Category Archives: grand central

Application of the Week: Ooma -Yes! We’ve hit the bottom!

July 19, 2007 – 7:47 am

How long have you been saying that carrier based telephony is a race to the bottom? Well, you can stop saying it, as we’ve arrived.  When you purchase an Ooma phone, you never need to pay for your minutes again. You might shell out four Bennys for the privilege, but that’s it.  Yes, that’s it folks - [...]

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Walled Gardens… End of an Era?

July 3, 2007 – 5:31 pm

The more I think about Google’s acquisition of Grand Central, the more I see it as a watershed moment in telephony.  Unlike Yahoo!, AOL and nearly every other large telephony concern, Google now supports, at the same time, open Internet standards and connections to the PSTN.  This is truly valuable, and unique, and should be [...]

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iPhoney Simulator

June 21, 2007 – 10:58 am

Chopi, the Thomas Howe Company designer, caught this link today of an iPhone UI simulator. Steve Jobs has announced that the API for the iPhone will be Safari (after bashing the browser as an interface just a few weeks earlier). As I wrote about earlier in the Jaduka post this morning, you can [...]

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Insanely Great: Grand Central

June 7, 2007 – 11:12 am

As regular readers may have figured out by now, I’m not a big fan of most carrier applications, as I am unconvinced of their long term value due to commoditization, and customer eduction and habituation issues. For me, it’s got to be really (really) good before I’ll fall in love with it. [...]

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