Last night around 7 PM or so I caught a tweet that made me check my Blackberry. Yes indeed, there must be an outage. Then another tweet came in. Then another, and another. All the while RIM was silent. This is not the first time that Research In Motion was off the air and I … Read more

The great thing about the Internet is that you can get connected to just about everyone these days. Well this afternoon, my old friend Nick called me via his new SIP connection. It seems the new 100 meg fiber line to his winter abode has finally been connected, giving him even faster access. That means … Read more

Congressman Rick Boucher of Virginia is my kind of elected official. He wants us all to have 50 megs down and 20 megs up of broadband. And as the post on DSL Reports mentions, with Docsis 3.0 coming to a cable box near you rather soon, those speeds are more than attainable. In my Sacramento … Read more

I recall once having a cigar with the founder of Free at Atelier Berger, on Rue Berger in Paris one rainy night back in 2006. As a disruptive force in telecom they have clearly been that in France. Now they have 3G spectrum, which can’t be good news for Orange and SFR.

Om has a meme on why O2/Telefonica wants to buy Jajah. The answer is Voype.

Give Charlie Stross a read on his well authored post on his blog, Charlie’s Diary. My take is simply this. If you have GoogleVoice in calling party pays environment, you can eliminate a large monthly base mobile bill for unlimited minutes, because every call is received back to you after being triggered by the data … Read more

I woke up this morning to what will be big news for anyone who knows Pat Phelan. Love, hate him, be his friend, or his competitor, but this news can only be viewed as a very self-serving decision by Pat. As part of an overall slimming down, to focus more on what’s important to him, … Read more