Andy Abramson Alec has a follow-up to Katie’s story on Developer Programs. Alec is someone who knows about that world very well, for in his former life he launched Internet Explorer for you know who back in the 90s. Alec remains hopeful that programs will learn their lessons and work with and for developers, not simply take … Read more
The dot.com party craze is back, and it seems to be happening everywhere. While I like a good party, I’m also able to remember how the over indulgence in the “ya-da, ya-da, ya-da” econcomy hurt the industry. Too much of a good thing, like the famed rooftop Industry Standard parties in SF that were then … Read more
I found a very cool Intel hand out, in PDF form this morning about “How To Do VoIP” that is worth reading, especially if you are just getting around to considering making the jump.
Ken Belson in the New York Times compares the quality of the customer service found along the east coast by focusing largely on Verizon and Comcast who are at war for the consumer’s dollars. What’s interesting to me is that all the Bells have to do is what they used to do best. Keep the … Read more
A trusted source at Microsoft has been overheard saying that they completed a deal to buy 1200 End Caps in Best Buy, Circuit City, and Comp USA to sell the MSN live line of video cameras and Uniden Dual PSTN/MSN phone for the US market. My source says Microsoft wants to gut Skype at every … Read more
Skype obviously has not fooled the Intelligence community in Israel.
Katie at GigaOm breaks a story that has been bubbling since before the Las Vegas Skype DevCon I attended earlier in the summer. Having spoken to developers along the way he’s dead on the mark as some have talked about delays in getting answers to basic questions and a non–responsive approach to hard issues regarding … Read more
Om points to three more cities catching the muni wifi boom. I’m really hoping my town, Solana Beach and neighoring Del Mar moves their plans along soon.
You can’t be the arrogant, all powerful, do it our way type of company. I learned that lesson working at the Upper Deck Company 15 years ago. Now it seems that same type of arrogance is catching up with Qualcomm.
Just after a long battle that the telcos gave their customers a gift in the elimination of a federal taxt that the carriers had lobbied hard to get the USA to drop, and found a way to keep the money. This is clearly a case of “bad timing.” Had they waited a few months then … Read more
