Over the past week I’ve been shifting between T-Mobile (on my Nokia E71) as well as both Three and Vodafone for mobile data. For ease of use Three and T-Mobile on mobile handsets are simple and easy to deal with, and offer easy to follow pay as you go options for as little as a … Read more
Let’s face it, for those of us in the USA, Indian cuisine is really not something that is found well done except in a few pockets around the nation. But here in London, Indian cuisine is about the best in the world. Over the past year I have dined in many an Indian restaurant, from … Read more
In life some of us have rules we follow, just like some people have lists. Case in point. Never buy a Microsoft branded hardware device and expect it to last more than a few years. How many people ever bought Microsoft 802.11 routers? I did. But do you see them on store shelves any more? … Read more
A lot of time and words are spent bashing Comcast by many a pundit, but you can’t ignore the fact that as a company they clearly have a strategy and a very defined one that says “we want to be you communications company.” In Portland Oregon, a market they serve in competition with iLec Qwest … Read more
Pal Dean Bubley was working in a cafe using is new Novatel MiFi and ran into some content filtering that prevented him from visiting a series of web sites that Vodafone is censoring.
The TechCrunch European Tech Awards nominations are out and the voting is open, and two of my clients plus a company we worked with for a year, Palringo, giving us three are in the running which in hockey terms gives us the Hat Trick! Shozu and Truphone have hit the list in different categories. Truphone … Read more
It looks like Cisco is pulling out all the stops to make people in general more aware of their push for Telepresence, aka, video conferencing for the big corporate set. They have just launched a contest for>everyone to tell them they want “Telepresence.” I have to wonder if they have heard of Skype? With Skype … Read more
Trendstream, a research group that focuses on global web trends has issued a report that was picked up by the folks at the BIG FAT MARKETING BLOG, that shows the emergence of online video as more than just YOUTUBE and HULU. Basically this is exciting news for companies like BrightCove, Sorenson Media, ShoZu, Livestream (both … Read more
The fast pass program known as Clear has had its bubble burst. As Om points out in his post, the service has gone away and in my mind it traveled much the same way as Metricom’s Ricochet, a service that was also ahead of its time. As a true road warrior (I spent less than … Read more
He may no longer be a daily blogger, as he does have to think seriously on how to keep food on the table and a roof over his family’s heads, but from a perspective of insight, understanding and reality, there are few in the telco blogging fraternity (aka “The Cabal”) who are as switched on … Read more
