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Last week, I wrote about the under-appreciated but impressive Phono, a jQuery plugin that lets you embed a softphone into any web page. Phono is made by Florida-based Voxeo, a long-standing and innovative telephony software vendor. With a pinch of … Continue reading →

I’m happy for Twilio. This week they announced a JavaScript library that supports VoIP calls from within a browser. Or in their marketing words, “audio pipes for voice communications in web and mobile apps”. With a few lines of code, … Continue reading →

Babak Gholizadeh/Grand Bazaar, Istanbul No, I’m not attending. But I am soaking up this VoIP trade show’s ambiance remotely by dipping into tweets, blog posts, and video snippets. At past VoIP conferences—it’s frankly been a few years since I walked … Continue reading →

I’ve been exploring less expensive Android gadgetry lately in my search for a capable but not overly glitzy e-book reader. My experience with Velocity Micro’s Cruz Reader, which I have previously documented, was not a positive one. I’ve now turned … Continue reading →

Yesterday at the jQuery Conference held in Boston, Voxeo announced its new plugin that “turns any web browser into a multi-channel communications platform.” Called Phono (rhymes with Tropo), this is a pure client-side solution that is simple enough to implement: … 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 →