The Smart Show
Meet Damon. He produces the Smart Show, a cool show about life and technology. I’m going to be on an upcoming episode.
Andy Abramson
BYOD Please, Says Verizon Wireless
I expect that the move by Verizon Wireless to allow people to go month to month without a contract and bring their own devices to their network will cause a similar reaction with other mobile operators here in the USA. This also means the market for higher-end, more feature rich phones will finally come to … Read more
News and Notes for Monday
John Carroll at ZDNet takes a developer’s perspective and explains why SIP Is it. Tom Keating highlights the patriotism of SightSpeed and the Pros vs. Joes activities they are supporting. Dan York takes a both sides of the street approach to the public discussion between Skype and GizmoProject about SIP and Skype and being more … Read more
GIPS Defeats Spirit On Their Home Turf
In what has to be a blow to the homeland favorite, SPIRIT DSP, Norwegian codec king GIPS grabbed the voice communications crown in Russia, winning the contract to supply a voice engine to Mail.ru reports VoIP-News out of the UK. GIPS, which is best known as the creators and inventors of iLBC, and as the … Read more
A Couple of Predictions
Some may call this trolling, but I have to air these thoughts out: 1. T-Mobile or Three will create a true VOIP play complete with a softclient for the PC. Bets are it will be either Counterpath’s eyeBeam or SipPhone’s Gizmo Project client as they are both multi-platform, but I give Gizmo the edge as … Read more
Nice Guys Finish FIRST
It’s great to see two friends (and clients) finish first. While I’m a few days late to the congratulatory circle, I have to say, it feels great to know that two very close friends, Thomas (Professor Mashup) Howe and Shai Berger (Fonolo) have captured very impressive crowns this past week in different competitions. First was … Read more
Would Google Buy Skype? Maybe
Rich Tehrani refers to a post earlier that I made about the possibility of Google buying Skype and suggests a few others. While Google has the bucks to make the buy, as does Cisco and Oracle, I don’t see the latter two jumping in. They like to be enterprise friendly, and Skype is perceived as … Read more
UK Mobile Broadband Gets Better and Better
If this is a glimpse at what T-Mobile in the USA will be doing, we have lots of data options ahead. T-Mobile basically has created a no-contract necessary rate with their new pricing of 20 pounds a month, or 2 pounds a day, 10 pounds a week. You buy a T-Mobile broadband data stick and … Read more
Truphone and Other Cost Cutting Tactics for the International Traveler
Tim Leffel of Tripso has a story on the MSNBC site about cost cutting telephone tactics. One of the services Leffel gives high praise to is Truphone, an agency client. The key points Leffel makes is that there are alternatives to high roaming rates that are easy to use, and won’t break the bank.
Truphone and Other Cost Cutting Tactics for the International Traveler
Tim Leffel of Tripso has a story on the MSNBC site about cost cutting telephone tactics. One of the services Leffel gives high praise to is Truphone, an agency client. The key points Leffel makes is that there are alternatives to high roaming rates that are easy to use, and won’t break the bank.