October 26, 2005 – 7:53 pm
MORE people are pissed. Vive le revolution!
Thomas S. Howe - http://www.thomashowe.com
Next Generation Telephony Consulting
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(508) 364-9972
October 26, 2005 – 7:29 pm
First, I need to take one company out of the running - Iotum. I have interests there that conflict with a completely impartial analysis. Let’s just say that Iotum is really rocking, and I completely agree with the always intelligent Jon Arnold.
So, Iotum aside, here’s my top three places:
1) Xelor Software : Xelor [...]
October 26, 2005 – 7:26 pm
Can you believe that it costs me $5.00 an hour to do this? I’m at the Internet Telephony show in LA, and they charge us $5.00 an hour for WiFi access, and then they limit the bandwidth to 64kbps. They are so generous. And I’m not the only pissed off one, either. I say we [...]
October 26, 2005 – 12:16 pm
Well, there’s a marked difference between the Pulver show and the IT show. At the last Pulver show, I noticed a considerable lack of small companies, leading me to believe that it was growing harder to have a small company in the VoIP space. Now that I’ve been to the IT show, I’ve found [...]
October 26, 2005 – 11:38 am
I’m at the Internet Telephony show, and a friend commented that I really didn’t like Asterisk. I said that wasn’t quite right, because I liked it for being an open source iPBX for Linux. I just didn’t like that everyone was morphing it into these very un-PBX like applications. I understand that their options [...]
October 26, 2005 – 11:27 am
One of the things I’m afraid of is that I’m full of sh*t. I mean, I’m not pulling a fast one on anybody intentionally, but predicting the future is a tricky business. As a former CTO, and as a whatever-I-am now, I make a lot of statements about how I think the world [...]
October 24, 2005 – 3:03 pm
How about making SIP the backbone of the application?
Let’s talk about the future of telephony, especially in the enterprise. Telephony in the enterprise is all about SIP. Sorry, let’s fix that… ALL ABOUT SIP. At this point, it’s really not even up for serious discussion. Any enterprise infrastructure will probably live and die [...]
October 24, 2005 – 2:52 pm
I have a friend who is sitting in the office with me who runs a VAR that caters to the HR departments for governments, health care facilities, etc. We were sitting and speaking about what sorts of applications could be done when you integrated next generation applications and HR. Here’s one that we [...]
October 14, 2005 – 8:56 am
Here’s an auto-attendantee example of how you could write a form based application:
Imagine you own a heating and air conditioning company, and you want your phones to work like this: When someone calls into your shop, you want the phone to be answered with your company greeting. It says “For faster service, please enter your [...]
October 12, 2005 – 2:31 pm
So, I feel like I’m gravitating to an open source project. I’m thinking about taking the SIP forum toolkits, and their VXML effort (whereever that’s at), and making an open source tool to host “voice forms” and other voice based applications. A voice form is a VXML script that interacts with a caller, and [...]