Solegy News and Website Updates

[News] Solegy Receives Product of the Year Award from Unified Communications Magazine

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:00:00 +0800

Solegy is proud to announce that its Chatvertizer application has received the Product of the Year Award from Unified Communications magazine for representing a ground-breaking advancement in the field of UC technologies for the year 2007.

[Blog Post] Who Needs a Mobile Browser Anyway? Not You, Says Yahoo.

Sun, 13 Jan 2008 10:30:00 +0800

Playing around with the new Yahoo Go 3 application got me to thinking that most of my mobile Internet needs do not really require a browser. Go 3 is Yahoo's new mobile developer platform, designed to facilitate the creation of mobile widgets (or snippets as they call them) by independent application developers. On your mobile phone, it is a single icon that serves as a browserless widget container (Yahoo calls it a carousel) that presents information in a format that is optimized for the mobile form factor.

[Blog Post] Yahoo Moves Widgets to the Mobile Masses

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 10:30:00 +0800

Yahoo has made headlines from its new mobile strategy, announced this week at CES. The details have been widely reported, but the announcement is particularly interesting to me because it is the first attempt by a major internet player to provide a general purpose widget API designed specifically for the mobile phone environment. Yahoo has been having its lunch eaten by Google of late, and this is its latest bid to secure mindshare in the rapidly growing mobile space.

[Blog Post] Towards a Federation of Widgets

Sun, 04 Nov 2007 10:30:00 +0800

The result of Facebook's recent decision to open their API to third party developers is that application providers suddenly have a chance to reach millions of eyeballs with virtually no sales or marketing expense. A clever application can grow virally at a pace never before possible.

[Blog Post] Televisiphonernet: Comcast Names Gen Y Media Habits

Tue, 09 Oct 2007 08:00:00 +0800

At Solegy, we spend a lot of time talking about how new technology will change the way that users interact with media. While we don't profess to know what the future holds, one thing is for sure: the days of undivided attention are over. Anyone with kids above the age of 9 (who roughly fall into the Gen Y or Millennial category) will attest to the multi-tasking skills of tomorrow's consumers. It is virtually impossible for kids to engage in a single activity nowadays. TV, Tivo, IM, Video Chat, You Tube, Joost, text messaging, Gameboys, PSPs and virtual worlds (such as Second Life and Disney's hot pre-teen property VMK) are but a few of the concurrent colors on the palette of their media mosaic.

[Blog Post] Former FCC Chairman Hundt Deals Poetic Justice to Verizon

Tue, 02 Oct 2007 08:00:00 +0800

Frontline Wireless, the 700Mhz hopeful and employer of former FCC Chairman Reed Hundt, has asked the FCC to exclude Verizon from the upcoming spectrum auction for violating the agency's rules of conduct.

[Blog Post] Will 2007 be the Year that Ad Supported Phone Calls Take Off?

Sun, 30 Sep 2007 08:00:00 +0800

September 2007 may come to be known as the turning point for ad supported phone calls. No fewer than four companies have launched new services or received funding for business models that revolve around ad subsidized free phone calls.

[Blog Post] I Love Ooma (or, How to Make a Great VoIP ATA)

Mon, 17 Sep 2007 08:00:00 +0800

Today marks the end of my third week as an Ooma White Rabbit (that's Ooma's euphemistic term for guinea pig). And while I generally avoid commenting on VoIP gadgets or services, I feel compelled to make an exception in this case to give praise where it is due. I don't know whether Ooma will ultimately succeed as a business concern, but I believe that it breaks new ground in the category of user-friendly consumer VoIP devices, and will raise the bar in this regard for all VoIP services to come.

[Blog Post] A New Way to Use WiFi - SSID Advertising

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 08:00:00 +0800

As a frequent trade show exhibitor, we at Solegy are always looking for new ways to attract people to our booth. Raffles, schwag, dancing girls... we've tried it all. Or so I thought. Today at the Internet Telephony Conference and Expo in L.A. I came across a novel marketing gimmick that's so simple and effective that it made me slap my forehead for not thinking of it myself.

[Blog Post] Google vs. the Telcos - a Timeline

Tue, 31 Jul 2007 08:00:00 +0800

Tomorrow, July 31, the FCC will vote on the bidding rules to be employed for the upcoming 700Mhz wireless frequency auction. The outcome is of paramount importance to the future of the Internet in the United States. At issue is whether the bidding rules will be designed to thwart the monopolistic tendencies of established phone companies. To the dismay of Internet aficionados everywhere, the telcos' combined capital and lobbying power seems hard to beat. At least in my opinion, an outcome that does not work to their benefit is extremely unlikely.

[Blog Post] WSJ on Wireless Network Neutrality

Fri, 15 Jun 2007 08:00:00 +0800

Today's Wall Street Journal had an interesting article (subscription required) on the current state of the wireless walled garden. It cites several recent clashes between handset vendors and cellcos over the extent to which consumers can use their phones to access non cellco content.

[Blog Post] One Month After CALEA for VoIP - Is Outsourcing for You?

Thu, 14 Jun 2007 08:00:00 +0800

It has been one month since the FCC's May 14 deadline for the Communications Assistance to Law Enforcement Act Order went into effect. Yet, according to a CALEA solution provider that I spoke with today, more than half of the VoIP service providers he talks with are still non-compliant. He says most seem to be waiting until they actually receive an intercept order before they pull the trigger on his company's $75,000 solution.

[Jobs] QA Supervisor, MIS Engineer

Wed, 13 Jun 2007 11:00:00 +0800

Solegy is in need of a QA Supervisor and an MIS Engineer for its Manila, Philippines office.

[Site Update] New Page on Corporate Web Site

Wed, 06 Jun 2007 17:00:00 +0800

A new page has been added to the Solegy Web Site. Go to http://www.solegy.com/solegy_management.htm.

[Events] Primer: State of the Art in Open Source

Thu, 31 May 2007 14:00:00 +0800

"State of the Art in Open Source" is one of the sessions of the Open Source Track of the INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference and EXPO 2007 West. This session is slated on September 11, 2007, 8AM at Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, California. Eric Hernaez, Solegy CEO, is one of the speakers.

[Site Update] Subscribe to Solegy RSS Feed via Email

Thu, 10 May 2007 10:00:00 +0800

You can now choose to receive updates via email. Go to http://www.solegy.com/aboutrss.htm to subscribe.