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Pal Dean Elwood was featured in a nice post this week.

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

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

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

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

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

I was happy to read this story today about Vishing, a subject I have been pushing our nations banks to become more aware of. Late last year I contacted representative of American Express, Citibank, Wells Fargo and one other bank to ask what they were doing to prevent vishing and to educate their customer base … Read more

A lot of times applications come out for handsets that are in need of testing, but too often the testing is done in house and that leads to all kinds of issues. Two companies I’ve come across of late that offer an interesting virtual model are: Mob4Hire and Nexperience. Nexperience was recently profiled on TelecomTV.com … Read more

Time Magazine has put out a list of the ten biggest technology failures, including such one time hot companies as Gateway and Vonage on the list that also includes Windows Vista. I don’t see Vonage as a failure, rather that it wasn’t a financial success. You have to look at them as pioneers and trailblazers. … Read more

Vonage is the company that I first tried for VoIP. I left, largely because CallVantage simply sounded better. At the end of the day Vonage didn’t sound good enough to be business grade, but AT&T’s product was. Now with the pending mothballing of CallVantage Vonage remains as the mass market alternative that many people will … Read more