Andy Abramson According to London based Infonetics Research the sale of data cards are growing around the world. This is great for companies like iPass. Now all they need is a 3G consumer play to go past the millions of enterprise customers who use their service for global WiFi roaming. GSM would be my preferred play, but … Read more
It looks like it won’t be long before VOIP, Skype and SightSpeed all can be used in more places. As HSUPA comes to be, with a more stable, and albeit, faster upload path, voice and video over a 3G connection will begin to emerge. Already 3G users like me are running Truphone or Gizmo over … Read more
Last weekend I was upgrading my Windows XP and Vista laptops and installed Gizmo 5. One of the features I wanted to try out was the consolidated IM feature that easily aggregates all your buddy lists from the usual suspects more conveniently than the prior versions. Gizmo 5 also has some video capabilities too. Unfortunately, … Read more
In an attempt to appease the FCC, Comcast is working around the bandwidth hogs with a solution, on the surface. What this is really about is Comcast becoming its own CDN of sorts, and eliminating the need for total reliance on the companies who are the giants. By working with Bit Torrent to share files, … Read more
I’m both humbled and elated at the two posts from people I consider peers and colleagues, as well as friends that popped up yesterday. First was Lee Dryburgh’s heartfelt commentary on the efforts of my team at Comunicano and my own contribution to eComm. To put matters into perspective, I offered to help because it … Read more
I’m saddened by this report. If anyone thinks this is good news they’re wrong. It’s not. While I’ve made an attempt to reach Pulver Media representatives for comment so far at 1115 PM EDT, no response after more than two hours. I know Jeff well enough that he has more on his mind than to … Read more
One has to wonder if this rumor about a dual lensed iPhone with 3G is true. I say wonder because a lot of what Apple is doing around the iPhone seems to be following their desire to get the product into the business/enterprise market and as we’ve just seen with the VoIP capable RIM Blackberry … Read more
I just found a new blog on VoIP that seems to be very heavy on product and service reviews. Called EasyAsVoIP, it is part of the B5 Media network of blogs. I like what I’m seeing…so it’s worth a read.
Jon Arnold sent me a note wondering why I hadn’t posted much about VON. Well for starters it was because I was very busy there inside and around the event. On site I did what meetings I needed to. I wandered into booths that interested me and had the briefings with companies that seem to … Read more
A lot, I mean A LOT of attention has finally kicked in behind the idea of Voice over WiFi with the release of the newest Blackberry, the 8820 with WiFi. While users of the “Curve” have already had this feature, and made use of it with the T-Mobile Hot Spot @ Home service, but this … Read more
