Andy Abramson Image via Wikipedia If you want to move your mobile number to GoogleVoice, now you can. Earlier this week Google made it official last Tuesday. While this is great for those who swap carriers or who like to use pre-paid phones, shopping and swapping for the best deals in mobile, the real value here arrives when … Read more
Image via CrunchBase It may have snowed in the Northeast last week, but this coming week, the VoIP world heats up in Miami with IT Expo from TMCNet. Already promising to be one of the biggest IT Expo's ever, the four days of action in Miami begins Tuesday. One of the highlights will be StartUp … Read more
Image by DanYork via Flickr I’m about to go on a road trip this week with three of my team members. We’ll all flying at almost the same time, but on different routings to take advantage of low fares and our closest airports. Staying in touch with each isn’t hard by email, but it lacks … Read more
Longtime friend, and CounterPath founder, Erik Lagerway now runs the voice division of ZipLocal up in Vancouver. He has just announced the release of an open platform voice calling solution called ZipRing for the Apple iPhone. Personally I'm happy to see Erik get this one out the door, but my guess is that what he … Read more
Image via Wikipedia With every airplane ticket I purchase, included in the total price is the "Passenger Facility Charge." But more times than not, I often don't feel very facilitated. For example, have you ever gone into the rest room at the airport and had any of the following experiences: 1. Broken stall or toilet … Read more
My friend Larry Lisser, with whom we’ve helped exit Mobivox to Sabse and have collaborated on a few other startups together directly and indirectly (Momentum Telecom, IfByPhone and Fonolo) had a big idea a bit more than a year ago when he came up with the concept of Startup Camp Telephony, that would be run … Read more
Image of Domaine Combier via Snooth At the 2009 Decouverte du Rhone one one of the last few days of the weeklong tasting event than was held in and around Avignon, one of the wines I fell head over heels in love with was the 2006 Domaine Combier Crozes Hermitage, as well as their St. … Read more
Image via Wikipedia Every once in a while I get alerted to some fun events. Three are coming to mind right now, and one is just around the corner. Rhone Discovery Week, or in French, Decouvertes du Vallee du Rhone, is March 1-6 and starts this time in the Northern Rhone town of Ampuis. That … Read more
Image via Wikipedia The new Apple iPhone for Verizon is going to cause a shift in the the collaboration market, as services from Citrix's GoToMeeting, Cisco's WebEx and pal Alec Saunders company, Calliflower all have been building what the future needs, not living in the past. One of the major FUDs being spread by GSM … Read more
Image via CrunchBase One of the things I love about my friend Peter Csathy, a reformed Harvard Law School grad, is that he never forgot how to build his case and tell it so he can go out and sell it. After working with Peter for four years on SightSpeed, where he led them to … Read more
