Printing To Go

HP is introducing a new service called Cloudprint that makes printing documents very easy using a combination of cell phone SMS technology and web based file storage. What I like about this is the fact that document printing becomes portable and using locations such as Kinkos or UPS Stores the ability to do more than … Read more

Why Some Innovate And Die

The Purple Wonder himself, Mr. VON, has a very good post about innovation. But Jeff, please don’t think you are alone in this battle. Others of us like David Beckemeyer (PhoneGnome), Alec Saunders (iotum), Jeff Bonforte (Yahoo), Craig Walker (GrandCentral), Luca (Abbeynet), Michael Robertson (SIPPhone), Jim Tobin (Comcast), Jeff Black and John Todd (TalkPlus), Surj … Read more

Skype Subverts T-Mobile

Many a writer, analyst and blogger have put the label of “disruptive” on Skype. I think NOT. The proper term, as I have said before is “subversive” and what the following will prove and point to that exact claim. Now for those who don’t see the fine points of differentiation, disruptors upset the status quo. … Read more

Working Away From The Office

As I roll out Working Anywhere, I figured the best way to start informing you on how to work anywhere and feel like you’re home should start with making travel less stressful in this era of always connected, always on, and always reachable. I just got off the Jet Blue red eye from San Diego … Read more

From The Department of Dumb and Dumber

If this is an accurate account of how T-Mobile is operating in the USA, it has to go down as one of the all time DUMB moves. Imagine telling a cell phone customer that they can’t buy a new phone because they don’t have a land line. Suggestion: Buy a Skype In or Gizmo In … Read more

Microsoft Partners With Sprint

Years ago Microsoft and Qualcomm created a venture called Wireless Knowledge, sometime within the first year the venture sort of went sideways and the two slowly separated a lot quieter than they announced the marriage.

Now I see some of what the claims from back then of what the venture was to do making the light of day, only this time Microsoft is at it with a Qualcomm partner in Sprint, but without the kings of CDMA.

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