A Digital Mailbox Service allows users to receive Postal Mail Online. In essence, rather than receive junk mail via snail mail, you can now receive all the junk mail and other mail electronically and access them via the web. Digital Mailbox services are beneficial to users in the following ways: Organize Accounts & Bills online [...]
Archive of posts filed under the Startups category.
Startup Ribbit finally comes out
Back in July of last year, I wrote about Silicon Valley startup Ribbit when it was a yet another startup in stealth mode, surmising that Ribbit is a softswitch-based VoIP telephony service that is accessible from a browser via a Flash application. Well, Ribbit has “come out” – and announced that its new platform is [...]
Solicall reduces Background Noise in VoIP calls
Have you ever been on a conference call where someone’s talking while on the go and its hard to hear the conversation because there’s a lot of background noise? If you have, and are annoyed by it, there’s a solution for it. SoliCall, Israeli-based privately-held company, announced the release of its PBXMate – a technology [...]
Agito Networks seeks gold in fast WiFi/Cellular handoff
Fixed-mobile convergence (FMC) and the quest to make quick, smooth hand-offs between cellular and WiFi got a shot in the arm when Agito Networks formally launched this week. Agito Networks is founded in 2006 by Pejman Roshan (VeeP of marketing) and Timothy Olson (CTO), both formerly of Cisco’s Wireless Networking Business Unit, and backed by [...]
Will Jaxtr upstage Skype?
Jaxtr has raised a $10 million Series A round led by August Capital with Mayfield Fund, Draper Richards, Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Luxemburg-based Mangrove Capital participating. Jaxtr’s registered user base has been doubling every month since its March launch. Most recently, it jumped from 500,000 to 1 million in just 27 days. So, it’s no [...]
NewCo finally gets a crappy name
NewCo, the online video collaboration between NBC Universal and News Corporation that had no name, has finally got a name! and it’s hulu. The naming convention appears to be taking a page from the Internet company tradition of creating meaningless but cute-sounding company names. I don’t think the name has much ‘bang’ or ‘pizzazz’. Frankly, [...]
How Clearwire Got a Content Team Overnight
Amp’d Mobile did two things great (and nothing else worth mentioning): one was to offer cool handsets. The other was to offer a really exciting deck of content (for example, Lil’ Bush). Well, now that Amp’d Mobile is no more, Clearwire has apparently acquired Amp’d Mobile’s 50-plus member content team to lead a new content [...]
Why U.S. MVNOs will find it hard to survive
First there was the spectacular demise of ESPN Mobile (the MVNO), then there was slow and timely death of Amp’d Mobile. ESPN Mobile was idiotic – who is going to pay about $60 a month the whole year to watch ESPN on a small screen, when most fans follow just one sport (e.g. baseball or [...]
Why Skype is Better than Ooma
Ooma has a lot of buzz and hype around it, despite still being in private beta. But let’s look beyond the hype and compare Ooma with other telephony services. I’m specifically choosing Skype although there are other players to consider. This will give a good idea how Ooma stacks up against Skype and for who [...]
