Mobile Trends 2020

Have you seen the great assembly of insight and expertise from M-Trends in the report called Mobile Trends 2020? Granted I was asked to contribute my view (see page 25) but the rest of the group has some rather keen insight too. Forget the so called “experts” on panels at CTIA and Mobile World Congress … Read more

FlatPlanet and Dynamic Caller ID

Pal Moshe Maeir sent a few bloggers a note about his post that revealed a new offer of Dynamic Caller ID. Om has some comments. I spoke with Moshe about it, and right now the service is tied to his company selling SIP termination, but in my view the real value is as a cloud … Read more

8×8 Outage Wasn’t Their Fault

As I wrote yesterday, the outage at 8×8 wasn’t likely their fault so i was quite pleased when their PR person, Joan Citelli, sent me this note today: Andy – I wanted to provide you with an update/explanation of what caused 8×8’s service outage this past Tuesday. In order to provide services to our customers … Read more

8 x 8 Has an Outage

I received an email late yesterday afternoon from a reader about 8 x 8 suffering an outage. Unlike Tom Keating, who posted, I didn’t post, and was relieved that their PR folks had been quickly in touch with their customers over night, explaining the situation. In an era where no company (other than maybe the … Read more

Will WalMart Be the Next WiMax Tower Host?

A not so wild report has WalMart hosting towers for Sprint/Clearwire’s rollout of WiMax. I don’t think the report is that far fetched. Having experimented with Mobile WiMax last week in Las Vegas I have to say the experience on the ground and when driving around was one that I’d like to repeat.

Skype To Focus on Business and Collaboration

Skype has made a strategic hire to head the unit called Skype for Business. What makes the hire strategic is the person’s background with Reuters, Microsoft and VocalTec. Given the experience David Gurle has, and the moves Skype is making, I would say that SIP, video and the business markets are their core objectives for … Read more

Update on GoGO

Joe Sharkey has an update on the state of in flight WiFi in today’s New York Times. As a road warrior I choose my flights and hotels based on the broadband options available. Over the past month my trips to Northern California were 90 percent on Virgin America and only ten percent on Southwest. As … Read more

Update on GoGO

Joe Sharkey has an update on the state of in flight WiFi in today’s New York Times. As a road warrior I choose my flights and hotels based on the broadband options available. Over the past month my trips to Northern California were 90 percent on Virgin America and only ten percent on Southwest. As … Read more