Peter Csathy continues in his fascinating analyses of the use of video calling by giving several brief example case studies of how SightSpeed’s video-based click-to-call functionality can be used on e-commerce websites to inject a human element to transactions. Examples are online mortgage sites, tutoring – especially for language learning, and even customer support.
Now take [...]
Garrett Smith crucifies Red Herring on their brow raising article about VoIP security risks, saying “it mis-represents, mis-informs, and is filled with half-truths.” He ends his post with links to three websites about VoIP security. It reveals to me how much I still have to learn about IP telephony and security, but I have believed [...]
Despite being a Communist country, with less emphasis on profit, China has a lot of businesses and many of them need telecom services. In fact, according to research firm In-Stat, spending on IP PBXes for Chinese enterprises is expected to grow from about US$164M in 2006 to nearly $480M in 2010, an increase of almost [...]
Evidence suggests that VoIP until recently has been an awkward prospect for most SMBs. Not everyone wants to wear either a headphone/mic combo headset or a Bluetooth earpiece. But that’s changing, and more practical VoIP hardware [One Stop Click] is appearing. Though mouse/ phone combos are not one of them, in my opinion.
But when it [...]
Imran Ali describes a fascinating concept called crowdsensing, which would require turning mobile phones into something called a spime – a term coined by cyberpunk author Bruce Sterling (a man who, I believe, once wrote in one of his mid 1990s novels that copyright would be impossible to enforce on the Internet). A spime, according [...]