New York legislators are going to get a good old country whippen, if they’re not carful. Talk about bait and switch. Wow. Every month New Yawkers shell out .70 cents on their cell phone bill (and that’s going up to $1.20 soon) per mobile number to support 911 services, so you would think the money … Read more
I was on the phone this week with the Big Boss Man at TMC, pal Rich Tehrani going over a few things when I realized we’re about six weeks away from IT Expo in Los Angeles in September. With it the IP Communications industry has the start of another eight week period of pretty much … Read more
I have just spent the better part of ninety minutes contacting a series of financial institutions to notify them that I’ll be out of the country for the next week on business. This is an exercise that I do each and every trip and it’s getting OLD. Wells Fargo takes the cake for the most … Read more
I have just spent the better part of ninety minutes contacting a series of financial institutions to notify them that I’ll be out of the country for the next week on business. This is an exercise that I do each and every trip and it’s getting OLD. Wells Fargo takes the cake for the most … Read more
A quick note about the Novatel MiFi devices, both the CDMA version that works on Verizon and the GSM/HSPA version that works here in the USA on AT&T and on any GSM operator’s network around the globe. 1. Verizon’s network smokes the current edition of AT&T Mobile Broadband in the Bay Area for real time … Read more
If you subscribe to the Wall Street Journal, either hard copy or online, today’s edition has Walt Mossberg’s review of the new Apple iPhone and OS 3.0. Apple always provides Walt an advance version of the phone, and his review tends to help set the stage for many things. Of what he didn’t like on … Read more
Last week TwitrCon was in SF was viewed as a hit, more because of the people in the room, than what was necessarily said on stage. Upcoming in this month is Jeff Pulver’s 140 Conference is happening on June 16 & 17 in New York City and it’s lining up to be something special. The … Read more
The potential merger announced last last night Bharti Airtel of India and the MTN Group of South Africa may have shocked some folks, but not me. I’m a big believer that just like with cable television and telephony here in the USA we’re going to be seeing more and more consolidation in the mobile world. … Read more
One of the problems with most of the consumer satellite broadband offerings has been the issue of latency. Well it sounds like Europe and the UK will be the first to experience a new form of Satellite broadband that’s good enough for streaming media and VoIP. The service called Tooway is due to roll out … Read more
A very imaginative service has been developed called ArrivedOK and is in beta in many parts of the world, except the USA. As a global nomad this kind of service is ideal for me, especially with my family and colleagues. I regularly text the word “landed” when I touch down using either SMS or the … Read more
