The Comunicano Daily If you couldn't tell that Ellen DeGeneres was pimping for Samsung at the Oscars on Sunday nights telecast, now the jig is up. To those of us with experience in product placement, it was obvious and one can actually question if $20 million was worth … Read more
The Comunicano Daily So it's a New Year and I'm still over in Portugal for another 24 hours, then over to London for some quick meetings and a flight back to the west coast just in time to head to Las Vegas for CES…So, taking a look at the stories … Read more
Wi-Fi Signal logo (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Image via CrunchBase Today, many of the USA's cable operators are already passing settlement free phone traffic between one another. Now they are going to become a wireless operator without spectrum costs as the leading MSOs (Cox, Cablevision, Comcast, etc) announced a WiFi roaming offer that's designed to keep … Read more
Image via Wikipedia AT&T and T-Mobile have been playing chicken with the opposition regarding their wireless merger for sometime, so yesterday's move to pull their application from FCC review is simply both a negotiation tactic and a way to prevent potential shareholder litigation. Clearly the AT&T lawyers and accountants had a strong say in this. The … Read more
Image via Wikipedia Late yesterday (well for me as I’m in Philadelphia this week) Om Malik sent a note to Alec Saunders and me to give him our perspective on the Skype – Facebook video news of yesterday (another deal likely led by the recently exiled Christopher Dean of Skype) for his email essay newsletter … Read more
Image by jdlasica via Flickr The GigaOm crew have come up with their to 50 cloud innovators. The list, that was published this morning gives a nice overview of who the players are. Since I grew up in sports, the line "you can't tell the players without a scorecard" is rather apropos here, because almost … Read more
Image by brycej via Flickr He's been swamped making Calliflower a rock solid flat rate conferencing platform. And his blogging suffered. And now…HE's BACK. The he is Alec Saunders who for a while was spending more time running his business and a lot less time blogging. Well, he's back. And that's a good thing. Alec … Read more
Image via CrunchBase So give props to pal Om Malik for breaking the story. Skype is going to Microsoft. It's a big win for a lot of people, most of all the original founders and it's a fit. As I wrote over the weekend there was little chance Google would really buy Skype. Too many … Read more
After all Google went through with Apple to get their GoogleVoice app into the App Store for the iPhone you might have expected some legal department compassion. Nope. Instead they have pulled the PhoneFusion Visual VoiceMail client from the Android Market reports GigaOm's Ryan Kim. PhoneFusion is a former client. They've built a very compelling offer … Read more
Image via CrunchBase James Kendrick, who left JK On The Run at GigaOm for a more focused writing role at ZD-Net at the end of last year comments on the 16 percent return rate in the USA for the Samsung Galaxy Tab, tablet device being sold around the globe. James cites the 2 year locked … Read more
