Hictu Adds Jajah Calling

Pal Luca has shared with me the launch of an integration of Jajah with Hictu. It is an elegant way to have social communications and may be about the best demonstration of using the Jajah APIs to work beyond a web browser that I have seen.

Gizmo5 Offers Backdoor Dialing

Give the Gizmo5 team some credit for a catchy name for their new service called “Backdoor Dialing” that makes more calls free. It appears what they are basically doing is connecting SIP numbers the same way others like Voxalot and JunctionNetworks are too making those calls that go to numbers which are Net connected free. … Read more

I Feel Sad About Not Being In Miami This Week

A few bloggers and some industry folks have asked to meet up in Miami this week during TMC’s ITEXPO. As I told Rich Tehrani a few weeks ago in a personal email, client business has taken me out of the country this week. With a series of meetings in Israel and London it makes it … Read more

AT&T SIM Only Means Freedom of Choice

AT&T Wireless now will offer SIM only plans. This opens up the network more easily to unlocked phones. It also means when you go to their store you no longer will be forced to buy a phone you don’t need. It also means that the subsidy of a handset isn’t needed, and thus in theory … Read more

AT&T Making Unlimited Data on iPhone for Business

This is called a bellweather announcement from AT&T. By dropping the price to $65 a month for all kinds of unlimited data, visual voicemail and SMS means that the new high water mark has been set and that over time we will see the price points dropping, and more options for mobile data coming from … Read more

Mobivox Gets Scobalized at CES

Robert Scoble caught up with client Mobivox and their COO Nitzan Shaer at CES last week and gets the low down on Mobivox’s breakthrough calling service where calls between users are free regardless of phone, be it landline, mobile or even an older rotary dial phone. One of Mobivox’s unique features is the ability to … Read more