Call me the rogue agent. The nomad. The wanderer. But do call me connected. I’m holed up in Madrid, for all the right reasons. It’s a great walking town, and I need to walk. It’s not Paris, where I have spent far too many days and nights, so despite the allure of Le Web, and … Read more
Call me the rogue agent. The nomad. The wanderer. But do call me connected. I’m holed up in Madrid, for all the right reasons. It’s a great walking town, and I need to walk. It’s not Paris, where I have spent far too many days and nights, so despite the allure of Le Web, and … Read more
With retailers going bust, and retail space availability growing day by day, to read that Amazon is going the retail route in the UK is to say the least interesting. Sure, Apple has been successful, but the dot.com companies who tried retail, and failed, started with Gateway. But, Amazon is smart and they are looking … Read more
Our number one pick in the 2009 telecom draft, Martin Geddes, has become a free agent. He’s left BT Innovate & Design, where he was head of strategy, to pursue his dreams. Later this week Martin will launch MartinGeddes.com as he is a brand all by himself. Watch for more news as Martin brings his … Read more
Mobile Mavne Colin Gibbs at GigaOm, writes about Verizon Wireless blocking SMS messages from 4Info that are ad supported. I’m trying to sort through this in my head, but I think it comes down to Verizon gearing up to be an ad sales force of their own. You see, networks by their very nature sell … Read more
Why does my iPhone run through battery power on AT&T like a hot knife through butter but in Spain on Orange the battery life is far better. Well at least with 3G data off. My guess is that the 3G radio in the iPhone and the sparse number of AT&T towers, or under capacity, leads … Read more
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
