Two interesting conferences are coming up. One in Washington D.C. and the second in San Francisco. On Thursday November 15 in D.C. is the Voice Innovation Summit organized by longtime VoIP insider Dan Berninger. What I like about it is the cross section of traditional, regulatory and cutting edge new thinkers that Dan has assembled. … Read more
With Microsoft looking like they are killing off Windows Live Messenger by consolidating the functionality and back end engineering into Skype, one has to wonder if the interoperability that never really came of much between Yahoo Messenger and Windows Live Messenger (if it still worked) will still be in place. I doubt it. One of … Read more
On the subject of good deeds from telco related companies, it was nice to see Twilio, the developer focused startup backed by 500 Startups and others, offer to lend some companies a helping hand in light of the Hurricane Sandy natural disaster that is impacting many businesses along the eastern seaboard. What’s great is unlike … Read more
I have been following the company known as Iliiad the owners of the Free brand in France since I sat a few tables away from their founder at the now shuttered Atelier Berger (it has since reopened under new owners and new name A La Margauritte and is quite good as well. Free disrupted telecom first … Read more
Two stories in WirelessWeek on the subject of LTE that have been covered in a few places caught my eye and demanded amplification. The first is about Verizon's Rural Program and a rural mobile operator in Tennessee, Blugrass Cellular joining the Verizon LTE enablement program. This is very smart business for both parties as it quickly … Read more
Engadget reports that Skype is adding Pre-Paid as a way to top off, making them look more and more like a mobile operator. They're retailing Pre-Paid cards at a slew of technology and consumer shops across the UK, much like they are already doing in Mexico. What this means is those without credit cards, or … Read more
If you ever lost anything while traveling, you know how frustrating the whole process of filing a claim, and ever hoping you'll receive your lost property back. In an era where we travel with smartphones, tablets, laptops, headphones and USB drives, losing any of those can be emotionally catastrophic unless you work for Apple or … Read more
According to most recent surveys, passengers don't want in flight calling on airliners flying around the globe. That's interesting because for many years GTE (now a part of Verizon) had an in flight calling service where phones were one every row, and each first class seat had a phone. I was one of those people … Read more
I’m sitting where it should be sunny. And, it’s not. This afternoon will mean visiting with good friends from Finland, who I know from Los Angeles, who live here as my friend is the Deputy Counsel General, and his wife an international business attorney. I’m in a hotel which is by all means a resort, … Read more
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
