Andy Abramson As someone who has been using Boingo's VPN service on my iPhone and iPad, I love how elegantly it works, and what it does to protect sensistive transmissions in places where one never knows who may be snooping, so when I saw the news in Engadget about Boingo adding their VPN feature to Mac and … Read more
Image via CrunchBase Are you seeing strangeness since Skype updated it's client to 6.0 on the Mac OS? Are you seeing messages appear out of order time wise? Are you finding messages are going through from iPad but showing as pending? Are your calls via Skype Out not presenting your Skype In Number or designated … Read more
Today, I’m in the Alentejo wine region of Portugal, on a business related project that I have started in addition to what my agency is already involved in. One of the things I have been enjoying, not only on this trip, but on all trips to Portugal is how efficient and effective their network infrastructure … Read more
English: T-Mobile logo (Photo credit: Wikipedia) The MetroPCS acquisition by T-Mobile in the USA is going to be about more than just spectrum and customers. It's about technology. While AT&T and Verizon diddle about trying to keep the next guy down, T-Mobile is about to leapfrog and be the USA's equivilant to Three in the … Read more
(Photo credit: Wikipedia) Hurricane Sandy proved something. Our infrastructure for communications isn't hurricane proof. As the New York Times reports on what the FCC has determeined, it seems the northeastern United States became in spots a country back in the sixties, where the only thing that seemed to work was a wired landline and one … Read more
8×8 #latergram (Photo credit: qthrul) I was really impressed with what one of my agency's client's did when it came to communicating with their customer base surround Hurricane Sandy. Cloud communications leader, 8×8 sent out an email pointing to a web page that had a Disaster Planning document, all geared around the concept of maintaining communications … Read more
freedompop (Photo credit: sam_churchill) Data MVNO FreedomPop, the carrier that rides on top of Clearwire's mobile WiMax network has released their $99 sleeve that works the iPod touch 4th Generation. Basically, the sleeve lets you turn the iPod touch into an iPhone, so calls can be made over the FreedomPop network using softphones like CounterPath's … Read more
Vodafone Logo (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Yoigo (Photo credit: Wikipedia) I've been coming to Spain for the last half dozen or so years, and have long been a fan of Yoigo, the Telia – Sonera backed mobile operator, who is fourth behind Movistar, Orange and Vodafone, and feels heat from upstart MVNO MasMovil. Given … Read more
TokBox was acquired by Telefonica Digital. TokBox, which offered a Flash based video platform, has been toiling around the social video space for half a dozen years. Without going into their history, the move is a very interesting one for Telefonica as it puts them at odds long term with Microsoft, which counts on the … Read more
I'm an Apple iPhone,iPad user, who also carries a BlackBerry and Android devices. Honestly, being outside of the USA for a month, and I'm going through directional withdrawl, having become addicetd to Google Maps on all my devices until Apple turned the tables on arch rival Google with their own maps. Everyone admits that Apple's … Read more
