What Is Mobile Video?

A lot is being written about what is being called Mobile Video and we have two different concepts of what Mobile Video is now making the rounds in the press and blogosphere. Late last week, AT&T announced their version of Mobile Video which will let users see one another on their mobile handsets and engage … Read more

Tandberg and HP Make Video Interoperable

HP and Tandberg, two giants in the enterprise video conference space are working on making their video platforms interoperable. This is very important as Balkanized technologies won’t survive. What made the telephone work was that all phones work with other phones. The same has to happen with video.

Talqer Integrates With Skype

Upstart Talqer has added Skype as one of the voice IM clients that you can make cheap calls from. Previously they announced this with GoogleTalk. The value of this seems to be more talk for less bread internationally while the USA market seem to be best served by the recent Skype price promotion. This is … Read more

Sorry I’ve Been Under The Weather

I’ve been fighting a flu bug and a sinus cold for the past seven days and have had hardly any real energy to write or even think beyond the most fragmented levels. That’s one of the reasons for the erratic nature of my posts and the poor word construction of those I have been able … Read more

AT&T’s Neutered DSL

They call it “Naked DSL” because you can get it without voice service. In theory this means you could BYOV (Bring Your Own Voice) but the recently announced “Naked DSL” from AT&T, made possible as one of their concessions to the FCC so the Bell South merger could go through, really isn’t just naked. It … Read more

Mr. Blog: Bloom Off the Rose At Skype

David Beckemeyer may be one of the few bloggers who can write this type of post and has the chops to back it up. He co-founded Earthlink, bringing what is really the Internet to more people than anyone with the way he developed the EarthLink on ramp technology and the discs. Many think AOL was, … Read more