I just learned some great news. Long time leader of the TMC conference platform, David Rodriguez is now President at TMC. Rich Tehrani moves up to Chairman and remains CEO. Well deserved as Dave logs more miles on the show floors than anyone I know in the business.
Future thought types have aired their viewpoints via Robin Good, one of the sharper experts on collaboration. My view is that conference have to go well beyond the “presenter” and “audience” model. For years there have been back channel discussion via IRC and more recently using Skype chat for people both in the physical and … Read more
IDG’s Nancy Gohring, has done some really good investigative work about the Zer01 mobile service. Reading through what Nancy has written puts CTIA and it’s entire awards process under a microscope as ZER01 was a CTIA award winner… The key line in my book by Nancy who deserves a medal for her detective work: But … Read more
Michael Robertson, AKA “the Disruptor” wasn’t happy with only doing unto Skype before Skype doeth to him so he launched OpenSky. Now he’s taking aim at GoogleVoice with Guava-Google Unauthorized Android Voice Access. Basically, this is possible due to a peering relationship between Gizmo and GoogleVoice that dates back to the GrandCentral days. What does … Read more
My favorite mixed drink at Hawksmoor in London.
When Peter Csathy was at the helm of SightSpeed the company had vision and direction that included small business. Now under the Logitech leadership the company is moving mostly in the consumer direction. Over in NYC, ooVoo is rapidly growing and moving in the direction that SightSpeed was headed until it was acquired. In reading … Read more
It seems the way Vonage presents their 800 number traffic makes local resident calls to 800 numbers look like their out of market. Since the receiving party pays, faux-pas like this are bound to happen. The radio station uses the ANI (Automatic Number Identification) as a way to verify the caller’s name and address. It … Read more
Right now Comcast isn’t offering a mobile phone service, but they will. And what way better to market to take away the customer from their biggest competitor, AT&T, than with an easy to use, and well thought out iPhone application. What i find so funny here is that Comcast has this app out and running … Read more
A patent from Google that was just announced promise to bring commercials to you on your mobile phone. Unwired View has the details. This patent is going to make life very interesting for all the players in the mobile eco-system. It gives Google, in a word, LEVERAGE. Already they have the sales engine in place. … Read more
I learned today that the latest version of Fring is now offering background notifications, ala what client Truphone has had running since the launch of Truphone 3.0. Fring, Nimbuzz and Truphone are all offering a very complete multi-network and play in the Skype zone very well.
