Andy Abramson A few years ago many companies and developers stuck their toe in the water with Facebook developing calling applications. About a year ago Vonage developed a Facebook app that made it easy to contact friends who are using the social network. Now a new service is trying to do talk plus and the jingle, jangl … Read more
Being at CTIA I was looking for a story that was overlooked by yours truely last week. Well pal Jon Arnold tells us that Canadian cable and mobile phone leader Rogers has launched a Wi-Fi calling service aimed at business, aptly named Wi-Fi Calling for Business. Basically, its the same UMA based solution that T-Mobile … Read more
Image via Wikipedia Sprint, the nations third mobile operator in size, but the company that has always been first in mobile and network innovation, has broken ranks with the rest of the mobile operators and embraced the concept of the Over the Top play with Google Voice. While the news will likely get overshadowed by … Read more
In what has to be both a hedge on spectrum and a move to prevent anyone else from jumping up in class,AT&T has made a strategic move to acquire all of T-Mobile in the USA. What they get is similar wireless technology in GSM/HSPA/HSPA+ and LTE, plus they also get Wi-Fi that AT&T can use (or … Read more
Six Apart deserves credit for great support. I had a login problem on my new iPad. I fired off a note and by this morning it was replied to and fixed. The problem was minor, but the impact major. The second shout out goes to the Apple Business accounts team. As I was just back … Read more
Looking at the recent Telecom Paper report about Skype and their profitability one has to realize that the law of large numbers is starting to apply to the telecom minutes mover. Their growth by percentage actually is slowing down in percentage of registered users logging on by month, but that’s to be expected as the … Read more
Image via Wikipedia Let’s face it, rumors create headlines, and sometimes reporters get it wrong. That’s the case this past weekend around Google and the non-launch of Google Circles. But, if reporters thought like Fred Shero, the late and former Philadelphia Flyers hockey coach, they would understand tendencies and patterns. Back in 1974 the Flyers … Read more
When I was in Europe my ability to use Skype on some mobile networks made me feel like I had an Android device like the new Motorola Zoom on Verizon. I couldn’t. Gosh, it actually made me appreciate AT&T who has a much better sense of “open” than Verizon Wireless ever will have under current … Read more
Image via Wikipedia Is GetSatisfaction.com's SXSW HomeSick Blues remake/remodel of the Bob Dylan "Homesick Blues" true creative parody or is it a royal ripoff of long time wine maker Randall Grahm's "Sub-terroir Rhonesick Blues" marketing video? Grahm, who I have casually known via wine events and mutual friends since 1989 totally punked the wine reviewer world, taking pots shots … Read more
