Andy Abramson Image via Wikipedia Back in 1999 when I was wet behind the ears, and just getting into voice and VoIP, Jacob Tirosh, then the founder and CEO of Comgates, an Israel based softswitch developer gave me a lesson in protocol. TDM, h.323, Megaco and SIP he proffered all needed to be interoperable, and the softswitch … Read more
Image via Wikipedia I landed on Friday in Lisbon, where for the next week I’ll be working from a seaside garret in the town of Cascais, looking at the Atlantic with the next stop across the water being the tip of Maine from all accounts local. When I first landed, I immediately grabbed a … 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
Image via Wikipedia I like Dean Bubley's quick analysis (with more to come) on Cisco's just released data on mobile data. The reason-he's cutting through the b.s. and calling it as he sees it. As a former DataMonitor analyst in his past, numbers form the basis of all he, and most analysts really do. The … Read more
Image via CrunchBase First there was TalkPlus, a company started by Jeff Black and John Todd. Then there was Jangl from Michael Cerda who pretty much handed the intellectual property to Jajah (now part of Telefonica) so it would have a home. Others have been around too, and now one of those which has lasted … Read more
Credit Ralph De La Vega with seeing the way to the future. In the last quarter the mobile group has put on 2 million new devices. Note the shift from “cell phone” subscribers in this story by Kevin Fritchard over at Connected Planet Online. The change in language is all about demonstrating that AT&T is … Read more
Wireless Moves had a very informative post that skipped by my radar due to travel that helps frame out which mobile operators will be ready for Voice over LTE. Here in the USA we have T-Mobile, but they are not moving ahead with LTE that quickly, and pushing HSPA+ as their standard of choice so … Read more
Image via Wikipedia First the Wall Street Journal reported Skype may be putting their planned $100 million dollar or greater IPO on hold. Then out came TechCrunch with more fuel for the fire. So while I think the slowdown has everything to do with figuring out how to make money, not just gain more users … Read more
Image via Wikipedia Gizmodo has taken a look at the recent news from Google and the opportunity in the USA to port your mobile number to Google Voice and presented the pros and cons. In my view if you're using an Android phone, then the deeper integration of GV makes it less of a hurdle, … Read more
I have been a friend of Dean Bubley's for quite a few years, and consider him one of the world's leading Blogalysts (an independent analyst who uses the blog format to share perspective, insight and opinion) This past week he took to task another respected analyst, Gabe Brown article, that surrounds VoLTE and IMS. Dean, … Read more
