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I just wrote about Jajah Managed Services a couple of weeks ago and now I’m here again to report that Michael Robertson’s Gizmo5 chose Jajah Managed Services for PSTN termination, billing and Customer care.

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The main benefit Gizmo5 obtains from this deal is that they can now focus on marketing and on their set of fully-featured softphones for Windows, Linux, Mac and mobile platforms.

On the other hand, Jajah is now joining forces with players that were perceived as competitors in the near past, but thanks to Jajah’s new approach they are now important partners and can get great value from each other.

Congrats to the Jajah team and to Michael Robertson and his team for this important deal! Voice 2.0 is more and more about collaboration rather than competition, big players continue to join forces to improve their offerings and services with huge advantages for customers.

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This is funny. It seems that the big record label EMI, involved in a lawsuit against Michael Robertson’s MP3Tunes, is trying to put its hands on Michael’s Minivan, together with other personal belongings, properties and so on.

In his blog post, Michael concludes:

I hope the court sees these personal attacks as a transparent attempt to twist laws to use them in ways never intended. What we’re doing at MP3tunes with personal Lockers is right and responsible. Not only is the company not violating copyright law, but none of our employees are either. I will keep you posted when we have a ruling from the Judge about whether they can sue me personally. 

Is, in a lawsuit like this, a personal attack fair? In my humbler opinion, it’s not that correct. Managers of a company are, of course, responsible for the behavior and the activity of the company itself, but the company is the entity that is directly involved in this lawsuit. Ok, it’s clear that in case of evident infringement of the law, people respond directly and can get arrested (for severe crimes), but in this case we are talking about a company (EMI) that is claiming that MP3Tunes is doing something wrong which goes against its personal interests. 

Let’s face it, the problem is that any lawsuit is a war, and during a war, everyone knows this, everything is admitted. I hope that the judge will understand that this is a David vs Golia kind of war and will be wise enough to do the best to protect the personal stuff of a serious serial entrepreneur like MIchael Robertson is.

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Michael Robertson announces on his blog that a new feature is available on the mobile version of Gizmo5. He told me about this feature when we met during my last trip to the Bay Area and I’m happy to see that it didn’t take too much to see it released.

With Gizmo5 you can now send IM, SMSs and emails to your contacts from the same interface. If a user is not available on IM, you can choose an alternative method and send an email or SMS. 

It would be great, as I suggested to Michael, if the recipient could choose the method of contact he prefers in a certain moment. I can be available by IM, but I can set my presence to force people who have me in their contact list to use a specific means instead of IM. So it is not the sender who choose, but the recipient. This feature would bring the effectiveness of this feature to its best.

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