Rich Tehrani “Gets” Airborne WiFi

I’ve been busy playing catchup on my blog reading after what amounts to almost a full week of being in conferences and meetings in San Francisco. The long weekend gave me time to catch up with Rich Tehrani’s post about his WiFi experience on Virgin America, one I’ll be having this week as I’m off … Read more

Rich Tehrani “Gets” Airborne WiFi

I’ve been busy playing catchup on my blog reading after what amounts to almost a full week of being in conferences and meetings in San Francisco. The long weekend gave me time to catch up with Rich Tehrani’s post about his WiFi experience on Virgin America, one I’ll be having this week as I’m off … Read more

james Body-Armed And Ready

James Body of Truphone fame–he’s the one with the Batman like utility belt filled with gadgets and gizmos has his blog up and running. James is always good for tips and tricks. Ask him sometime about Bluetooth Headsets and what they may tell you.

The Apple App Store = Wal*Mart

Imagine in the past you’ve been a product manager at Nokia, Microsoft, RIM, Motorola, Samsung, Palm, Siemens, Sony Ericsson or at SUN overseeing Java for mobile or at Qualcomm watching over Brew. For years your bosses have been asking you how do we make more money off of all these applications we have developers developing. … Read more

WiFi Voice Making More and More Noise

With a new standard coming soon that makes VoWiFi easier and better, including the all important handoff, I’m suspecting that it’s a burgeoning sector, finally. Yesterday at the Churchill Club, one of the original Skype backers at DFJ started to make some points about the viability, and what a Skype spinout of eBay will mean, … Read more

The Real Time Web Brings Challenges In A Good Way

I am taking the position that ripping off content is a bad thing, and Google led the pack by initially permitting all kinds of content into YouTube until such time as they could understand the metrics, and apply a revenue model based on advertising performance. Today GigaOm and NewTeeVee’s Liz Gaines story jumped to BusinessWeek … Read more

Get a Clue

While I’m not a developer I can’t help but sing the praises of the annual ClueCon conference, held each year in Chicago. I was there last year and had a blast, but alas this year I can’t be there as I have a birthday coming up and will be in France for this one as … Read more

The Aircell/GoGo Double Standard

Given how much anti-VoIP, no calling from the skies GoGo has made to date to support American Airlines and other no-call policies I guess some may be surprised about the upcoming Oprah call via Skype. I’m not. Aircell which is the company behind GoGo promotes the VoIP capabilities to their private jet/non-commerical customers all the … Read more

Nokia N97 Shipping Soon

VNUNet is reporting that the eagerly awaited Nokia N97 will be shipping in June. The device has WiFi, a VoIP stack, SIP embedded and lots of goodies. It’s lightweight and will be the first Nokia device to seamlessly integrate with the Ovi store, Nokia’s app store. Nokia, which is a client of my agency, has … Read more