Andy Abramson GigaOm has a guest columnist in Daniel Berninger, someone who has been around the telco wars in an IP era as long as anyone. Berninger brings the kind of insight I like to read as he’s right their with Dave Burstein and David Eisenberg at bringing understanding about the why things are the way they … Read more
Oliver Starr has joined Guidwire Group the new and emerging company watch and reporting group that Chris Shipley heads along with pal Mike Sigal. Last night I had dinner with Oliver and Jonathan Medved, CEO of Demo debuting company VRINGO.com. Oliver seemed very jazzed up about the opportunity he now has to provide more analysis … Read more
I have had my well documented share of issues with T-Mobile here in the USA that have been written here or described on KenRadio’s World Technology Roundup. And Martin Geddes seems to run neck and neck in the reporting of ineptitude from T-Mobile in the UK.
I missed the announcement about Packet8 raising consumer rates, which Ted Wallingford caught while I was at DEMO earlier this week. I don’t think it is any kind of surprise that 8×8 is moving in this direction. They want to target the more lucrative business market, which they’ll have to play major catch-up to go … Read more
Jonathan Greene has some first hand info on what FTTP will be costing…and it sure doesn’t sound cheap to me.
Bob Cox has a great post about how off target the mainstream media can be about the MBA (Media Bloggers Association) and how the mainstream media has interpreted actions to provide bloggers more benefits like education, legal and ethical advisory services, credentialing and so on. The MSM must be feeling some threat from bloggers because … Read more
The Purple Wonder himself, Mr. VON, has a very good post about innovation. But Jeff, please don’t think you are alone in this battle. Others of us like David Beckemeyer (PhoneGnome), Alec Saunders (iotum), Jeff Bonforte (Yahoo), Craig Walker (GrandCentral), Luca (Abbeynet), Michael Robertson (SIPPhone), Jim Tobin (Comcast), Jeff Black and John Todd (TalkPlus), Surj … Read more
My agency has been working the last few months with NextAlarm, an emerging company that makes it possible for home alarm systems that only worked over PSTN work with VOIP. Over the past few months they have been rolling out some new services. Just last week they were featured on the national radio show called … Read more
It’s not just the knowledge worker who needs to be working anywhere, it’s also for the performing artist. Last week at DEMO the presentation by eJammin brought down the house with their distance worker solution for musical collaboration. Candidly I thought it was the best demo of the event because it went beyond technology and … Read more
One of the companies at DEMO that really rang my bell was DeviceScape out of San Bruno, CA. While some are panning what they have to offer, by pointing out the shortlist of devices it runs on, I see nothing but good in what they are doing. In simple terms they make getting on a … Read more
