I am taking the position that ripping off content is a bad thing, and Google led the pack by initially permitting all kinds of content into YouTube until such time as they could understand the metrics, and apply a revenue model based on advertising performance. Today GigaOm and NewTeeVee’s Liz Gaines story jumped to BusinessWeek … Read more
Esme Vos has a post earlier this week about what I am calling the 3G Choke Point on Muni Wireless. As a PolyNetwork carrier user I’ve seen what the greed of AT&T, and the lagging T-Mobile has done here in the USA with 3G data, and how the very conservative, but far more better managed … Read more
While I’m not a developer I can’t help but sing the praises of the annual ClueCon conference, held each year in Chicago. I was there last year and had a blast, but alas this year I can’t be there as I have a birthday coming up and will be in France for this one as … Read more
Media 5, a Quebec based company, is planning on releasing a SIP based client for the Apple iPhone via the App store in July. I was tipped off to this via About.com’s Nadeem Unuth.
Alec Saunders has a very good analysis on why free conferencing call service Foonz has bitten the dust. Long time readers (and listeners of KenRadio’s World Technology Roundup) will know well my views on FREE. It simply doesn’t work. We’ve all heard the expression “there’s no such thing as a free lunch.” Well in the … Read more
Given how much anti-VoIP, no calling from the skies GoGo has made to date to support American Airlines and other no-call policies I guess some may be surprised about the upcoming Oprah call via Skype. I’m not. Aircell which is the company behind GoGo promotes the VoIP capabilities to their private jet/non-commerical customers all the … Read more
Never to be accused of standing still in any type of economy, networking giant Cisco is “getting” smaller. After years of struggling with what their mobile strategy will be, the company is figuring out how to take some of its core assets like WebEx and others and migrate them from the desktop to the mobile … Read more
The just announced survey results regarding HD Voice, the subject of Jeff Pulver’s conference this week, that was conducted by client GIPS, shows a market that is ripe for the technology. No surprise but HiDef conference calling figured high on the list, but so did the use in call centers, as part of where respondents … Read more
Jeff Pulver is back into the VoIP game, sort of. He’s hosting a conference this week in New York City which I wish I was attending, but client commitments and another event here on the west coast this week are keeping me “closer to home.” The HD Voice Summit promises to delve into the aspects … Read more
VNUNet is reporting that the eagerly awaited Nokia N97 will be shipping in June. The device has WiFi, a VoIP stack, SIP embedded and lots of goodies. It’s lightweight and will be the first Nokia device to seamlessly integrate with the Ovi store, Nokia’s app store. Nokia, which is a client of my agency, has … Read more
