I have for years loved spending time in Lyon. The city is walkable. Has a great transit system and without question some of the best dining of any major city in the world. In many ways as much as I enjoy Paris, I find Lyon much more to my liking as the old school meets … Read more
Given the meteoric rise of Twilio stock and all the noise they have been making I was looking forward to groundbreaking news out of their Signal conference in San Francisco this week. I didn't hear it or see it. Instead what I saw was largely the ongoing management of the message, via the media, in … Read more
Years back I had the ability to memorize just about anyone's phone number. Part of the skill was pure memory tricks. Associating the person to an area code reduced the need to memorize 10 digits. Then there was repetition. The more you called someone, the easier it was to remember their number. Next was we … Read more
So late yesterday the news out of Twilio's Signal conference broke that Twilio was acquiring SendGrid. Most of the coverage is straight out of the news release, with very little critical analysis. From my perspective $2 billion for SendGrid, a company with a perceived market value of $1.4 billion is a nice premium, and a … Read more
I just read the NY Time account of what is happening in Florida’s Panhandle and just have to question what’s being done. We live in an era of all types of communications being available. Why not retask some Internet capable satellites, drop in some Satellite tranceivers, flood the region with bandwidth and start to reestablish … Read more
Over all the years I've visited my dear friend Sylvain Fadat of Domaine d'Aupilhac, and his family, I've enjoyed a few events. In no particular order there has been his 25 years of Aupilhac back in 2014 which even Kermit Lynch attended. There was also the party in a year or two earlier that we … Read more
Here at my apartment building I have a Friday night dinner group who cook together, share what the week was like and now get to enjoy wines that I pull out of what seems to be a bottomless cellar. This past Friday I pulled some really interesting reds, all which have Syrah as part or … Read more
Microsoft is making lots of moves these days. Their efforts in collaboration are going to challenge the usual suspects, but the biggest target is Cisco. This FastCompany article is worthy of a read, as it seriously explains Microsoft's approach with video conferencing. A lot of what Microsoft is doing now still doesn't justify the changes … Read more
I have Google Fi on a Pixel and my bill this month will be roughly $25.00. That's for unlimited voice and text, and a PAYG data plan. Since the Fi spends so much time on WiFi, and so little on 4G/LTE, the data that is being consumed is almost nothing so I pay almost nothing. … Read more
Longtime VoIPWatcher and close friend James Body and I were chatting this morning and he alerted me to an overlooked piece of news surrounding his former employer, and my former client, Truphone. The news surrounds Truphone being one of the chosen eSIM providers on the new iPhone. This is both massive news for the UK … Read more
