Following this week's launch of Palringo's Rich Messaging Service in North America, CEO Kerry Ritz spoke with Alec Saunders during an interview on Squawk Box. Kerry provides details on Palringo's service, the first to offer the ability to exchange text, voice messages and pictures across all popular instant-messaging services, whether using a PC, mobile phone or PDA. Listen to Alec, Kerry and other podcast participants.
Ifbyphone's Phone-Me-Now Facebook application was featured on this 
week's "Into Tomorrow with Dave Graveline." Host Dave Graveline offered a 60-second promo of the widget, which enables users to place free calls from their friends' Facebook profile pages, without revealing either party's caller ID. Listen to the feature, presented in Dave's distinctive style.
Truphone's James Body and Tom Carter join Alec Saunders on the Squawk Box podcast to talk about Truphone's just-announced Truphone Anywhere service, which lets users make calls at low-cost Internet rates--even when not connected to the Internet. Join James, Tom and Alec here.
Ben Lilienthal, CEO of Vapps, talks about the future of High-Definition Conferencing with Jim Courtney, editor of Skype Journal. The audio quality of the conferencing service is captured in the recording of the phone interview: http://skypejournal.com/blog/images/VAPPS.SkypeJournal.BenL.2008-04-22.mp3
On the heels of this week's successful launch of SightSpeed Light on MySpace (see presss release), SightSpeed's VP-Marketing Eric Quanstrom gives Alec Saunders the inside story on Squawk Box: http://saunderslog.com/2008/04/24/squawk-box-april-24-guest-eric-quanstrom/.
Alec Saunders invited Thomas Howe of The Thomas Howe Company to Squawk Box for a debriefing on Telco 2.0, which took place in London last week. More a brainstorming session than a typical "booth" conference, Telco 2.0 employed interactive wireless technology to enable particpants to submit anonymous feedback and questions--making for some lively discussions on the gulf between carriers and innovators/disruptors. Hear Tom's chat with Alec here: http://saunderslog.com/2008/04/21/squawk-box-april-21-telco-20/.
Comunicano clients seem to be getting Alec Saunders' ear lately. Most recently, Darren Yaphe of MOBIVOX was a guest on Squawk Box: http://saunderslog.com/2008/04/04/squawk-box-april-4-guest-darren-yaphe-of-mobivox/. MOBIVOX is an international calling service that makes it possible to call friends and family around the world for free or very inexpensively, and from any phone.
Irv Shapiro, CEO of Chicago-based Ifbyphone, spoke to Alec Saunders on the daily podcast, Squawk Box. Ifbyphone is a converged voice and Web solutions company (and Comunicano client) that helps businesses have an enterprise-level, but inexpensive, presence on the Web. Listen to Alec's conversation with Irv here: http://saunderslog.com/2008/03/27/squawk-box-march-27-guest-irv-shapiro-of-ifbyphone/.
