Andy Abramson TechDirt is pointing to Jeff Pulver about disaster relief voice mail networks being built out should another Katrina strike. What’s amazing to me, is as Jeff points out, that the telcos and the cable MSOs are opposed to the idea of making sure no phone goes unanswered by giving victims a free virtual voicemail number. … Read more
Glenn Fleishman points to a PC World report on Google’s WiFi network in Mountain View. \ My new Nokia 770 Tablet is perfect in this public environment of what I call for casual qwik look up and fast hits on the web. With the addition of Gizmo, and eventually a functional GTalk things become very … Read more
I had a chance to visit with EarthLink’s VP Steve Howe last week and check out the one month blitz San Francisco retail location. Playing with EarthLink’s Line Powered VOIP and going through their web portal conjured up feelings of AOL Total Talk and AT&T’s CallVantage but with a more true to SIP based calling … Read more
I had a chance to visit with EarthLink’s VP Steve Howe last week and check out the one month blitz San Francisco retail location.Playing with EarthLink’s Line Powered VOIP and going through their web portal conjured up feelings of AOL Total Talk and AT&T’s CallVantage but with a more true to SIP based calling service, … Read more
I consider David Beckemeyer, not only a friend, client, but truly a genius at making technology approachable for the common man. As background, it was Beckemeyer and his crew that made Earthlink the first national Internet Service Provider that made it easy for people, not geeks, to get on the Internet. AOL of course made … Read more
Let me draw your attention please to the AT&T exhibit at the New York World’s Fair..Oh…That was 42 years ago but now, finally, video telephony is having its day as yes its day is here due to broadband, better cameras and faster computers at lower prices. I couldn’t be more pleased to see how the … Read more
Let me draw your attention please to the AT&T exhibit at the New York World’s Fair..Oh…That was 42 years ago but now, finally, video telephony is having its day as yes its day is here due to broadband, better cameras and faster computers at lower prices. I couldn’t be more pleased to see how the … Read more
Without question, we all know the telcos of the last century are a dying bread. Not so much because of mergers, but because they are asleep at the switch and while they know the cable guys are out there, they continue to be in denial of what the cable industry has done and will do … Read more
Presence, VoIP, IM are all interrelated. Mathew Ingram shares his take with us on the MSN & Yahoo hook up. When you add in the Yahoo Plug In effort, but realize that VoIP plug ins right now are a no-go, no-no (I say for now), one has to question how a companies trying to productize … Read more
Last weekend I purchased two new Sony VGN-UX180Ps, one for me, and one for Helene as an early birthday present for her. Why? I knew after she saw mine she would want one of her very own and likely so will you. Forget how it’s so tiny, under two pounds. What it does so well … Read more
