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It was Coffee Time. Now it’s wine time. I’m in Madrid so that means tapas, tavernas and tasty times.

It looks like with Google’s buying of Gizmo that the world of SIP origination and termination via anyone who has the ability to be a SIP or Asterisk based origination and termination player will rise to the surface. Earlier this week we saw the arrival of Localphone.com and now it’s Super-Phone.com which is offering voice … Read more

As an experiment I turned on my fully charged iPhone at 1000 AM today. After three hours of very light use I am now at 65% of battery life left compared to 90% on my Droid which is seeing heavy use. By that I mean I have push turned off on the iPhone while the … Read more

Wireless Moves has a very good summary of just how many voice calls can travel over LTE compared to GSM, UMTS and HSPA. The key though in reading the post is in the summary: The numbers are stunning and offer interesting opportunities in the future. According to these numbers LTE is 10 times more efficient … Read more

If you have PSTN numbers for Gizmo In service you may not have seen this language on the administration page: We are currently working on a migration strategy. No call-in numbers will expire at this time. We will provide ample notice for you to have uninterrupted service. What does that mean for users? One of … Read more

The New York Time’s Brad Stone broke a story late Tuesday night about COO Scott Durchslag departing Skype to return to the world of the Fortune 500, from whence he came, as the gentle giant from Motorola was put in as part of a big picture, strategic rethink by the eBay folks. Now, with a … Read more

Did you ever want to send a package to someone and not know their “physical” address. It could be someone on your aging AOL buddy list, or even a Twitter Pal. It may be the person who you “met” using Match.com or one of the “social dating sites.” Regardless of how you “know” them or … Read more

Did you ever want to send a package to someone and not know their “physical” address. It could be someone on your aging AOL buddy list, or even a Twitter Pal. It may be the person who you “met” using Match.com or one of the “social dating sites.” Regardless of how you “know” them or … Read more

Rich Tehrani has a nice summary post about the 2010 IT Expo that will take place in Miami Beach in January. I took advantage last week of a one day sale from Virgin America to buy my flights from the west coast and back, and had already booked my hotel some weeks ago. As usual … Read more

My all time favorite Travel Critic of All Time, the venerable Joe Brancatelli, who pulls no punches, and always calls them like he see’s them, has a two page story in Portfolio Magazine about WiFi in the Sky. In the story, Joe basically says that the flying public is cheap, and to his credit, he’s … Read more