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Walt Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal has come out with a glowing review of MagicJack in the Journal this week. In the story Walt reveals that MJ’s parent is coming out with a Skype like service as well.

Not a week goes by when we don’t hear of yet another company entering into the aggregation of information space. This week we see Jabbin release their 3.0 Beta. This is a space filled with competition from the likes of VoxOx, Meebo, Truphone, Gizmo (when it’s back out) that do various pieces of the IM … Read more

The Skype deal with Verizon Wireless proves the old adage of “what’s old is new again.” Fearing that throngs of Skype users would do to their EVDO network what the iPhone has done to AT+T, Verizon went with a circuit switched solution that is similar to what Three in the UK has had since 2008 … Read more

Let’s face it, Apple changed the game with the App Store and the iPhone. Nokia followed with Ovi (which is improving), RIM with their version and of course Market for Android. You didn’t think that the GSMA and their members and some of their members, both carriers and handset manufacturers would stand around idly, while … Read more

Sagem-Orga, one of the three or four companies that makes the SIM cards that are placed inside the mobile phone just likely sent shockwaves through companies like San Diego’s Novatel Wireless, Cradlepoint, Option and Sierra Wireless all of whom make 3G dongles and some of whom are creating what I like to call the category … Read more

Fuze Mobility cites a Bloomberg / Business Week article about the next move by Skype with Verizon Wireless in the USA. What I find funny is that Hutchison Whampoa may be a Hong Kong company, but the success of the Skypephone,that already has the Skype service running on it, has been in London using iSkoot’s … Read more

Perhaps the hottest table on the food tourism circuit of all time, the famed El Bulli in Spain's Costa Brava region will be closing FOR GOOD at the end of 2010 as the chef cites both exhaustion and financial woes.

Pal Mark Williamson has become a blogger. The witty, wild minded and whimsical one is using his blog as a combination speakers corner and notification engine. One of the key facts I learned is that Willi’s is going through a renovation the next time I’m in Paris. Sorry Mark, I won’t be hammering or totting … Read more

Rumor has it Cable TV MSO VoIP provider Singlepipe is in play. Reports are they have interest from at least one competitor, Momentum Telecom. A second rumor has it that Skype and Verizon Wireless have gotten chummy of late, and an announcement at next week’s Mobile World Congress is being planned. If you look at … Read more

David Corey is in love with the Mourvedre grape as much as any winemaker in the USA since Randall Graham made his famed “Old Telegram” back in the mid 80s. Since his debut with the 2002 vintage, David has been steadily making strides as one of the west coast’s finest young winemakers with his brand, … Read more