Andy Abramson About a year has gone by, or so it seems, that eBay purchased Skype so this is not really a surprise to hear that a veteran eBay executive with 1.0 telco experience has taken the lead at running the company. Congrats to Henry…but as Om points out, it’s a Nightmare. I expect that there is … Read more
It’s no surprise that hotspot use is growing, especially with more and more laptops having WiFi cards built in, and more devices like PDA’s having it also. The real striking and very important statistic though is how the use of WiFi and broadband at hotels is growing. As a frequent traveler at many hotels I’m … Read more
Nokia has turned out a new piece of software that turns your PC into an extension of your mobile phone. This goes way beyond a simple softphone as the software seems to mimic your SIM card to allow calls to be made from your computer and received by it as if it was a mobile … Read more
According to VNU, Skype adoption is only at four percent in the UK, but the acceptance is expected to climb, especially as younger, more PC and Game centric teens grow up and want dual mode devices that lets them do more than what they can do on their current landlines and cellphones. I call this … Read more
Lifeblog automatically collects your images, videos, text and multimedia messages, sounds and blog posts into a single diary that you can easily browse, share, store, and search. Lifeblog is also available for PCs. Store more, browse more, share more of your life with Lifeblog PC. For more information, visit www.nokia.com/nseries/lifeblog. Fri 25/11/2006 11:38 Nokia Lifeblog … Read more
To be upfront, my agency represents iotum and GrandCentral and I have spent a lot of time figuring out how they are different, and they are. Not only are they different, they are so complimentary that it’s scary. Alec’s post and his comment about Sitofono and iotum are spot on, and requires some additional commentary … Read more
Ted Walingford raised a very good point about VON Enterprise and the lack of promotion it seems to be getting from Jeff Pulver. I’m not sure why this is is the case, but I do know that Jeff has taken a much more involved role in Spring VON and most of what I’m seeing and … Read more
It’s Sunday and football special teams will be trying to block the punts all day long, so it’s only apropos that news comes out today of yet another Skype blocking solution, this time out of Germany. It seems now, almost every week another application comes around. Candidly, I’m more concerned about hotels and WiFi networks … Read more
About two or three months back Michael “Golden Boy” Robertson, the king of disruption clued me in on some of the goings on with Nokia and Gizmo Project that goes beyond the Nokia Internet Tablet project. Specifically he let me know that the N80i would feature the mobile version of Gizmo. Ironically, that call came … Read more
Jeff Pulver’s roots are in Ham radio and he’s never shy to tell the world about his original communication passion. Of course, while Jeff was a Ham, I was a “Pirate” running super modified CB radios with linear amplification as a member of the SI “Strictly Illegal” club of world wide communicators.
