Skype As The Biggest Long Distance Player

A lot has been said the last few days about the Telegeography report about Skype being the biggest long distance provider in the world. I’m not at all surprised and would have been shocked if it had been any other way. Here’s why: 1) People who never talked before by phone have started to talk … Read more

Skype and SIP Equals A Takeaway of Toll Free

Somewhere over the weekend or on Monday I got a note about Skype now being interoperable with SIP. One thought immediately crossed my mind. DEATH TO 800/Toll free numbers. Slow. Painful. Death. You see as more and more people adopt Skype and use it to call out the one missing piece has been how in … Read more

Tales of Hotels and Bandwidth

As a regular road warrior I can’t stress enough the importance of having really solid bandwidth and decent access when you’re traveling. It may seem like a broken record, but for those of us who actually work on the road and consider hotels, coffee shops, remote work sites and friends’ houses an extension of our … Read more

Confessions of A NetBook Junkie

I have to admit that I’m a Netbook Junkie. Ever since I first laid eyes on a “black beauty,” that little capsule of joy, all 7 inches of Linux packing, Skype weilding, Firefox ready and Thunderbird enabled, I was hooked. I was so hooked I bought my first one in France, only to find of … Read more