Andy Abramson Pal Bob Emmerson covers the European Telecom scene from his Amsterdam location. I’ve known Bob for a few year and always have found his perspective insightful, fresh and worth a read. At VON he let me know about a new newsletter he’s started to publish, called EuroInnovations. Looking at the first edition, this will be … Read more
Last week with VON, this news from scrappy VoIP alternative, client PhoneGnome’s latest news shows that David and crew are not just sitting idle. Instead they have taken many of the best features people need and made them both free and easy to use. The focus of PhoneGnome Mobile Web is on support for as … Read more
Everyone I know is rooting for Pat Phelan’s Roam4Free/maxRoam venture to succeed. But it also looks like there is competition looming from United Mobile. The price being quoted by United in their release seems to be at par or slightly lower. Since the rates change so much in this arena it will be hard to … Read more
Fonality, which was missing from VON last week despite Chris Lyman’s boasting to me at Internet Telephony how they would be back in force with their squad at the Boston event, made an acquisition that makes them even more vertical. The acquired Sugar CRM. This is a logical move given the number of call centers … Read more
CIO Magazine has a very lengthy article on the subject of Video Conferencing, Telepresence and distant meetings enabled by video.
Jim Courtney has an extensive review of the new version of the Skype enhanced Yugma which works with more than just Skype. Between this and Unyte for Skype, it sure looks like Skype is becoming the collaborator’s platform for ease of use and low cost compared to WebEx. WebEx needs to begin to look outside … Read more
Jim Courtney has an extensive review of the new version of the Skype enhanced Yugma which works with more than just Skype. Between this and Unyte for Skype, it sure looks like Skype is becoming the collaborator’s platform for ease of use and low cost compared to WebEx. WebEx needs to begin to look outside … Read more
London based Uber Analyst (I rank him alongside pal Martin Geddes as bringing sense to all the hype) Dean Bubley has two posts this week (well actually many more) that are home runs in my book. 1) His post of the Comcast packet sniffing soon to be fiasco. I say “soon to be” because you … Read more
Sprint wants you to use WiMax or EVDO, but they don’t care about WiFi. In what is a great move for Boingo, the L.A. based company has acquired eight more airports, giving them the exclusive wireless rights. Since we all know territory establishes control, and there are how many million of 802.11b/g ready PC’s this … Read more
Sprint wants you to use WiMax or EVDO, but they don’t care about WiFi. In what is a great move for Boingo, the L.A. based company has acquired eight more airports, giving them the exclusive wireless rights. Since we all know territory establishes control, and there are how many million of 802.11b/g ready PC’s this … Read more
