So What’s New?

Stuart in his post yesterday basically asked what’s new? I agree. In many ways he’s right. A lot of what we see these days is really what I keep calling “Me Too, Me Also, not Me Different” from many companies. That’s why eComm should be very exciting. Many new companies will actually be showing NEW … Read more

Small Office Systems Coming to Light

Last year we worked with Telephony2, a small angel backed company that had a killer telephony service suite for SOHO based on .Net. This year we’ve seen TokTumi and now Jazinga come to market. My question is not if there is a market, but how any of these companies plan to get to the market. … Read more

In The VON Innovators Circle

Yesterday the news broke about 65 companies that the VON and PulverMedia team consider innovators with the launch of the VON Innovators Award. I’m happy to say that of the 65 companies I’m aligned with five of them, four of which I advise or which my agency, Comunicano handles their external communications. Congratulations to Agito … Read more

Fring Touting GPS Tracking IM Using Google Maps

I’m not so sure that using Fring is a good idea if you want any kind of privacy. While Fring’s privacy settings on the handset require enable you to switch the fringME! location feature on or off this whole idea of tracing someone’s movements is getting a little extreme. Since a lot of people pass … Read more

All Hotel Networks Are Not Created Equal

One of the things about hotel networks I’m learning is they are not always the same. I can be in a hotel with T-Mobile and a second WiFi provider and in the end, T-Mobile wins. For some reason the other networks usually block some port, do something with NAT, or make it impossible for WiFi … Read more

Google Apps Mail

I keep getting hooked more and more on Google Apps Mail. Over the last two weeks I’ve been using it more and more, and thanks to MomatHOME’s Judi Sohn’s well timed tip, I started using MailPlane. Within three days of use I bought and paid for it. Microsoft–to keep longtime users of Exchange from migrating … Read more

Verizon Wireless–Not Learning From Vodafone

You would think…that with a partnership that includes Vodafone that VZW would understand the growing mobile data market better. They don’t. Dean Bubley (who drives a very slick TVR Roadster) has the details why. This is a case of too many years of the network being run by the voice guys who really don’t understand … Read more

The Heck With Helio

Pal David “Mr. Blog” Beckemeyer just put Helio under the bus, and considering David’s former company, the company he co-founded, Earthlink, is a significant investor in Helio, this is big talk from someone who knows. Aside from their beautiful and bubbly PR person Brooke Hammerling, Helio has never done a thing for me. Beyond that … Read more