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This week we look at Skype possibly buying Gizmo, the amnesia of Sidekick, Google offering Free WiFi on Virgin America and eComm.

Sidekick users can rejoice. Instead of suffering brain damage, it looks like the data loss is turning out to be more a case of amnesia.

This week I talk about the almost laughable actions of the FCC and Google Voice, the comical but Dangerous memory loss by Microsoft and Danger, a quick peek at what you need to know about Clearwire-whose picture is get more clear and how T-Mobile in the UK now allows VoIP over Mobile Broadband, all on … Read more

I have to give pal Paul Kapustka credit for being the man in the know when it comes to Clearwire and 4G. His just released ClearWire NTK (for need to know) report is chock full of insight, analysis and solid reasoning. Now only if he had mentioned the term PocketSpot would he have gotten an … Read more

It will mean being on a contract (for now) but if you sign up in the UK to a monthly contract for what T-Mobile UK is calling it’s Mobile Broadband Extra package for 30 Pounds a month, about 45 dollars, you’ll be able to take advantage of speeds up to 7.6 megs a second and … Read more

It seems the electronics industry is now letting etailers establish pre-order sales as a way to produce just enough devices to meet anticipated needs. As someone who is an early adopter, and who likes being first, this would appear on the surface to be something meaningful. Except, as someone who has been around the wine … Read more

Yesterday pal Phil Wolff was kind enough to see that I made it into the Google Wave beta. I’m still learning what it does but I can see that it does transform how we collaborate and how a conversation becomes more of a threaded experience than email, chat, IM and so forth. Overall I like … Read more

Lots happening this week as we look at WiFi in the Sky, Clearwire and more money, Google Voice as Hiway Robbery, Cisco Grabs Tandberg, Farewell to CallVantage and more.

A long time ago, I suggested to a very close friend who works for Cisco that they should buy SightSpeed, as it would have fit into their long term vision of using video, instead of voice in the work place, just at the time when Telepresence was getting going, and before Cisco had bought Pure … Read more

A long time ago, I suggested to a very close friend who works for Cisco that they should buy SightSpeed, as it would have fit into their long term vision of using video, instead of voice in the work place, just at the time when Telepresence was getting going, and before Cisco had bought Pure … Read more