The State of Google Voice on The iPhone

The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) sums up fairly concisely just what is up with the status of Google Voice on the iPhone. If Google GIVES the Nexus One to all GoogleVoice customers, with some kind of incentive to move to T-Mobile, it will initially be AT&T who suffers. Do you remember the old days when … Read more

Twilio Minutes For The Holidays

Twilio is an platform that lets developers create service much like Voxeo and client IfByPhone. Today they whipped up a “calling card” script using their API and turned it into a Pay As You Go calling plan. This is great for temporary housing companies and hostels where end points can be installed, but where only … Read more

RIM Has A Problem

Last night around 7 PM or so I caught a tweet that made me check my Blackberry. Yes indeed, there must be an outage. Then another tweet came in. Then another, and another. All the while RIM was silent. This is not the first time that Research In Motion was off the air and I … Read more

Silicon Valley Xmas Wish List Report For 2009

The great thing about the Internet is that you can get connected to just about everyone these days. Well this afternoon, my old friend Nick called me via his new SIP connection. It seems the new 100 meg fiber line to his winter abode has finally been connected, giving him even faster access. That means … Read more

Free Gets 3G License in France

I recall once having a cigar with the founder of Free at Atelier Berger, on Rue Berger in Paris one rainy night back in 2006. As a disruptive force in telecom they have clearly been that in France. Now they have 3G spectrum, which can’t be good news for Orange and SFR.

The 21st Century Phone

Give Charlie Stross a read on his well authored post on his blog, Charlie’s Diary. My take is simply this. If you have GoogleVoice in calling party pays environment, you can eliminate a large monthly base mobile bill for unlimited minutes, because every call is received back to you after being triggered by the data … Read more

MaxRoam Disruptor Pat Phelan To Quit

I woke up this morning to what will be big news for anyone who knows Pat Phelan. Love, hate him, be his friend, or his competitor, but this news can only be viewed as a very self-serving decision by Pat. As part of an overall slimming down, to focus more on what’s important to him, … Read more