Does Beta Culture Hurts Products?

With a hat tip to pal Jonathan Greene, he drew my attention to the concept of Beta Culture. I’m not so biased when things are free against Beta, as the trade off for getting to try the new and shinny products and software requires some quid-pro-quo, with the quo being “pain, blues and agony” at … Read more

Nokia To Start Cell Phone Service In Japan

Client Nokia is going to start their own cell phone service in Japan as an MVNO, largely to position and market their higher end phones reports Reuters. Japan is known for being one of the most advanced mobile societies. I remember a Japanese businessman showing me how he uses his phone to gain access to … Read more

Virgin America Adds InFlight WiFi

At a press event yesterday Glenn Fleishman, aka Mr. WiFi NetNews, and others got to experience the new in flight WiFi available on Virgin America. Its pretty much the same thing that you’re going to find on American Airlines and Delta, with one difference. Virgin and Google are offering video streaming with Google, and they’re … Read more

Virgin America Adds InFlight WiFi

At a press event yesterday Glenn Fleishman, aka Mr. WiFi NetNews, and others got to experience the new in flight WiFi available on Virgin America. Its pretty much the same thing that you’re going to find on American Airlines and Delta, with one difference. Virgin and Google are offering video streaming with Google, and they’re … Read more

Pulver Goes Social

Jeff Pulver is without question one of the visionary type people who sees things far differently, and usually earlier than many. He was one of the first people to jump on the VoIP bandwagon before it was a big deal and was always the guy tinkering with technology long before others would even dream of … Read more

Skype Adds Xobni Integration

According to my sources the first choice of which IM client for XOBNI to integrate with was Skype hands down as Skype was far and away the most used Instant Messaging platform that the XOBNI users are on. Unfortunately with no Mac version in sight, I can only drool over pal Jeff Bonforte’s company’s email … Read more

The Softphone Market

Michael Graves has what he calls a rant on softphones. I call it a good recap on the state of the sector that is just begging for a winner. While he omitted Gizmo5 from SipPhone, he sure gave CounterPath’s EyeBeam the Texas style whoopin’ they deserve. Despite starting out as the best and most useful … Read more

Something New For GrandCentral Users

I was whipping through my TweetDeck Tweets last night when I came across a random note about a new app from Google’s Code, a place where Google developers hang out and put out all kinds of things. What caught my eye was something that seems so simple one has to wonder why it took this … Read more