With the recent announcement by Skype to have an open SIP Gateway (well its in beta) the door is now wide open for a direct route of calls coming to your Google Voice number to be routed directly into the Skype SIP gateway and to ring your Skype ID. All Google Voice has to do … Read more
Randall Stross of the New York Times has an excellent analysis and shows some very good reporting around the SMS industry and to what lengths the carriers will go to preserve what they have. In many ways this makes me think of Twitter and the value it would bring to a mobile operator, much the … Read more
First we had “offshore banking,” the places the wealthy put their money. Then we had “offshore wagering,” the establishment of gaming operations in countries who were happy to have the business to improve their tax base so gamblers could place bets without oversight from the government and taxing authorities. Well now in the UK, if … Read more
Venture Beat pointed me to a new service called Qwitter. It lets you monitor your followers and see who quit. Neat. Very neat.
Twitter had some changes at the top this past week, and now that the economy is in the toilet, more and more times each day, people are going to be asking the painful question of “how are you going to make money?” Honestly, I started out as a non-fan, but I’m now seeing things in … Read more
Pal Tom Keating tipped me off to the news that Electronista broke about the MSI Wind Netbook being sold soon at Best Buy. Joanna Stern at Laptop Magazine has been a very big fan of the MSI Wind for sometime, so it’s on my hit list of NetBooks to acquire. I’m already very pleased with … Read more
Pal Tom Keating tipped me off to the news that Electronista broke about the MSI Wind Netbook being sold soon at Best Buy. Joanna Stern at Laptop Magazine has been a very big fan of the MSI Wind for sometime, so it’s on my hit list of NetBooks to acquire. I’m already very pleased with … Read more
A few years back, about the time I first got into blogging, circa 2003, I had a chat with a good friend at Business Wire where I forecasted the demise of them due to the use of RSS feeds in the blogosphere. The recent SEC decision, in my mind, shows that my I wasn’t far … Read more
If you haven’t seen the news lately, client Fonolo, started by pal Shai Berger, is on a roll. Originally called FonCloud, they changed their name last spring, and debuted at eComm, showcasing their deep dialing end to customer service frustration for consumers. At eComm everyone from eTel founder Surj Patel to organizer Lee Dryburgh told … Read more
For those of you who are mobile and just can’t stay in the office, I’ve posted my second in series of “Tools for Global Nomads” on my OTHER blog, called “Working Anywhere.” If you missed the first one, it can be found here. Why another blog some have asked? That’s simple. The nature of blogging … Read more
