Andy Abramson The reference to a Flyers Alumni game at the Spectrum many years ago involved an event I produced, secured sponsorship and gave every ounce of energy to make happen. The person quoted, Charlie Able, was one of the many people who did so much for me in my youth when I was working my way … Read more
While I may be skeptical about a few other so called “data channel VoIP” that are being touted, this concept out of Israel and Syracuse, NY seems to fly. Based upon using unlicensed spectrum and deploying some kind of voice call continuity and roaming between WiFi hotspots the concept would appear to be plausible. In … Read more
I am taking the position that ripping off content is a bad thing, and Google led the pack by initially permitting all kinds of content into YouTube until such time as they could understand the metrics, and apply a revenue model based on advertising performance. Today GigaOm and NewTeeVee’s Liz Gaines story jumped to BusinessWeek … Read more
Esme Vos has a post earlier this week about what I am calling the 3G Choke Point on Muni Wireless. As a PolyNetwork carrier user I’ve seen what the greed of AT&T, and the lagging T-Mobile has done here in the USA with 3G data, and how the very conservative, but far more better managed … Read more
While I’m not a developer I can’t help but sing the praises of the annual ClueCon conference, held each year in Chicago. I was there last year and had a blast, but alas this year I can’t be there as I have a birthday coming up and will be in France for this one as … Read more
Media 5, a Quebec based company, is planning on releasing a SIP based client for the Apple iPhone via the App store in July. I was tipped off to this via About.com’s Nadeem Unuth.
Alec Saunders has a very good analysis on why free conferencing call service Foonz has bitten the dust. Long time readers (and listeners of KenRadio’s World Technology Roundup) will know well my views on FREE. It simply doesn’t work. We’ve all heard the expression “there’s no such thing as a free lunch.” Well in the … Read more
Given how much anti-VoIP, no calling from the skies GoGo has made to date to support American Airlines and other no-call policies I guess some may be surprised about the upcoming Oprah call via Skype. I’m not. Aircell which is the company behind GoGo promotes the VoIP capabilities to their private jet/non-commerical customers all the … Read more
Never to be accused of standing still in any type of economy, networking giant Cisco is “getting” smaller. After years of struggling with what their mobile strategy will be, the company is figuring out how to take some of its core assets like WebEx and others and migrate them from the desktop to the mobile … Read more
The just announced survey results regarding HD Voice, the subject of Jeff Pulver’s conference this week, that was conducted by client GIPS, shows a market that is ripe for the technology. No surprise but HiDef conference calling figured high on the list, but so did the use in call centers, as part of where respondents … Read more
