[Antoine RJ Wright is a smart person I have never met, but one who I met through this blog. I've ended up reading his writings and also his comments on this blog once in a while. In my search for a Skype killer post, Antoine left an interesting idea that I just had to have clarified a bit. I ended up asking Antoine to write a guest post on his idea of the open address book, which he did. I
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By guest | January 18th, 2010 | Filed under Technology
The iPhone has been around for a while now. And while it has been a game changer to the mobile handset industry, it was also a game changer of almost EVERY other industry in town. I came to this conclusion reading Om Malik’s post about the wireless bandwidth boom, which has (of course) been driven by the iPhone: But the popularity of new 3G devices such as the iPhone and BlackBerry 3G has increased the use of data, putting the
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | October 29th, 2009 | Filed under Technology
Last month I’ve mused about Mobile VoIP, first suggesting IMS will kill it and then stating it is not going to happen any time soon. I think it’s time I stand behind my big words and explain why. Here are my 5 cents reasons: 1. Mobile VoIP is (Still) Downloadable Mobile VoIP is yet to be embedded as part of the natural user experience of a mobile phone. There are some handsets that support mobile VoIP, but finding it, configuring
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | October 5th, 2009 | Filed under Clients, Technology
Eric Krapf shares a presentation of John Giese from Avaya, which practically kills the idea of the PC as a phone – it’s a bit too harsh for my taste, but rather in-line with my own thoughts about desktops and IP phones. Still on NoJitter, DaveMichels sees things a bit differently, stating that IP Phones have peaked, and will be replaced by desktop and mobile phones. Stacey Higginbotham GigaOM reports on an increase in upstream bandwidth use – if this trend continues, it will be another step towards visual communications for consumers at home. Andy Abramson from VoIP Watch indicates what aspects of the App Store phenomena worries Google – his analysis is sound, though I don’t see App Stores catching over web browsing in the long run.
By Tsahi Levent-Levi | July 30th, 2009 | Filed under Around the net
I already made a point or two regarding my obsession with the software vs. hardware debate (and I probably have a few more about the subject somewhere). This time around I’d like to talk about modu, a new phone that was just been launched in Israel (by an Israeli start-up) and its stark counterpart, the one that no mobile post can live without, the iPhone. modu is a new mobile handset manufacturer based in Israel, founded by Dov Moran, the
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | July 29th, 2009 | Filed under Clients
Last month, two new “products” have been introduced to the market: Google Wave and Opera Unite. They have nothing in common, other than that that they look at the web, communications and collaboration in two totally opposite ways. Google Riding The Wave Google Wave is everything we ever wanted in our communications with others. It’s email, forums, wikis, documents, image galleries, you name it – anything you might think of, besides voice and video calling. It’s a Unified Communication infrastructure
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | July 13th, 2009 | Filed under Technology
Just in time for my weekly post, Gartner came out with a brand new report. To make a long story short, they expect mobile VoIP to reach 50% of all end-to-end mobile traffic by 2019. No mistake there – want mobile VoIP? You will have to wait another decade. Who would have guessed… Gartner agrees with me. No VoIP for you (or me), at least not now, and not as soon as we would have liked. If you want to
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | May 7th, 2009 | Filed under Technology
2008 was a great year for smartphones. It was so great, that some believe it will wither the recession with little more than a hitch. It all began, of course, with Apple releasing the iPhone. From then on the industry went into frenzy, trying to catch up with the three game changing concepts the iPhone has brought with it: Touch screen technology rocks User interface is everything App stores are where you sell software Since
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | March 23rd, 2009 | Filed under Standardization
Know all of these great mobile applications that we keep seeing in the app stores? Especially the ones doing VoIP? Well, it seems like they’re not really made to stick – at least not if operators have their say about them. While one of the most interesting news out of MWC was the fact that Nokia N97 comes with a pre-installed Skype client and able to run on both WiFi and 3G, operators O2 and Orange are not thrilled. iPhone
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | March 2nd, 2009 | Filed under Clients
With Apple’s App Store success (over 500 million downloaded apps so far), similar stores are sprouting up all around, with Microsoft, Palm, RIM, Google and others introducing their own version of an application store. Still, the iPhone is making most of the noise and as such, the blogosphere in the past several months was filled with posts about different VoIP clients being ported to the iPhone – jail-broken or not. BUT – do we really want (or need) VoIP clients
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | January 22nd, 2009 | Filed under Clients
