On Friday I landed in Vienna, enroute to a weekend in the Austrian wine region near Krems in the town of Langelois. As I left Vienna I stopped in the T-Mobile company store that is on the ground floor of the Austrian HQ just a few minutes from the Autobahn I would be taking as … Read more
In the past I’ve written about the idea of a Mobile PBX and how it could come to be. Well it seems I’m not alone in that arena as Network World has an interesting “think piece” on the subject. With 4G via WiMax and LTE the “mobile PBX” becomes more and more a reality, as … Read more
Back in 1984 Apple rebelled with the famed commercial produced by Venice, CA based Chiat-Day. The commercial is a classic and viewed as a model of a great tv spot that aired just once. It was the commercial that introduced the Macintosh to the world. Now, 25 years later Apple is treading water at possibly … Read more
Give Vonage’s new leadership team credit. They are making changes. Now Vonage users can call more countries as part of their bundled calling plans and they will have Visual Voicemail, making them a “Me Too” in that department as others like PhoneFusion have had that for a very long time.
In a bold move, Southwest Airlines has promised to go fleet wide with the installation of Row44’s In-Flight WiFi service which competes with AirCell’s one year young GoGo service that is installed on the likes of Delta, American Airlines and fleet wide on Virgin America. The difference between the two competing services is based on … Read more
In a bold move, Southwest Airlines has promised to go fleet wide with the installation of Row44’s In-Flight WiFi service which competes with AirCell’s GoGo service that is installed on the likes of Delta, American Airlines and fleet wide on Virgin America. The difference between the two competing services is based on how the planes … Read more
It looks like VoIP is really starting to go mainstream and while Apple plays footsie with the regulators, Google is coming out full bore embracing VoIP on the Android. A quick read of the official Google blog says so. But other than SiPDroid and a Gizmo client attempt, nothing really is there yet that does … Read more
Opening up 3G to VoIP? It sure may happen. And, when it does, AT&T’s network will see even more usage. While today’s network is being stretched, pulled and splintered in so many directions, tomorrow’s network from AT&T, all ONE network for everything from voice, to video and to of course data will be far more … Read more
I’m posting is a Public Service Announcement but also since Truphone is my agency’s client we felt the important thing to do is get the right information out as far and wide as possible. This afternoon this afternoon Truphone sent an emailout to its customers explaining that Truphone knows of a bug issue with the … Read more
A very interesting opinion piece in today’s Wall Street Journal is entitled why AT&T Killed Google Voice, and it was written, not by a reporter but by a hedge fund manager. I happen to agree with the majority of it, especially the points he makes in italics with my comments in CAPS: • End phone … Read more
