By Doug Mohney, on August 19th, 2010
Ooma (www.ooma.com) says it should have HD voice ready to roll “by the end of September” and getting it to customers is the “top priority now.” And oh-by-the-way, the software on on Ooma’s Telo hardware is FreeSWITCH, not Digium Asterisk.
Dennis Peng, Ooma’s VP of Product Management, said while the company had announced a number of [...]
By Doug Mohney, on August 16th, 2010
Rich Buchanan, former chief marketing officer of Ooma, passed away on the morning of August 13, 2010. According to the post at GigaOm and via Buchanan’s Twitter account, Buchanan had recently undergone four hours of open heart surgery.
Buchanan was an advocate for HD voice during a two year tenure at Ooma that ended in [...]
By Doug Mohney, on August 10th, 2010
According to a piece published yesterday in Enterprise VoIP Planet, Ooma (www.ooma.com) plans to launch an HD voice service “within the next few months.”
Hello, hello? This is what the company’s been saying over the past year. And oh-by-the-way, it looks like the company has finished reshuffling its executive suite with a new VP of [...]
By Doug Mohney, on June 14th, 2010
Not a lot of detail on the company’s website, but ooma (www.ooma.com) has quietly launched a variation of its service for only $99.99 down and $9.99 per month.
The offer, viewable at http://www.ooma.com/basicmonthlyplus/ as of June 14 at 11 AM, is a “special offer” to get Ooma for only $99.99 (normally $249.99 for the hardware [...]
By Doug Mohney, on May 4th, 2010
At CES, IP phone manufacturer/service provider ooma (www.ooma.com) announced a laundry list of features that would be supported in its new second-generation Telo hardware. The cluster of software-based features was slated to be released in April, but HD voice didn’t make the cut.
In an exchange of email with HD Voice News, Ooma VP of Corporate [...]
By Doug Mohney, on April 19th, 2010
Ooma has “announced the availability” of its PureVoice technology, a feature announced and demonstrated at CES in January. The press release goes on to describe PureVoice as being made up of four components, plus tags on the availability of . Google Voice Extensions and Ooma Voicemail Transcriptions, features also talked about at CES. Nothing in [...]
By Doug Mohney, on February 8th, 2010
After two years as Ooma’s Chief Marketing Officer (CMO), Rich “The Dude” Buchanan is departing the company for another project.
Buchanan, an advocate of HD voice via Ooma, announced his departure from Ooma via Twitter (@richbuchanan) on Sunday evening; the company has yet to make a formal statement of either Buchanan’s departure or his replacement. “It’s [...]
By Doug Mohney, on January 11th, 2010
Note: Ooma is a sponsor of HD Voice News
At CES, Ooma (www.ooma.com) rolled out several new features and enhances services for its second-generation Telo system, including formally announcing “High Definition Voice.” Other additions include a double-packet-sending “Pure Voice” feature to provide enhanced voice reliability, mobile phone calling with the iPhone family, Bluetooth support, Google Voice [...]
By Doug Mohney, on December 29th, 2009
Before I get wrapped up into the next two to three lists, I wanted to take the time to highlight the contribution and moral support both of HD Voice News sponsors have provided to “The Cause.”
Rich Buchanan of Ooma and Ari Rabban of phone.com both approached me, unsolicited, and expressed the desire to support the [...]
By Doug Mohney, on October 28th, 2009
Editor’s note: ooma is a sponsor of this website
Ooma may want to chat with some of the radio stations conducting live reads for its recent on-air commercials. At least one show host in the D.C. described the service as “good as a land line” — an undersell of a product (telo) that provides G.722 wideband [...]
|
|