Andy Abramson The New York Times Practical Traveler today has a feature on the price of staying connected that focuses on hotel WiFi and its pricing and various consumer and industry expert reactions, but it only tells part of the story, as it focused mostly on pricing. There are four types of traveler using hotel broadband: 1) … Read more
Of late I’ve become consumed with the idea of video and the Internet. It’s a harking back of sorts to my early days along with Ken Rutkowski when we were working on a content company called Plus Media back in the 1.0 era. So now that broadband, even mobile broadband and yes, even in-flight broadband … Read more
Ken Rutkowski passed this link on to me about a customer from Verizon who has a billing problem between what he was quoted and what he was billed. It’s very laughable.
When I first heard about Verizon, the landline telco, starting to go into the business of offering WiFi, I thought, “here we go again” as we’ve already seen them start, then stop deploying hotspots in their service markets. Back in 2003/2004 Verizon did to WiFi the same as AOL did to VoIP. They bent over … Read more
We’ve all become accustomed to getting our email anywhere we can find an Internet connection, but what about all that hard copy mail we receive? Well thanks to Geared Travel I learned about “Earth Class Mail” a service that works a lot like PayTrust does for your bill. Set up seems to be easy. You … Read more
I have to keep wondering when Skype will open up, ala OpenSkype from Gizmo5 and enable SIP to Skype calling? Will it be when the JoltID case gets settled, even if more is being made of it than maybe there should be? The solution currently is OpenSkype, but if Skype decides to go SIP then … Read more
One of the problems with most of the consumer satellite broadband offerings has been the issue of latency. Well it sounds like Europe and the UK will be the first to experience a new form of Satellite broadband that’s good enough for streaming media and VoIP. The service called Tooway is due to roll out … Read more
Veteran gadget guy Steve Kovsky picked client Truphone as a cool product that can save you money on his regular news segment in San Diego on XETV.
My father taught me the impossible we do right away, but a miracle, that takes a little longer. Until today I had never flown on a WiFi 2.0 enabled plane, though I was a regular flier internationally on flights equipped with the older version from Boeing, but of course longtime readers know that I proved … Read more
I think it’s time to look at AOL and Yahoo’s core asset base of technology and see what’s worth buying. For example both have/had developed amazing Voice Platforms. AOL spent millions on a VoIP service that was reportedly stifled by Time Warner and their parental spanking of AOL for daring to develop a phone service … Read more
