Andy Abramson Waveboard is a new Mac application that makes Wave more easier to manage and takes it out of the browser. As a Wave user now for about a week I find the concept interesting and evolving, but I’m not addicted to it yet like I could be to Twitter or Facebook. What I do like … Read more
This week we look at Skype possibly buying Gizmo, the amnesia of Sidekick, Google offering Free WiFi on Virgin America and eComm.
If you have to Fly and want to stay connected, Virgin America and Google are giving away free WiFi for the holiday season. Now, what’s good here is if you use Google Voice you can at least receive your messages as transcribed text. Then again, maybe they’ll let us use Google Talk voice and video…hmmmm
Phil Wolff has a great post on how voice becomes more than cheap calling via Skype. Larry Lisser writes up why voice is back in vogue. Alec Saunders gets under the hood and shows just what AT&T may be up to in the battle around free conference calling and more. The Wall Street Journal reports … Read more
Sidekick users can rejoice. Instead of suffering brain damage, it looks like the data loss is turning out to be more a case of amnesia.
I’ve had a day to reflect on the rumor of Skype buying Gizmo (actually they would be buying all of Sipphone) and why it’s more than just good for the VoIP industry. For starters, just the fact that Skype is thinking of SIP as the alternative to JoltID is a good sign. It brings all … Read more
One of the things one learns is that one can often be right without saying much. For months as the JoltID suit has been rearing its ugly head I’ve been saying Skype is a brand not a technology and they would simply go all SIP. That opens the door to a lot of potential moves, … Read more
In a move that Fierce VoIP is calling a limited release by Comcast, the nations largest cable operator, of HomePoint, a converged VoIP/Router, it would appear that finally, after making all the needed in network (e.g. getting all the hardware and software to be the same in all markets) infrastructure work completed, Big C is … Read more
This week I talk about the almost laughable actions of the FCC and Google Voice, the comical but Dangerous memory loss by Microsoft and Danger, a quick peek at what you need to know about Clearwire-whose picture is get more clear and how T-Mobile in the UK now allows VoIP over Mobile Broadband, all on … Read more
I have to give pal Paul Kapustka credit for being the man in the know when it comes to Clearwire and 4G. His just released ClearWire NTK (for need to know) report is chock full of insight, analysis and solid reasoning. Now only if he had mentioned the term PocketSpot would he have gotten an … Read more
