August 10, 2007 – 9:52 am
If you were to ask me, I would say the twenty year old software engineer has a distinct advantage over the older telephone guys (such as me) in the realm of innovation. Since the barriers to entry to deploying a service provider have fallen through the floor, the larger challenge is not in complex [...]
Alec Saunders did a fantastic job digging into some of the tech issues in this entry his blog. Alec, I thought YOU were the marketing guy and I was the engineer. Good job, old man.
Thomas S. Howe - http://www.thomashowe.com
Next Generation Telephony Consulting
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(508) 364-9972
I had a pleasant conversation with Ooma CEO Andrew Frame last night. No, really, it was mostly pleasant. Apparently, of my three blog readers, one of them is an Ooma employee. Hey - big shout out. Hollywood in the house.
So, I’m not going to go into too much depth here about our conversation. [...]
As I was being a bit lazy (on a conference call), I caught this post from the latest Apple insider. Mike Abramsky, an analyst, details how he believes the iPhone will mature :
Abramsky speculated that upcoming iPhone software updates would include new widgets, peer-to-peer applications (chat, picture messaging, social networking), location-based services, MMS support, home [...]
One big difference between the Web world and the telecom world are standards. I don’t mean that they use different standards (although they do), they have a different approach the standards entirely. Other than the two worlds of standards represented by the Telco and Web world, there’s a third sort of standard - an implementation [...]
A massive shout-out to my man Dean at Cognation, who has taken up my recent challenge about the future success (or lack thereof) of Ooma. From his recent comment :
Ok Thomas I’m prepared to step up and take that bet from you, easy money in my books.
In 12 months from now I bet that [...]
Recently, the man in the Purple Shirt challenged the community to finally come up with compelling real time communication services. I suppose it was spoken during a moment of frustration for Jeff, as this industry has spent a lot of time and energy making these wonderful IP based technologies, but we are still doing pretty [...]
Oh my, Google is on to me. As I logged into my blog this morning, a large red box stopped me in my tracks. Apparently, Blogger thinks that this log is a spam bog. What’s a spam blog?
As with many powerful tools, blogging services can be both used and abused. The ease of [...]
I’m often asked to give an examples of a business case for a deep integration of the business process with telephones, so here’s a good one for you: Morisky Surveys.
Morisky surveys ask four questions that can determine, with fairly high accuracy, a patient’s probability of adhering to a course of drug treatment. In other words, the survey can tell [...]
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 - [...]