The Comunicano Daily for Tuesday November 18, 2014

    The Comunicano Daily       Today starts WebRTC World in San Jose, CA. Already Cisco has made news at their own event a few hundred miles south in Los Angeles with a new service called Project Squared (see a few stories down)….Nokia is back and at the Slush Conference in Helsinki with an Android based tablet … Read more

The Comunicano Daily for Monday November 17, 2014

    The Comunicano Daily       You can always tell when the news cycle is starting to slow down. It's when dirt, rumors and soft news starts to take hold. That's what this morning feels like as I scanned looking for stories. The holiday period is here and the next few weeks will … Read more

How Design Influences Travel Experience

The web site Future Travel Experience gives us a good look at what may be possible for our air travel, from check in to exiting the airport, exposing what we will be seeing and feeling. Much of this "experience" derives from design, which is all about setting up the "user experience" that we desire. Unfortunately, often … Read more

The Comunicano Daily for Friday November 14, 2014

        The Comunicano Daily       It's always nice to wake up to see Comunicano clients in the news. Today, GigaOm's David Meyer captured the news about Temasys launching the All AWS (Amazon Web Services) based Skylink for WebRTC developers. In essence, if someone is building services on Amazon's Web Services … Read more

The Comunicano Daily for Thursday November 13, 2014

    The Comunicano Daily       After a hiatus, The Comunicano Daily is back. Today, we'll lead off with what is a stellar review by ZDNET's Matt Miller about client Sonim's new XP7 AndroidSmartphone.  Back in 2005 when Comunicano launched the Nokia Blogger Relations Program Matt was one of the first "pro" bloggers we contacted because … Read more

Brands Want You To Buy Your Loyalty

I'll be the first to admit that I've lost my love of brand loyalty programs. You know, the ones like American Airlines Advantage that pretty much kicked it all off. Well now, American and Southwest in the past two days have both offered to boost my status by my buying my loyalty level.  To me … Read more

Microsoft Brings Back Skype For Business-Sort Of

Extra-Exta read all about it, Skype For Business is coming back…well it is soft of. Basically, Microsoft has recognized that the Skype name has more credibility than Lync does so they're renaming Lync, Skype for Business. That's the crux of the story, that's untold in my view. Given that, this is as much a marketing … Read more

Wi-Fi-For Marriott It’s All Hacking For Profit. This Is How You Hack Back

Marriott wants your business. Directly. And to get it they're offering free Wi-Fi to lure you, like a fish. The catch? You have to book via their website, using the mobile app, the call center or the property directly. But, if you're a business traveler, who has a corporate travel agency working on your behalf, … Read more

Time To Dust Off Working Anywhere

Up until three years ago, I used to blog about the idea of Working Anywhere. About the same time I stopped, I started to travel even more than I did before, more than doubling may annual days on the road.  As a global nomad I learned a lot about how to work on the road, … Read more