Runway Girl, a rather respected travel blogger who publishes some really good stuff about the business of travel posted recently about GoGo and T-Mobile. Two brands who love to tease the media and generate hype about what they offer. Her coverage of trying out the enhanced 2KU band in flight satellite Wi-Fi being used on … Read more
In a move that I would have thought would have come from any carrier but AT&T (T-Mobile comes first to mind) , the mobile operator and Amazon have teamed up to make it possible to send a text message to any one of ten of your contacts using the Echo voice controlled device. My take … Read more
Grind TV has a nice summary about the Roam Co-working and co-living operation that currently have three properties up and running in Madrid, Miami and Bali. The company, which is promising more locations in the near future, has raised over $3 million dollars to fuel property acquisition and growth around the globe. Far more than … Read more
Broadsoft, in an announcement today, that's a pre-cursor to their annual "Connections Conference," highlighted the fact that they now have 41 percent of the Unified Communications market running over their cloud platform, trumpeting the fact that this number, which totals 15 million lines, represents more customers than Cisco or RingCentral have. This means, if one … Read more
A few years ago the New York Times published a story about Voicemail usage being on the decline. If the wrote that same story today, my guess is that they would find that on the decline was an understatement. It's more than likely in free fall. Basically, most of the people I know text before … Read more
Business Travel New is reporting that IAG, the group that owns and operates British Air, Aer Lingus, Iberia and Vueling will start to roll out Wi-Fi on Airbus 321s and 320 starting in 2017. My travel the last few years in Europe has been rather frequent, and I've always been amazed at the lack of … Read more
Broadsoft announced the acquisition of VoIP Logic yesterday. When I looked over the web site of VoIP Logic all I could read from it is they provide a white label solution to others who want to be carriers. If that's the case, one of two directions are possible following the acquisition. A) Broadsoft is going … Read more
Dialpad had Altimeter Group's Brian Solis author a report on the "Anytime Worker" who is "working anywhere" they can these days. With coworking spots the rage all over the world, and more remote working going on all the time, the report is rather timely. Sign up here to get your copy…and read away…Anywhere you want … Read more
Note: Nielsen has now backed up on their numbers. That still does not change things in my view about the future of cable networks like ESPN. ESPN's numbers are down. Again. This doesn't bode well for the sports leagues as more and more cable subscribers become cord-cutters. Add in the growing number of never corders … Read more
After over 15 years, and ten years since it's formal launch on Nokia N series phones, founder James Tagg has left Truphone reports Telecompaper. The departure, long in the planning, will allow the inventive founder to focus on new technologies. Tagg, who also invented the video touchscreen, came up with the idea of Truphone due … Read more
