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I downloaded OpenVBX, Twilio’s bendable, programmable cloud-based unified communications platform, tried out a few call control flows, and then drifted off into a reverie about telecom start-ups before the dot.com crash. When the CLECs and ASPs first came on the … Continue reading →

About a year ago, VoiceXML pioneer Voxeo started a cloud-based unified communications service called Tropo. It's a tempting free development environment in which you craft unified communications apps in your favorite web programming language without having to wade too deeply into VoXML tags and voice grammars. The words "free", "development environment", and "VoiceXML" struck the right note with me. Continue reading →

I’m been trying to keep up with multiple stories (Sprint-Clearwire “4G”,  Harbinger Capital’s nationwide LTE network , iPad) while running around tending other assignments.  No, I don’t have much of a smartphone,  more of a Bronze-age artifact that came with … Continue reading →