Pal Dean Bubley is one of the more pragmatic analysts out there in the wireless world and today he posts his predictions, winners and losers for 2012. If you look at it and read through it you'll find a tone of frustration, dismay and depression, none his own, but of the industry. With so much "advancement" … Read more
Image via Wikipedia Well, one of the hurdles for my interest (or lack of) for flying down under has been eliminated. Quantas has added Internet to their Airbus 380 service between Sydney, Melbourne and Los Angeles initially, then rolling it out more widely. Quantas joins Emirites and Lufthansa which are both also deploying technology that … Read more
Cellular companies that are taking their good old time to implement WiFi offload of traffic, including calls, may have to worry, especially those with heavy penetration levels in NYC as Skype is beating them to the punch when it comes to Wi-Fi calling. Today's news from FIerce and others of a deal with Towerstream, and … Read more
The PC World story on the Best Airports for Tech Travelers reveals a few things: 1. The hub airports are provided the best experince. This is logical as those airports have the most traffic which means they have the highest revenues from passenger facilities charges. That gives those airports the funding levels to provide for … Read more
Need to send a special holiday greeting? Skype may have the answer with their "Say it With Skype" app. I have to have a sense of deja vu as this is the kind of thing we used to do with SightSpeed which had record a video message long before Skype even had video. But what … Read more
Yesterday Skype announced an upgrade of their Android client (2.6). The three main features added were: The new features include most of all extended battery life, on top of file sending of photos and videos. These features likely come from some of the technology acquired when they picked off QIK just before the sale to … Read more
The November 30th report from the Federal Trade Commission in the USA shows that the Do Not Call Registry registration and complaints continue to rise, despite enforcement. Over the past month I've been noticing an increase in the number of calls from UNKNOWN, and have had friends tell me more and more about voice phishing … Read more
Over the last few months I've been watching as the WiFi speeds in the local Starbucks keep going from slow to slower. Today with one other person connected, the speeds were as slow as I have seen in my area in a very, very long time. As someone who has been using the Starbucks Hotspots … Read more
Let's face it, some of us are gadget geeks. Some may call us other less flattering names, but in the end we all like to play with the latest and not always greatest devices, but when it comes to laying our cash on the line, some of us, do find a way to make use … Read more
Network World is reporting that the wireline customer base in the USA is shrinking while VoIP service is increasing, but there view is that VoIP has peaked and that cord cutting, with more and more customers moving to wireless is the trend. Not much new in that thinking except for one key factor. E911. Until … Read more
