It’s always rewarding when you’ve worked to help someone who has put their heart and soul into an event, the way Lee Dryburgh has with eComm receive some favorable coverage. After eTel was jettisoned by it’s producer, the Emerging Technology community was looking for a continuation of what had been started. When Lee stepped up, … Read more
I just learned that Skype is going to be working with SpinVox on converting and delivering voice mail messages that are received by Skype users. SpinVox will convert the voice messages to text in four languages: English, Spanish, French and German. The messages are then sent by Skype as an SMS text directly to a … Read more
If I ever had a question about how to grow a business that can be built for something bigger, one of the first friends I’d reach out to would be former SightSpeed CEO Peter Csathy. As both an advisory board member with SightSpeed, and then as their agency of record, I got to work and … Read more
Alaska Airlines is the next to to bring us WiFi in the sky.
Skype continues to work in the direction of getting more people to dial out via their service. Now they have opened the lightly used Skype to Go service to all PAYING users, meaning those that have Skype Out credit in their account. Basically this is a credit card calling replacement or a way to compete … Read more
Over the past few weeks I’ve been in a few places (to say the least.) Miami Beach and calling anywhere was easy. My mobile phones with unlimited plans on T-Mobile and AT&T made that easy for stateside calling, and for international there was Truphone Anywhere or on my laptop, Skype. But the real challenge was … Read more
People ask me often, how do I do what I do. Travel as much as anyone on the planet (last year less than 50 days in my own beds in two houses-but they were under repair too and sort of still are.) It all started with the dual city life my wife and I keep. … Read more
Over the past few weeks I’ve been in a few places (to say the least.) Miami Beach and calling anywhere was easy. My mobile phones with unlimited plans on T-Mobile and AT&T made that easy for stateside calling, and for international there was Truphone Anywhere or on my laptop, Skype. But the real challenge was … Read more
Skype didn't hear back from Apple soon enough about receiving approval of their WiFi based iPhone app is my guess so they went with what some would consider a bigger gun. Nokia. Today at Mobile World Congress Skype announced that the next pre-load of Skype will be with Nokia on the Q3 release of the … Read more
Here’s my shortlist of companies I’m going to be watching at Mobile World Congress (including a few clients of course): HTC-this is their coming out party. Their relationships with Microsoft and T-Mobile make them a big factor. Google Android-now that they have the live beta dubbed the G1, expect to see lots more of what’s … Read more
