Andy Abramson Ted Wallingford’s comment about the SMB space got me thinking. If more companies now have an in house VoIP maven, doesn’t that mean there’s more opportunities to sell VoIP related hardware, software and services? The key becomes finding those people. Since many of the job holders have been found via recruiters, that means the smart … Read more
I’m one of those fliers who remembers when GTE had seat back phones on airplanes and offered a flat fee for year’s use of calling. What a deal. But over time, the in seat phone, along with their not always perfect sound connection disappeared from the flying tubes. In today’s era we likely don’t need … Read more
I am working hard at not going on the road as much in 2009 as the last 20 months have been rather exhausting. Between the planning of my two wedding events in 2007, the two events, one in Montpeyroux France and the other in San Francisco, plus the extended renovations in my community to 90 … Read more
I have to wonder what the SF Examiner would have said if they had either Verizon’s FIOS or SureWest’s FTTH connectivity. In areas where AT&T is the only option to the cable company, AT&T’s UVerse is looking like a pretty good home or workplace upgrade to DSL. I mean, in some areas they are promising … Read more
Back in 2005 client Iotum went to Demo, captured a Demo god award for Pronto, a conference all and calendar mashup that brought intelligence to the conference calling arena. Last year client ifByPhone rolled out what Professor Mashup Thomas Howe calls one of the easiest to use Voice API platforms around. Now I see Ringful … Read more
Om Malik is a Mac fan through and through. So I have to wonder if he changes his opinion of NetBooks and joins the rest of us who have embraced them already when (if) Apple comes out with one of their own. You see, there are times for my Mac Book Pro or Mac Book … Read more
Dean Bubley hits on the value of Pay As You Go Broadband with the 3 USB dongle that is both Windows and Mac compatible. Dean nails it for the occasional visitor to the UK who needs connectivity where WiFi isn’t or is so expensive the USB dongle is the better deal. Note: I have one. … Read more
For companies that sell their services solely based on VoIP in the middle, this move by Optus isn’t good news. In essence what Optus is doing and saying to their customers is if you’re their contractee, all calls go over the Optus network and the Optus long distance network. No dialing around. No call backs, … Read more
History always repeats. No question about that. First media form to grow big was the newspaper. Chains emerged. Profits soared. The most powerful force in any community was the newspaper. Think about it, every major comic strip from SuperMan, to the Green Hornet to Spiderman had the newspaper as a center piece of the story … Read more
Over the past month or so, both in the USA and in Europe I’ve been a big user of public transportation. Whether it has been a cab, private town car, the light rail or even the underground/metro or subway, I’ve been taking advantage of whatever mode gets me where I need to go the quickest. … Read more
