Andy Abramson It looks like BT’s OpenZone has added Starbucks rival Caffe Nero to their growing list of locations. I’ve been in Caffe Nero and enjoyed their coffee more. Now I’ll have one more reason to linger around the storefront cafes when in London.
It looks like the barrier to entry for Mobile VoIP keeps getting lower and lower, as SipGate, a European player in the game has struck a deal with Pirelli to be able to sell their dual mode phone for under 60 Euros. At the same time, the patent protection firms seem to be going into … Read more
It looks like BT’s OpenZone has added Starbucks rival Caffe Nero to their growing list of locations. I’ve been in Caffe Nero and enjoyed their coffee more. Now I’ll have one more reason to linger around the storefront cafes when in London.
Yesterday I had a meeting in a conference room at a clients that for whatever the reason only had a regular speakerphone, not the weapon of choice, a Polycom. It wasn’t a problem though as I carried in my overnight bag one of the essentials for a road warrior/global nomad, the Polycom C-100 S, portable … Read more
One of the companies that first crossed my radar back in the fall at Fall VON was Fonolo. Shai Berger took me through his deck, much the way Craig Walker did a year earlier with GrandCentral. As I listened to what was unfolding I kept relating mentally and verbally to my own personal experiences, and … Read more
Rich Tehrani has some concerns about Deep Packet inspection and how service provider are or may be operating. My take on this is that the operators are missing the boat. Instead of using the data they gather to shut people off, they should be using the information to better market services to those who need … Read more
With eComm, VON and CTIA behind me, the next event of importance is Telco 2.0. Dubbed by the organizers, including Martin Geddes, as an Executive Brainstorm, Telco 2.0 may be the most important conferences of the first half of the year if your business is telecom, VoIP or Mobile 1.0, 1.5 or 2.0. I had … Read more
I’m a big fan of both 37 Signals Amazon Web Services so when I saw that pal Erik Lagerway was using it and that they’ve added Call Recording to their API I had to smile. They’re following the lead of others like Grand Central and Vapps, two services we already use that offer the Call … Read more
My wife’s house in Sacramento gives most of my online pals broad-band envy. Helene has SureWest as her ISP and we get 50 megs in both directions. When I’m in our Sacramento home, the ping test time is 4 ms. That’s why, like Om, I’m not really expecting much from the cable MSO’s who are … Read more
Garrett Smith of VoIP Supply has launched Mobile VoIP Review. There are a few reviews of my agency’s clients there so without further ado, here’s MobileVoIPReview. It looks like it’s worth bookmarking.
