Andy Abramson IDG’s Nancy Gohring, has done some really good investigative work about the Zer01 mobile service. Reading through what Nancy has written puts CTIA and it’s entire awards process under a microscope as ZER01 was a CTIA award winner… The key line in my book by Nancy who deserves a medal for her detective work: But … Read more
Michael Robertson, AKA “the Disruptor” wasn’t happy with only doing unto Skype before Skype doeth to him so he launched OpenSky. Now he’s taking aim at GoogleVoice with Guava-Google Unauthorized Android Voice Access. Basically, this is possible due to a peering relationship between Gizmo and GoogleVoice that dates back to the GrandCentral days. What does … Read more
My favorite mixed drink at Hawksmoor in London.
MaxRoam’s Pat Phelan let me in on some news tonight. Global Roaming Solutions Ltd (Hong Kong) and Cubic Telecom (Ireland) are announcing a new mobile roaming SIM card that will save consumers money over their usual mobile bills. Dubbed Buzzroam, this becomes is the first GSM SIM card available in Asia which provides access to … Read more
When Peter Csathy was at the helm of SightSpeed the company had vision and direction that included small business. Now under the Logitech leadership the company is moving mostly in the consumer direction. Over in NYC, ooVoo is rapidly growing and moving in the direction that SightSpeed was headed until it was acquired. In reading … Read more
It seems the way Vonage presents their 800 number traffic makes local resident calls to 800 numbers look like their out of market. Since the receiving party pays, faux-pas like this are bound to happen. The radio station uses the ANI (Automatic Number Identification) as a way to verify the caller’s name and address. It … Read more
I’m a rabid user of client Nokia’s E71 so you can bet I’m just chomping at the bit at the next generation E72 which now is with the FCC.
New York legislators are going to get a good old country whippen, if they’re not carful. Talk about bait and switch. Wow. Every month New Yawkers shell out .70 cents on their cell phone bill (and that’s going up to $1.20 soon) per mobile number to support 911 services, so you would think the money … Read more
Right now Comcast isn’t offering a mobile phone service, but they will. And what way better to market to take away the customer from their biggest competitor, AT&T, than with an easy to use, and well thought out iPhone application. What i find so funny here is that Comcast has this app out and running … Read more
Tom Keating picked up on the recent Nimbuzz Mac client announcement which I missed last week. I suspect that we’ll see a lot more in the area of softphones, especially on the Mac. To date most softphones have been designed for PCs and then ported. In the next few months we’ll likely see some native … Read more
