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A post worthy of a read is Stowe Boyd’s post about WiFi in the sky.

In my mind this year’s Fall IT Expo was a success. The floor was full of people, the conference sessions seemed to be close to what I’ve seen before, and the additions of Jon Arnold’s Smart Grid and Carl Ford’s 4GWE sub-conferences brought out new folks to the event. First off Packet8 is marketing very … Read more

Skype has been sold by eBay. Well sort of. They have been set free and made as CEO Josh Silverman said, an independent company, starting a new era. While some VC firms are involved, the real money seems to be coming from Silver Lake Partners, who have a track record in buyouts, and has had … Read more

I’ll admit, I’m spoiled when it comes to flying to London or Paris and back to the states. I have flown all but one flight in either business/premium economy or UpperClass over the past two years using points, upgrades and bonus coupons on Virgin Atlantic, the late and lamented MaxJet, Eos or even L’Avion/Open Skies. … Read more

Pal and Sorenson Media CEO Peter Csathy has interviewed the CEO of Fuze (the company formerly known as CallWave) on his blog this week as part of a series of CEO interviews. His post gives some good insight to what’s been happening over at CallWave, one of the companies with great ideas in the past, … Read more

Services like “Google Voice. Online apps. Netbooks. Apple’s tablet. Videoconferencing. E-book readers. Social networking for business. These are digital nomad-enabling trends” writes Australian an Australian blogger. I agree. These are what keeps people on the go connected and in touch.

With now almost three months of operating from various places in Europe and with more than almost sixty percent of my time load this year spent traveling or being in either the UK, or just being on the road at home, I’ve found that for both professional and personal reasons I’ve spent a lot of … Read more

Over the years Yahoo Messenger has been really at the forefront of desktop video, and overlooked by many. Even former client SightSpeed, and now Skype, all got the big kudos from the press, as has of late newcomer ooVoo. But all along the folks at Yahoo always just smiled and kept going along their merry … Read more

Time Magazine, known for their annual person of the year, has published a list of the top fifty web sites for 2009. It’s a very compelling and eclectic list of sites that is worth more than a passing glance. What has me excited though is one of my clients, who advisory board I sit on, … Read more

I must say, the number of CallVantage users out there who are not in the AT&T footprint but are happy with their provider amazes me at this point. Despite zero marketing the last few years the service that AT&T’s new masters from SBC killed (only to have another group now working on a replacement of … Read more