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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 [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] If the radio spot campaign in DC is any measure, ooma is not afraid to buy radio airtime. Commercials for the consumer (HD) voice service company have been playing on 106.7 “The Fan” since the company’s re-launch with Best Buy on October 1, with spots distributed throughout the day, starting during the mornings and throughout [...] Doug Mohney will be in Phoenix (well, Glendale) Arizona next week for AstriCon 2009, October 13-15, 2009. If AstriCon’s history of surprises holds, keynotes given by Google open source programs manager Chris DiBona and Mike Smith, IBM’s CTO of its Server and Technology Group, should prove to deliver some surprises. The Asterisk telephony “platform,” as Digium’s [...] As the fall of 2009 arrives in North America, so will HD voice. Within days, Best Buy will be stocking telo, ooma’s second generation hardware, for the holiday shopping season. As the leaves fully change colors and approaching the Thanksgiving holiday, 8×8 will flip the switch on its Aastra software upgrade. Both events — one [...] Ooma was showing off its latest hardware at ITEXPO in Los Angeles last week. Telo, ooma’s second generation handset hardware, is expected to hit store shelves at the beginning of October – just in time for the start of the holiday shopping season. Ooma’s hardware is likely the most sophisticated consumer IP communications hardware shipping [...] Enterprise: Ready Vendors discussed/cited: ADTRAN, AudioCodes, Avaya, Cisco, Gigaset (Siemens), ooma, Polycom, snom Enterprise: Ready You don’t have to try very hard to find G.722 support for enterprise-grade IP phones. All of the usual suspects have G.722 codecs in one or more of their handset lines. Avaya says all of its handsets already support G.722 [...] Upstart embraces HD 2 providers queried/spoken to: ooma, Vonage For Internet Telephone Service Providers (ITSPs), the consumer mass market is not a place for the faint of heart. Margins are slim, millions of customers are necessary to generate a profit, [...] |
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