Ever since Barons left the Del Mar Highlands locals in San Diego's North County have been always limited in where they can store wine offsite. While pal Art Kinberg has had his Vintage Storage location in Carlsbad for ten years and pal Gary Parker has rented lockers at Wine Sellar and Brasserie for over 20 … Read more
Image via Wikipedia Last night I dropped by my local watering hole, that just happens to be one, if not the best restaurants in San Diego's North County area. Chef pal Jeffrey Strauss for many years has set the high water mark in the Del Mar, Solana Beach area and is widely regarded as the … Read more
IT Expo moves their fall show to Austin starting September 13 and for me the cloud is where it will be. Cloud Comm, one of the many (maybe too many) co-located conferences at the fall TMCnet shindig is now in its 4th event and for the vetrans like me this event was always the one … Read more
Image by LA Wad via Flickr It seems in Germany some of the ICE trains also have WiFi too. Just like the Acela's on the east coast here in the USA and a few of the Pacific Surfliner trains that run along the California coast between San Diego and Santa Barbara. Having used these in the … Read more
Image by lazytom via Flickr It seems in Germany some of the ICE trains also have WiFi too. Just like the Acela's on the east coast here in the USA and a few of the Pacific Surfliner trains that run along the California coast between San Diego and Santa Barbara. Having used these in the … Read more
One of the biggest issues I've seen over the years with voice services is codec mismatches. Not only do they impact how things sound, often times with conference calls they just make the calls sound odd and magnified by the effects of landline, VoIP lines and mobile networks not all speaking the same way to … Read more
Juniper Research is reporting that mobile video calling is expected to grow through 2016 as services like Apple's FaceTime drive interest and demand. The key point here is the need for standardization of mVideo and that is clearly NOT Skype or FaceTime. The one point missed is the need for optimization regardless of whether the … Read more
Skype is buying GroupMe for a reported $85 million dollars. While a lot of conjecture exists around the why, I think that the former Startup Camp participant's value was in the fact that they really do handle SMS for groups and with Skype heading into a small group/small business mine field where the mobile handset becomes … Read more
Over the past few months I've been privately sharing my thoughts on how the wireless landscape changes with the looming AT&T/T-Mobile merger coming upon us. With the news today about the cable guys and Sprint working to take over Clearwire (a part of the scenario I've already been talking about) I figured it's time to … Read more
Was it legal for BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) to turn off mobile network coverage in stations to prevent civil disturbances? Today, a few days after all the turmoil the perspective in the news is mixed. Some say the backlash is growing, while others question BART's right to simply turn the power off to the … Read more
