Mobilze has LaunchPad. ITExpo has Startup Camp Communications. CTIA has the Showcase. Each of these events has new companies that are innovating and pushing the bounds of what was impossible a few years ago, and is now possible today. Who said innovation was dead? Who said there were no new ideas? All of these events … Read more
I’ve looked at the calendar and am just amazed at what’s happening in a seven day period on the west coast. Between GigaOm’s Mobilize on September 30th in San Francisco, IT Expo starting on Monday October 3rd in L.A., CTIA happening in San Francisco, starting on the 4th, and Wireless Health 2010 happening in San … Read more
Someone has the right idea in Italy with their prepaid data prices. Wireless Moves reports that for as little as nine Euros you can find data access on the go with mobile network operator, WIND. For 20 Euros you can get 10 GB of data in a month. When you do the conversions that roughly … Read more
Oovoo, Skype, SightSpeed and now Tandberg with the release of Movi 4.0 are all working to make multi-party video happen on the desktop. Tandberg, Lifesize and others are working to connect the enterprise with desktop HD systems. Then there are companies like IOMEET and Vidyo which is the cloud approach of hosted and managed video … Read more
Back in 2006 I helped build awareness around GrandCentral, now GoogleVoice. For me it was deja vu as I’d been a Webley/Comunikate user since almost when it started back in the late 90s, and had been using all kinds unified communications tools along the way. For me services like AT&T CallVantage, Vonage, PhoneGnome and just … Read more
Om’s post on T-Mobile not really embracing UMA and their move to make Wal-Mart an MVNO tells me a few things. 1. UMA is tied/was tied to the T-Mobile Hotspot initiative. Since they are pretty much out of that business other than in some airports and hotels, it’s not a priority. 2. Without UMA when … Read more
SalesForce.com is crossing the chasm with Chatter, a social networking application designed for the enterprise to work on consumer devices like iPhones, Blackberries and Androids. What’s important here is that the functionality and security aspects found in SalesForce are inside Chatter, while being designed to bring all that SalesForce can enable into a shareable and … Read more
If you’re a resident of the UK and you get your broadband from BT you may want to check out pal Dean Bubley’s post about the new BT iOS for Smartphones. Add that, download a Truphone client, and start making phone calls. You can of course do the same with Skype, Gizmo or Bria from … Read more
If you’re a resident of the UK and you get your broadband from BT you may want to check out pal Dean Bubley’s post about the new BT iOS for Smartphones. Add that, download a Truphone client, and start making phone calls. You can of course do the same with Skype, Gizmo or Bria from … Read more
As I sit at the local Del Mar Starbucks on a Labor Day morning, there are just 10 people in the place, but seven, including me are connected, and four have iPads. Two people, both past sixty are reading the morning newspaper, getting news from mostly last week. We’ve hit a watershed moment. People are … Read more
