Andy Abramson Over in London I enjoy staying in the Andaz, a hotel property of Hyatt that was designed by the famed Terrance Conran. It’s a converted hospital less than a 100 yards from Liverpool Street Station. At the Andaz I get free coffee, free laundry for essentials, refreshed water, free broadband and a few other perks. … Read more
Motorola is clearly not just thinking about cellular phones these days. They’re busily moving into a full blown WiFi VoIP handset that works with a very robust server and lots of security features.
Touting both GSM and WiMax for Mobile, HTC has launched a new phone in Russia that will provide up to ten megs of connectivity, plus be able to view 23 TV channels tat will be sent over the WiMax network. Not unexpected, VoIP will be part of the dual mode phone when on WiMax.
Mr. Mashup 3.0 Thomas Howe was in the room. Alec Saunders, the man who gave us Internet Explorer and now is pushing the envelope to enable active conversations with Calliflower was there. Frederik and Paul of Jajah were there too, as was Dr. Don Thorson and a few of his Ribbiteers from Ribbit. Dan York … Read more
In looking over the line up of today’s Under The Radar I’m quite happy to see the number of voice apps there. If Web 2.0 was 2007, it’s clear that in 2008 Voice has become the word of the day, and in 2009 making money is what we will start to see. Companies like Mobivox, … Read more
The folks at Google keep innovating, adding video conferencing to Gmail on both the Mac and the PC. Just as soon as I can find someone on my chat list who is also using Gmail on the Premier side of the fence, I’ll try it.
My longtime blogger buddy, who I always have said is one of the smartest engineers I know has launched his dream, enthinnai and he’s looking for feedback.
CrunchGear reports that the European Union is looking into the operations of the mobile carriers to see if they blocked VoIP over their networks. The expected end result is, “you can’t do that Mr. Carrier.” This would be excellent news for the mobile VoIP players like client Truphone or others whose service works very well … Read more
Intelepeer raised $18 million dollars on the heels of iSkoot raising 19 million. Who said there’s no money in telecom or VoIP? When I see this kind of money in series C being spent, it’s clear to me that the VC’s and others look at the early rounds as “build it” rounds. Now the market … Read more
Yesterday client Boingo acquired OptiFi, another aggregator/operator of airport hotspots, much like Boingo’s Concourse Communications purchase, and their buy of Sprint’s airport hotspot division. The timing couldn’t be better as one well regarded wireless analyst firm I follow closely has indicated that the rollout of WiMax won’t be as fast as people expected, and I … Read more
