Andy Abramson The New York Times today digs into the high stakes world of chips, and I’m not talking Las Vegas when it comes to SmartPhones. San Diego’s Qualcomm has been at the front of this line for years, and their tie up with Motorola, INQ and others shows that. Now Intel and Nokia are playing the … Read more
A group of winemakers in New Zealand has formed an organization to market and sell wines from New Zealand in the USA market. Named The Specialist Winegrowers of New Zealand (TSWNZ), their plan is to launching shortly in North American markets with five wineries as initial members. Culled from a group of 600 artisan winemakers, … Read more
Om is speculating and talking to his sources about just what aspect of the recently announced Skype & Verizon Wireless tie up is “exclusive.” My take is that it’s the special software that Skype built for Verizon that mimic what we’ve seen in the UK with 3. I don’t believe for a second that Skype’s … Read more
Give Peter Sisson credit for being first, and for TechCrunch breaking the story. Now Line2 offers 3G calling and receiving, with a second number on the iPhone. Reminds me of what Jeff Black and the crew at TalkPlus tried to do.
Don’t ever try to hide reality from those that know…and Todd Carothers knows. He spent time working with the folks at Openwave, then did some time with former client BridgePort Networks (since acquired by client CounterPath) and he’s fired off two very targeted posts aimed at the carriers and their network folks providing them options … Read more
Walt Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal has come out with a glowing review of MagicJack in the Journal this week. In the story Walt reveals that MJ’s parent is coming out with a Skype like service as well.
Not a week goes by when we don’t hear of yet another company entering into the aggregation of information space. This week we see Jabbin release their 3.0 Beta. This is a space filled with competition from the likes of VoxOx, Meebo, Truphone, Gizmo (when it’s back out) that do various pieces of the IM … Read more
The Skype press conference with Verizon wasn’t more than an hour over when Brian Deagon of Investors Business Daily rang up to ask my take on the move by Verizon to work with Skype. Brian is one of my favorite IBD reporters because he asks the kind of questions that get to the heart of … Read more
The Skype deal with Verizon Wireless proves the old adage of “what’s old is new again.” Fearing that throngs of Skype users would do to their EVDO network what the iPhone has done to AT+T, Verizon went with a circuit switched solution that is similar to what Three in the UK has had since 2008 … Read more
I like home grown companies, and this company, TelCentris is really that. Started by one of my neighbors and his sons, the company, which markets under the VoXOx name is releasing what they are describing as a universal translator tied to instant and social messaging that is built into the VoxOx client according to XConomy. … Read more
