First thing I did on Saturday after an amazing overnight flight from LAX to London’s Heathrow airport and checking into the Heathrow Sofitel, the property that is on my short list of great airport hotels, just behind Munich’s Kempenski, was find a nano data only SIM for my iPad Mini. That led too a short … Read more
A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to sit down with the founders of Voxeet, a new audio conferencing service that just launched their iOS and Android apps after finishing on top in a competition sponsored by Bandwidth.com. Previously they had a Windows app and are promising a Mac client shortly. In an era where … Read more
Slap suits are silly. And the idea of a class action suit against GoGo and parent Aircell is silly. While I don't disagree that the pricing model is currently flawed, the reality of the case is there is competition for GoGo and airlines have the choice of which provider they choose to use, as Skift.com … Read more
SMS, the texting service found on mobile phones, which now has connectivity making its way into the landline and desktop world is rumored to be going away. Well, I think rumors of its decline are not being properly portrayed as mobile operator based SMS will decline due to one reason. Alternatives that offer more, but … Read more
I was thinking about adding a section to VoIPWatch called WebRTCWatch, so I was happy to see that the folks at TMC (Rich, Eric, Tom, Paula) have powered a new site called WebRTC World. It's a very nice compendium of news edited and compiled by Phil Edholm. With WebRTC taking a center stage this year … Read more
English: BlackBerry Bold 9000 connected to T-Mobile USA and a DD-WRT Wi-Fi access point. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) While the BlackBerry loyalist community eagerly awaits the release in late January of new RIM BlackBerries and the new OS 10, RIM has been updating to OS 7 with a key feature that those who still talk will … Read more
Cablevision rushes to install hanging wires (Photo credit: Anthony Quintano) I have friends who love Cablevision's Optimum Online who live the in the Metro New York City area and were not Fios friendly or simply didn't want to cut their copper connection to Verizon's landline network. Well for them, access to the Internet is going … Read more
(Photo credit: Wikipedia) Have you noticed at which the number of apps being updated in the Apple App Store has increased lately? Between new apps being launched along with updates and bug fixes for iOS 6 as well as to work more and better with the iPad Mini, the volume of updates since Thanksgiving has … Read more
Courtyard Logo (Photo credit: Wikipedia) I was a few stays away from getting back my gold status with Marriott so over the past month I put some seven nights in at the Courtyard by Marriott in Seattle, just off of Pioneer Square. It's clean, convenient and had great broadband when I stayed there when my … Read more
There weren’t many left, but those that were worked really well. I’m referring to the T-Mobile Hotspots that once dotted the USA inside hotels, Starbucks coffee shops and airline clubs. The speeds were awesome and other than some initial early day access issues, connectivity was a snap to get on the network. In many cases, … Read more
