Tag Archives: skype

June 23, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Cloud and SMBs

By Ben Kepes

A little while ago Christina DesMarais from Inc magazine asked a question on focus.com about the best small business applications out there. I live SMB so this was a question right up my alley. It seemed worthwhile to recount my answer here; Hi Christina – you’re speaking my language. I

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October 9, 2008 Posted in Business, IT 5 Comments

Skype ≠ Phoneline

By Ben Kepes

I’m a heavy Skype user – it’s a stunningly effective tool that allows me to talk to or message people all across the globe for no cost (that last part is important – I’m known for being a scrooge!) However Skype does not equal a phoneline. This was bought home

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September 6, 2008 Posted in Business, Collaboration, Design, Efficiency, IT, The Cloud, Web x.0 Leave a comment

A monolith opens up

By Ben Kepes

Really interesting to read this article in BusinessWeek. It tells the tale of Unilever, the massive company that brings us such staple items as Vaseline(!) It seems Unilever is realising that the college graduates they’re trying to attract simply cannot function within a rigidly locked-down IT infrastructure, where outside-the-firewall IM,

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September 2, 2008 Posted in Business, Design, IT, SaaS, Web x.0 12 Comments

The benefits of being online

By Ben Kepes

The biggest benefit of SaaS, as I see it, isn’t the fact that it’s available online and anywhere. Rather it’s the added value that connectivity brings. A great example of what this can mean in practice comes from the Xero update which came out today. Xero now allows a couple

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June 18, 2008 Posted in Business, Collaboration, Design, Efficiency, IT, SaaS, Strategy 3 Comments

Skype 4.0 beta

By Ben Kepes

Skype is rolling out a beta version of its newest software and it marks a distinct change in tack for the company. Skype’s formative days were centred around voice communications, video functionality had been something of a bolt on to the UI. The new version is all about communication, not

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May 31, 2008 Posted in Design, Efficiency, IT, SaaS, Strategy 1 Comment

Microsoft – building a room that Echoes….

By Ben Kepes

So Microsoft has announced its “Echoes” project, a unified communications platform for telcos that, via the windows live service, seeks to; Sync Address book contacts over the air Ensure that IM messages work seamlessly with SMS Windows Live Messenger contacts get local numbers Voice calls from Messenger on PC to

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May 7, 2008 Posted in IT, Strategy 4 Comments

Can Telco symbiosis beat Skype?

By The Unreasonablemen

(A cross posting from unreasonablemen.net) A couple of posts today (Om Malik and a follow up on Skype Journal) discuss a rumoured Skype killing application that is allegedly being planned for. It seems that some of the Telco heavyweights want to build a VoIP based P2P calling service in order

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Ben Kepes is a technology evangelist, an investor, a commentator and a business adviser. Ben covers the convergence of technology, mobile, ubiquity and agility, all enabled by the Cloud. His areas of interest extend to enterprise software, software integration, financial/accounting software, platforms and infrastructure as well as articulating technology simply for everyday users.

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