The Puritan
My favorite mixed drink at Hawksmoor in London.
MaxRoam Invades Hong Kong-Establishes BuzzRoam
MaxRoam’s Pat Phelan let me in on some news tonight. Global Roaming Solutions Ltd (Hong Kong) and Cubic Telecom (Ireland) are announcing a new mobile roaming SIM card that will save consumers money over their usual mobile bills. Dubbed Buzzroam, this becomes is the first GSM SIM card available in Asia which provides access to … Read more
ooVoo Taking on All Comers
When Peter Csathy was at the helm of SightSpeed the company had vision and direction that included small business. Now under the Logitech leadership the company is moving mostly in the consumer direction. Over in NYC, ooVoo is rapidly growing and moving in the direction that SightSpeed was headed until it was acquired. In reading … Read more
When Local Isn’t Local
It seems the way Vonage presents their 800 number traffic makes local resident calls to 800 numbers look like their out of market. Since the receiving party pays, faux-pas like this are bound to happen. The radio station uses the ANI (Automatic Number Identification) as a way to verify the caller’s name and address. It … Read more
Nokia N72 Coming to the USA
I’m a rabid user of client Nokia’s E71 so you can bet I’m just chomping at the bit at the next generation E72 which now is with the FCC.
Highway Robbery in NY State – E911 Tax Dollars Not @ Work
New York legislators are going to get a good old country whippen, if they’re not carful. Talk about bait and switch. Wow. Every month New Yawkers shell out .70 cents on their cell phone bill (and that’s going up to $1.20 soon) per mobile number to support 911 services, so you would think the money … Read more
Comcast Application is About Convenience, Convergence and Ambush Marketing
Right now Comcast isn’t offering a mobile phone service, but they will. And what way better to market to take away the customer from their biggest competitor, AT&T, than with an easy to use, and well thought out iPhone application. What i find so funny here is that Comcast has this app out and running … Read more
Nimbuzz on The Mac, New VoxOx Now Out
Tom Keating picked up on the recent Nimbuzz Mac client announcement which I missed last week. I suspect that we’ll see a lot more in the area of softphones, especially on the Mac. To date most softphones have been designed for PCs and then ported. In the next few months we’ll likely see some native … Read more
Google Rings Back Advertising on Mobile Phones
A patent from Google that was just announced promise to bring commercials to you on your mobile phone. Unwired View has the details. This patent is going to make life very interesting for all the players in the mobile eco-system. It gives Google, in a word, LEVERAGE. Already they have the sales engine in place. … Read more
Fring on IPhone Now Has Background Notifications Too
I learned today that the latest version of Fring is now offering background notifications, ala what client Truphone has had running since the launch of Truphone 3.0. Fring, Nimbuzz and Truphone are all offering a very complete multi-network and play in the Skype zone very well.