May 2009

  1. Cloud Telephony Partner Program For Carriers & Service Providers

    After publicly announcing our cloud telephony program for carriers, we have added several resources to our website about partnership opportunities. Here is a quick look at the new pages:

  2. Spend Your Marketing Dollars Wisely

    Marketing dollars are very scarce in today’s economy and businesses need to therefore know which advertising campaigns are working and which are failing. Possessing this information will enable companies to efficiently prioritize their marketing budget and spend money on ads that will be seen by their true target market. How can a company track this information?

  3. ClueCon 2009

    ClueCon is an annual 3-Day Telephony User and Developer Conference bringing together the entire spectrum of Telephony from TDM circuits to VoIP and everything in between. The best part is that it is located in our backyard, downtown Chicago.

    Yesterday the ClueCon blog announced that Irv Shapiro, Ifbyphone's CEO, will be presenting. Here is a description of the session:

  4. Network Communications Partnership Announcement

    The announcement today of our partnership with Texas-based carrier Network Communications has received some great coverage.

    FierceVoIP wrote an article called Ifbyphone gets first carrier customer for SIP applications offering and we were also featured on the front page of TMCnet.

  5. Joomla 1.5 Click To Call Module Is Now Available

    Today we're announcing the release of our new Click-to-Call module for Joomla version 1.5. If you are an Ifbyphone customer running your website on the Joomla 1.5 content management system, we invite you to read about the module here and download the new module here.
  6. Google Gives Up On Phone Call Tracking Numbers?

    Apparently Google decided to stop offering, and eventually turn-off, phone call tracking numbers. I just received the following email from Google stating:

  7. Virtual Phone Numbers - Everything You Need To Know

    I'm going to share answers to the most common questions about virtual phone numbers.

    What is a virtual phone number?
    A virtual phone number, also referred to as just a virtual number, is a telephone number whose routing you can change since it isn’t connected to a specific telephone line.

  8. Irv Shapiro To Present at Interop Las Vegas 2009

    Interop Las Vegas 2009 is next week, and Ifbyphone CEO Irv Shapiro will be speaking on Wednesday, May 20, 2009 at a session called: "The iPhone and the Enterprise: Is this the Future of IT?"

  9. We're growing and we're hiring

    We're looking for a few new talented people to join our rapidly growing team. Here is some info about our company and the open positions:

  10. Maximizing Carriers Revenue Per Bit

    Michael Morisy of TechTarget posted a great, thoughtful article Thursday on revenue generation in the telecom world. He posed a core question in the story's title: "Without revenue-per-bit stabilization, is telecom a time bomb?"

  11. Texting, Tweeting and Telephone Broadcasting

    With all the news about Twitter, and the seemingly obligatory mention of its 140-character limit, the Los Angeles Times published an article on "Why text messages are limited to 160 characters". Here is an excerpt:
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    Alone in a room in his home in Bonn, Germany, Friedhelm Hillebrand sat at his typewriter, tapping out random sentences and questions on a sheet of paper.

  12. Connect with us on Twitter

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