I was happy to read this story today about Vishing, a subject I have been pushing our nations banks to become more aware of. Late last year I contacted representative of American Express, Citibank, Wells Fargo and one other bank to ask what they were doing to prevent vishing and to educate their customer base … Read more
A lot of times applications come out for handsets that are in need of testing, but too often the testing is done in house and that leads to all kinds of issues. Two companies I’ve come across of late that offer an interesting virtual model are: Mob4Hire and Nexperience. Nexperience was recently profiled on TelecomTV.com … Read more
Time Magazine has put out a list of the ten biggest technology failures, including such one time hot companies as Gateway and Vonage on the list that also includes Windows Vista. I don’t see Vonage as a failure, rather that it wasn’t a financial success. You have to look at them as pioneers and trailblazers. … Read more
Vonage is the company that I first tried for VoIP. I left, largely because CallVantage simply sounded better. At the end of the day Vonage didn’t sound good enough to be business grade, but AT&T’s product was. Now with the pending mothballing of CallVantage Vonage remains as the mass market alternative that many people will … Read more
Yesterday the buzz in the video publishing business was triggered by Sorenson Media with their new publishing platform, called 360. The name 360 implies complete and full circle, and for the video professional who needs a reliable, stable and trusted platform Sorenson’s new offering is geared to deliver that, something that Streaming Media’s Jan Ozer … Read more
Travel satirist Joe Sharkey has penned a piece about Video Conferencing that ran in the New York Times. This type of coverage supports the theory that video conferencing is now at the mainstream level. Now, if Skype would only handle multi-party calls like SightSpeed, we’d have something really, really big.
Prophet Center, a blog about media and technology, caught my eye with this post about online video putting pressure on “Hollywood.” I think it will. The reason is the TMZ, or what it means. Thirty Mile Zone. That’s the territory that the unions which pretty much have a lot of the power in Hollywood from … Read more
The New York Times Practical Traveler today has a feature on the price of staying connected that focuses on hotel WiFi and its pricing and various consumer and industry expert reactions, but it only tells part of the story, as it focused mostly on pricing. There are four types of traveler using hotel broadband: 1) … Read more
The New York Times Practical Traveler today has a feature on the price of staying connected that focuses on hotel WiFi and its pricing and various consumer and industry expert reactions, but it only tells part of the story, as it focused mostly on pricing. There are four types of traveler using hotel broadband: 1) … Read more
Of late I’ve become consumed with the idea of video and the Internet. It’s a harking back of sorts to my early days along with Ken Rutkowski when we were working on a content company called Plus Media back in the 1.0 era. So now that broadband, even mobile broadband and yes, even in-flight broadband … Read more
