AT&T Bundles Broaden Appeal and Market

Fierce Wireless brought to light a new AT&T bundle plan aimed at small business. In essence it’s a one bill play combining wireless, wired and high speed Internet services, all starting at less than $100 a month. This is a way to simplify billing, and to get more of each customers business across their different … Read more

Radio Shack Adds More Telephony Toys

Not content with just mobile phones and Netbooks (from Acer), the know it all technology and gadget guys at Radio Shack just added OOMA. Now the question is, how many per store will get sold and how thin has the distribution of the boxes? I ask that because even the very hot MIFI that Verizon … Read more

Me and My Verizon MiFi

I’ll admit, I’m a gadget guy, and the kind of person who just has to have the latest and greatest, then push the limits of it to the nth degree immediately upon purchase. I did that once with my Nissan 300zx back in 1995 when I bought my Z, getting to the 350 mile mark … Read more

GoGo Mixed Reaction To My Virgin Voyage

Let me start off by saying that in flight WiFi can’t be beat, but lousy customer service for a new product can kill it off. This past Wednesday I boarded Virgin America flight 404 from LAX for JFK and after we crossed the 10,000 foot mark on our ascent out of Los Angeles opened up … Read more

Wave Goodbye to Email As We Know It

I spent a large part of the early morning here in New York City watching the demo of the developer preview for Google’s new Wave. I’ll refer to Wave as transformational, as its not revolutionary, but moves work flow from asymmetrical to both symmetrical and asymmetrical universes simultaneously, changing how you work both in real … Read more

Taking a Flyer

This week I learned an old friend from my hockey era (1976-96) had passed away at the age of 44. The former Flyer, Peter Zezel was someone I first met at his first training camp. I had taken a few players to the hospital following a spirited practice one late summer day back in 1984. … Read more

Eric Quanstrom Joins Sorenson

Pal Eric Quanstrom has joined Sorenson Media, making this the fourth of my draft picks to be nabbed this year. Eric joins fellow SightSpeed alumnus Peter Csathy at Sorenson Media. Having worked with both, they make an ideal 1-2 tag team. This is a very strong hire for Peter and for Eric it means SURFS … Read more

Great Coverage of HD VoIP Summit

One of the challenges of growing my business is being everywhere at once. Sometimes its at conferences and other times its being with clients working on the next big thing. Last week when Jeff Pulver held his first HD Voice Summit i was locked away for two days and a half in San Francisco with … Read more

AT&T To Expand Netbook Deals

AT&T is bullish on the netbooks. So bullish that they and the manufacturers are taking very aggressive pricing to the streets with the opportunity to buy in for $50.00, and a multi-year contract. As someone who has the Acer Aspire One and the AT&T data service inside of it, I can attest to how snappy … Read more

New Player in Social Network Asset Sharing

Companies like ShoZu and PixelPipe now have a new resident in the same neighborhood. CellSpin is promising to do for content with social media much of the same thing the others are doing, help users get content to more places faster and easier.