Andy Abramson Over the last few months we’ve been hard at work with a semi-stealthy project at my agency with a client whose founder came out of a competitor of a former client who knew me from this blog and my work with a former client, Popular Telephony. The client, Tungle, was founded by Marc Gingras. Gingras … Read more
With nearly 200 people in the room here in London for the Telco 2.0 conference it clearly shows me that conference are alive. Coming roughly a month after eComm, Telco 2.0 is the big company perspective of what’s changing, while eComm was all about the emerging start-ups. The two events are outstanding book-end to the … Read more
Just like Verizon put FIOS in Walt Mossberg’s neighborhood from almost the very start, something I found rather humorous, it seems AT&T has picked a Starbucks in their own back yard of San Antonio to make the first store with WiFi. The first spotting of it was by Alan Weinkrantz a friend in the PR … Read more
Ken Rutkowski turned me on to this story in Lifehacker. The story provides step by step instructions for turning an iPod Touch into an iPhone of sorts that works with FreeVoIP and likely other SIP providers.
I hope the 3G service from T-Mobile comes to be soon. I just wonder if this means more competition to the existing carriers or a whole new device platform. Hopefully their flavor of 3G is no different than AT&T’s in the USA. I’d hate to have to now have a 3G phone for the rest … Read more
Aspiring Thomas Howe wannabees can try their luck in an innovation based Mashup contest around Lypp and HighRise, the CRM solution from 37Signals that starts today. Pal Erik Lagerway has the details.
Aaron Huslage has penned a nice introduction on Ostatic about FreeSwitch, a softswitch based on open source and open standard technology. Some of my agency’s clients use it and love it, so I’m familiar with it more than most. It has a lot under the hood and is clearly disruptive in my view.
Gosh how I miss flying Lufthansa. Not because the German flight attendant’s were also some of the most fun to chat with, but because they had WiFi from Boeing’s Conexxion platform before it ran out of gas. Now it seems the airlines are revving up the idea of WiFi on planes, but will ban phone … Read more
While this story largely focuses on Skype, the reality is the stats will benefit all the players in the game of online conferencing. In this case it’s great news for three clients who many of you are already familiar with. iotum has been hard at work with their Facebook Free Conferencing Calling platform racking up … Read more
Is Fring testing Apple’s mettle? With the release of the iPhone application today, as reported in TechCrunch, they may well be. Many of the developers who live in fear of Apple are avoiding the Jailbreak scenario. Fring is casting those fears aside and going for it regardless. This is much like reporters who are willing … Read more
