eBay filed a concern with SEC – A legal dispute between the Skype unit and Joltid - the organisation from which Skype was purchased.  If nothing is done, the entire Skype service could die.

Skype is the largest carrier of international telephony in the world (around 8% of global traffic). though Skype provides alot of free calls, but an increasing number of customers are using the paid Skype Out service – amounting to 8.4 billion minutes alone in 2008.

On page 15 of eBay’s quarterly SEC filing, it wrote the following -

(Don’t worry if you don’t understand this, I’ve explained it in the later section)

“Skype licenses peer-to-peer communication technology from Joltid Limited pursuant to a license agreement between the parties. The parties had been discussing a dispute over the license. … Following the filing of the claim, Joltid .. Read Further »

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Skype is the largest carrier of international telephony in the world (around 8% of global traffic). though Skype provides alot of free calls, but an increasing number of customers are using the paid Skype Out service – amounting to 8.4 billion minutes alone in 2008.

On page 15 of eBay’s quarterly SEC filing, it wrote the following -

(Don’t worry if you don’t understand this, I’ve explained it in the later section)

“Skype licenses peer-to-peer communication technology from Joltid Limited pursuant to a license agreement between the parties. The parties had been discussing a dispute over the license. … Following the filing of the claim, Joltid .. Read Further »

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]]> http://www.taranfx.com/skype-ebay-dispute-can-finish-skype-best-time-for-google-voice-and-others/feed 3 http://www.taranfx.com/how-google-wave-is-a-killer-app-for-converged-email-im-forums-social-enterprise http://www.taranfx.com/how-google-wave-is-a-killer-app-for-converged-email-im-forums-social-enterprise#comments Tue, 21 Jul 2009 23:50:47 +0000 admin http://www.taranfx.com/blog/?p=1445 Google Wave is one stop solution that will change the way you communicate to your Friends, Family, and at Work.

Wave a complete Collaboration tool, that let’s you do everything in REALTIME! In other words it’s a LIVE communication platform that will converge your Email, IM, Docs, Apps, Videos, Photos, wikis, Office Collaboration(Bugs, Reviews, Meetings, Discussions,etc.), Social Media, and any type of External tools (using Extesnions which are easy to integrate) to build one elegant, in-browser communication and Extensible to Desktop client. You can bring a group of friends or business partners together to discuss or share all the stuff described above.

Describing Google Wave in a single Blog is way to impartial. I`ll try to cover as much as possible, but at the end of the day, it’s much more extensible than that.

Google Wave has alot of innovative features, here are few that have been exposed by Google, till date:

- RealTime: Everything you do in Google Wave is REALTIME. For .. Read Further »

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Wave a complete Collaboration tool, that let’s you do everything in REALTIME! In other words it’s a LIVE communication platform that will converge your Email, IM, Docs, Apps, Videos, Photos, wikis, Office Collaboration(Bugs, Reviews, Meetings, Discussions,etc.), Social Media, and any type of External tools (using Extesnions which are easy to integrate) to build one elegant, in-browser communication and Extensible to Desktop client. You can bring a group of friends or business partners together to discuss or share all the stuff described above.

Describing Google Wave in a single Blog is way to impartial. I`ll try to cover as much as possible, but at the end of the day, it’s much more extensible than that.

Google Wave has alot of innovative features, here are few that have been exposed by Google, till date:

- RealTime: Everything you do in Google Wave is REALTIME. For .. Read Further »

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]]> http://www.taranfx.com/how-google-wave-is-a-killer-app-for-converged-email-im-forums-social-enterprise/feed 14 http://www.taranfx.com/google-voice-gets-presence-virtual-call-centers-come-into-play http://www.taranfx.com/google-voice-gets-presence-virtual-call-centers-come-into-play#comments Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:01:58 +0000 admin http://www.taranfx.com/blog/?p=1306 Earlier, I wrote how Google Voice can kill skype and redefine Unified communications. Here is the best example. OnState Communications has adopted Google voice for Virtual Call-Center services. They announced today that their cloud-based call center and PBX solutions will fully integrate with Google Voice, enabling customers to leverage full benefits of Google Voice. This support combines with existing Google Talk and Google Apps support as part of OnState’s virtual call center and PBX solutions, and allows Google users to retain all of the inherent product features while building upon them to improve customer-facing communications.

“With this new support, OnState allows you to turn Google Voice into a full-featured PBX or call center for a fraction of normal industry prices,” said Pat Kelly, CEO of OnState. “And while using Google Voice you can reap the benefits inherent to OnState, including multi-modal capabilities, business- and skills-based routing, seamless application integration, reporting .. Read Further »

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“With this new support, OnState allows you to turn Google Voice into a full-featured PBX or call center for a fraction of normal industry prices,” said Pat Kelly, CEO of OnState. “And while using Google Voice you can reap the benefits inherent to OnState, including multi-modal capabilities, business- and skills-based routing, seamless application integration, reporting .. Read Further »

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]]> http://www.taranfx.com/google-voice-gets-presence-virtual-call-centers-come-into-play/feed 4 http://www.taranfx.com/how-google-voice-can-kill-skype http://www.taranfx.com/how-google-voice-can-kill-skype#comments Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:47:20 +0000 admin http://www.taranfx.com/blog/?p=1275 The VOIP and Unified communications are coming to the next steps. Days are gone when you needed collaboration tools from your service provider. Your Virtual service providers can do it all for you, and that too at a negligible or No cost. The best examplee to quote is Google Voice.

Google Voice started from GrandCentral, will eventually conquer large part of US and the world. Google last week started sending out invitations for Google Voice, its new VoIP service built on technology it acquired  in 2007. Google Voice will be rolled out slowly, according to Google, but as of last Thursday, the service is now available to anyone who had requested to try the beta version.

What is Google Voice Hype All about?

Google Voice provides users with a universal phone number to cover all their phone communications – work, home, mobile – but more important are Google Voice’s bells and whistles, which include a transcription service for voicemails, the searchable cataloging of text messages and lots of different routing and forwarding options

.. Read Further »

Related StoriesGoogle Voice gets Presence, Virtual Call Centers come into Play.Google buys Real-Time Video Conferencing for AndroidSkype eBay Dispute can Finish Skype. Best time for Google Voice and Others.Google Voice captures Mobile – Android and Blackberry. iPhone soon.Ribbit Mobile Targets Google VoiceGoogle Buys AdMob, Gizmo5 to enhance Mobile Ads and VoIPAT&T says iPhone deal with [...]]]> The VOIP and Unified communications are coming to the next steps. Days are gone when you needed collaboration tools from your service provider. Your Virtual service providers can do it all for you, and that too at a negligible or No cost. The best examplee to quote is Google Voice.

Google Voice started from GrandCentral, will eventually conquer large part of US and the world. Google last week started sending out invitations for Google Voice, its new VoIP service built on technology it acquired  in 2007. Google Voice will be rolled out slowly, according to Google, but as of last Thursday, the service is now available to anyone who had requested to try the beta version.

What is Google Voice Hype All about?

Google Voice provides users with a universal phone number to cover all their phone communications – work, home, mobile – but more important are Google Voice’s bells and whistles, which include a transcription service for voicemails, the searchable cataloging of text messages and lots of different routing and forwarding options

.. Read Further »

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]]> http://www.taranfx.com/how-google-voice-can-kill-skype/feed 9 http://www.taranfx.com/ericsson-will-replace-ugly-cell-phone-towers http://www.taranfx.com/ericsson-will-replace-ugly-cell-phone-towers#comments Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:31:23 +0000 admin http://www.taranfx.com/blog/?p=1169 For those who don’t know what Cellular antenna does, here is brief- Cellular antennae are shaped for perfection. The cells are situated exactly 120 degrees apart to cover maximum area. These 3 Vertical (white colored) cells cover the RF carrier frequency to your cell phones (800Mhz, 900Mhz, 1800Mhz). The circular antenna is used as microwave carriers for high bandwidth Communications across different BTS, alternative is to use Optical fibers.

Cells were considered good innovation till date. Where wireless communications company Ericsson usually deals in products meant to be unseen, it has taken a different approach with its new Capsule cell site, and designed a mobile broadband base station that is meant to be seen without standing out.

Even though mobile broadband coverage is in increased demand, property owners and communities are often less than thrilled to have cell towers erected near their homes and places of business. Companies have tried to make the giant towers less obtrusive by hiding them in fake foliage, or in creative architecture, and .. Read Further »

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Cells were considered good innovation till date. Where wireless communications company Ericsson usually deals in products meant to be unseen, it has taken a different approach with its new Capsule cell site, and designed a mobile broadband base station that is meant to be seen without standing out.

Even though mobile broadband coverage is in increased demand, property owners and communities are often less than thrilled to have cell towers erected near their homes and places of business. Companies have tried to make the giant towers less obtrusive by hiding them in fake foliage, or in creative architecture, and .. Read Further »

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]]> http://www.taranfx.com/ericsson-will-replace-ugly-cell-phone-towers/feed 2 http://www.taranfx.com/google-communication-suite-to-bring-microsoft-to-knees http://www.taranfx.com/google-communication-suite-to-bring-microsoft-to-knees#comments Fri, 29 May 2009 12:59:01 +0000 admin http://www.taranfx.com/blog/?p=984 Wave is Google’s new collaboration and communications software that combines aspects of e-mail, instant messaging, document sharing, blogging and wikis in a single application.

A demonstration of an early version of Wave reportedly drew a standing ovation at Google’s I/O developer conference in San Francisco Thursday. While the software isn’t expected to be generally available to the public until later this year, Google is reaching out to developers to help the company fine-tune the software and suggest ways it can be used and improved.

Wave will pose a competitive challenge to SharePoint, Microsoft’s collaboration and communication software that’s generating more than $1 billion in sales, as well as collaboration and communications applications from IBM Lotus and other vendors.

“A ‘wave’ is equal parts conversation and document, where people can communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps and .. Read Further »

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A demonstration of an early version of Wave reportedly drew a standing ovation at Google’s I/O developer conference in San Francisco Thursday. While the software isn’t expected to be generally available to the public until later this year, Google is reaching out to developers to help the company fine-tune the software and suggest ways it can be used and improved.

Wave will pose a competitive challenge to SharePoint, Microsoft’s collaboration and communication software that’s generating more than $1 billion in sales, as well as collaboration and communications applications from IBM Lotus and other vendors.

“A ‘wave’ is equal parts conversation and document, where people can communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps and .. Read Further »

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]]> http://www.taranfx.com/google-communication-suite-to-bring-microsoft-to-knees/feed 2 http://www.taranfx.com/plantronics-aims-to-solve-last-10-feet-problem-with-unified-communications http://www.taranfx.com/plantronics-aims-to-solve-last-10-feet-problem-with-unified-communications#comments Wed, 11 Mar 2009 11:02:15 +0000 admin http://taranfx.com/blog/?p=316 Unified communications has been a topic in IT management circles for years. It’s a topic that can lead to packed houses at conferences and Cisco, Avaya, Microsoft and IBM all have extensive unified communications suites. The problem: Users.

Here’s the unified communications blue print: Enterprises spend heavily on suites that bundle instant messaging, Web conferencing, video presence, collaboration and email so there are secure communications that enhance productivity. The reality: Those suites can be tough for users to navigate and some folks don’t quite get that PC as a phone thing. As a result, the unified communications bandwagon doesn’t quite fill up like IT execs hoped. And then we all go about our Skype, AOL and Yahoo messaging anyway.

Plantronics is aiming to alleviate some of those problems. Plantronics, which is best known in the enterprise as a headset maker, also owns a bunch of audio assets–including Altec Lansing. Simply put, Plantronics makes audio gear for everything from the iPod to the Federal Aviation Administration. And now it’s even .. Read Further »

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Here’s the unified communications blue print: Enterprises spend heavily on suites that bundle instant messaging, Web conferencing, video presence, collaboration and email so there are secure communications that enhance productivity. The reality: Those suites can be tough for users to navigate and some folks don’t quite get that PC as a phone thing. As a result, the unified communications bandwagon doesn’t quite fill up like IT execs hoped. And then we all go about our Skype, AOL and Yahoo messaging anyway.

Plantronics is aiming to alleviate some of those problems. Plantronics, which is best known in the enterprise as a headset maker, also owns a bunch of audio assets–including Altec Lansing. Simply put, Plantronics makes audio gear for everything from the iPod to the Federal Aviation Administration. And now it’s even .. Read Further »

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