Andy Abramson Hat tip to Rich Tehrani for his eagle eye find of what I’m going to name “The Japanese Bundle.” By offering free minutes between mobile and VoIP called numbers to customers Softbank is hoping to take away market share from the likes of NTT. It may just work.
A report on DSLReports brings to light a practice that has been long going on in the mobile industry over to VoIP.
The show open tomorrow following the Keynote by Steve Jobs. I’m looking forward to walking the floor with pal Mr. Blog. That will make it extra special.
Pal Paul Amery, who was unceremoniously made redundant in the month of December by the grinches at Skype along with a few others in the developer program, has joined the blogosphere. Paul will provide some very good insight into VoIP and VoIP software development as well as how to build an ecosystem with developers. I … Read more
London dining buddy and pal Dean Bubley has a very insightful and highly rational piece on why the embedded 3G PC’s won’t sell. I’m in his court. Instead if the carriers want to really sell data plans they should be working with Asus and others like them who are making and selling this dirt cheap … Read more
I’ve been wanting to get around to testing the new Logitech High Def webcam that came over the holidays, but since both the Mac and the Flybook already have webcams built in, I’ve not had the reason to. Alec’s post today reminds me that maybe I should try it with the Flybook when I take … Read more
Back in 2005 Westfield Americas announced an agreement with WFI, the company that is pretty much the Mercedes Benz of wireless deployments in the world. The agreement was for the deployment of WIFI for both the family of malls tenants as well as for folks like me who have to play bag carrier while my … Read more
Skype thinks the road to mobile VoIP is three to four years out according to a DSL/Broadband Reports story. With companies like client Truphone already showing how easy it can work on Nokia N and E Series devices, I think the non-carrier cooperative model is going to happen sooner. I also see the UMA play … Read more
Autonet has taken an idea a long time business colleague and I suggested to a now defunct mobile data company back in 2001. The idea was to take mobile data, turn it into Bluetooth and WiFi so any device could access it, all in one box. The idea is very plausible and for low bitrate … Read more
Autonet has taken an idea a long time business colleague and I suggested to a now defunct mobile data company back in 2001. The idea was to take mobile data, turn it into Bluetooth and WiFi so any device could access it, all in one box. The idea is very plausible and for low bitrate … Read more
