Voxeo announced their latest round of $9M last week, some of the headlines referred to them as an IVR company. IVR? Seemed like an understatement for a company that has not so quietly become a small powerhouse in next generation voice deployments....
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Archive for November, 2009
The IVR: The Gift that Keeps on Giving?
Frontier continuing to move ahead with purchasing Verizon landline biz…
Given that I'm a Fairpoint customer, and wrote previously about Fairpoint's bankruptcy, I continue to watch with a bit of fascination the ongoing effort by Frontier to purchase Verizon's landline business in a range of other states. Recently, three m...
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Google Voice-Gizmo5 Combination Means Free Inbound, Outbound Calling
TechCrunch reported this morning that Google has bought Gizmo5 for $30 million. Gizmo5 is a SIP-based Internet phone service that competes with Skype. Such an acquisition would make sense, given the already-close relationship between Google's Voice s...
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Progress and Thoughts on the Process
I finally made some progress on the site tonight, and I’ve been thinking about how I want to do a few things:
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Ribbit Mobile No Google Voice Clone
The most common reaction to the newly introduced Ribbit Mobile service is that it's a Google Voice competitor. In some ways that's true, but there are significant differences between the two. The main one is that Ribbit Mobile makes one's existing mo...
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