Andy Abramson A survey in the UK shows that a lot of Brits will be looking to connect to the net with a mobile device. That’s giving rise to the sale of pocketspots, also known as the MiFi. As someone who uses both data dongles and 3G/4G Pocketspots from Novatel Wireless and the Sprint Overdrive made by … Read more
A survey in the UK shows that a lot of Brits will be looking to connect to the net with a mobile device. That’s giving rise to the sale of pocketspots, also known as the MiFi. As someone who uses both data dongles and 3G/4G Pocketspots from Novatel Wireless and the Sprint Overdrive made by … Read more
Tom Keating drew my attention to Konnect, a new Peer 2 Peer telephony system. Years back one of my first VoIP clients inside my agency was a company called Popular Telephony. The company fell on hard times and the intellectual property was eventually sold off for very little money. The idea was simple. A P2P … Read more
For years the mobile operators have avoided the reality of the situation when it comes to coverage and solutions. Now comes a report from the New York Times that the leading mobile operators in the USA are contending that wireless boosters interfere with the smooth running of their networks. What’s ironic is those “boosters” and … Read more
Dear Prudence, It was a Long and Winding Road, but today Apple decided they could just Let It Be. Yes I know. the service’s application that almost started a Revolution and wasn’t available Yesterday has surfaced today for real, and nobody had to hold a Revolver to anyone’s head to make it happen. I mean, … Read more
IntoMobile is reporting that Nimbuzz had to drop another Instant Messaging platform, ICQ which is owned by AOL. Previously Nimbuzz dropped Skype under threat of legal action from the Skype attorneys. I’m not surprised and would expect to see similar noise from Yahoo and Microsoft at some point in the future, not because I agree, … Read more
Friends who know about IT outsourcing like my pal Tony Greenberg of RampRate, have been telling me for years that it’s more than just price and SLA’s that you have to look for when enterprise scale companies look to make decisions on their purchasing of IT services. Well it looks like Netflix has taken that … Read more
FuzeBox, the company formally known as Callwave, has rolled out Fuze for Android Tablets, bring VoIP based conferencing to the newest flavor of the month with the new and shiny set.. According to Walt Mossberg in this weeks AllThingsD and the Wall Street Journal: It’s a serious alternative to the iPad and one that will … Read more
Phone.com has announced they’re now supporting automated speech to text translation services. The new service would be slightly different than PhoneTag, which was purchased in 2009 by Ditech Networks, as PhoneTag is reportedly combining automated transcription with some level of human intervention to insure accuracy. Regardless whether its all automated or has some human help, more … Read more
Well, it looks like Sprint will be getting more money from me soon. Not only am I exploring the idea of a new Galaxy Tab, but now it seems the PEEL from ZTE is coming down the pike in a week or so. For me the PEEL may be the first item acquired, as I … Read more
