This video news report tells a very tragic story of how shortsighted companies have gotten in an era of staying connected. While Quest and SkyWi may have a dispute over money, the customers of SkyWi likely paid their bills. To leave them stranded, without an option was shortsighted, and the New Mexico regulators had to … Read more
For a company still at the angel round, Fonolo continues to garner the kind of attention that consumer brands crave to be awarded. This time it was from trendspotting Springwise, an 8,000+ person early “things to watch, things to know about” organization.
While the focus of the site I found is about the Working Woman, the tips in this post are very much on target and on point when it comes to working at home for man or woman. In many ways they mirror what I’ve told my own staff for the past few years, but I’ve … Read more
I am working hard at not going on the road as much in 2009 as the last 20 months have been rather exhausting. Between the planning of my two wedding events in 2007, the two events, one in Montpeyroux France and the other in San Francisco, plus the extended renovations in my community to 90 … Read more
I have to wonder what the SF Examiner would have said if they had either Verizon’s FIOS or SureWest’s FTTH connectivity. In areas where AT&T is the only option to the cable company, AT&T’s UVerse is looking like a pretty good home or workplace upgrade to DSL. I mean, in some areas they are promising … Read more
Back in 2005 client Iotum went to Demo, captured a Demo god award for Pronto, a conference all and calendar mashup that brought intelligence to the conference calling arena. Last year client ifByPhone rolled out what Professor Mashup Thomas Howe calls one of the easiest to use Voice API platforms around. Now I see Ringful … Read more
Om Malik is a Mac fan through and through. So I have to wonder if he changes his opinion of NetBooks and joins the rest of us who have embraced them already when (if) Apple comes out with one of their own. You see, there are times for my Mac Book Pro or Mac Book … Read more
History always repeats. No question about that. First media form to grow big was the newspaper. Chains emerged. Profits soared. The most powerful force in any community was the newspaper. Think about it, every major comic strip from SuperMan, to the Green Hornet to Spiderman had the newspaper as a center piece of the story … Read more
Last weekend I went into RadioShack and grabbed one of the Acer Aspire One Netbooks for $99.00. Yes, I already have a few other Asus and even a original release Aspire One from six months or so back, but this one is different. It has 3G inside and works on HSDPA via AT&T. Add in … Read more
It was back in 2005 when at the suggestion of a few friends at AOL, namely Jim Tobin, who is now at Comast, Cindy Harvey and Ragui Kamel invited me to “shake up” an AOL creative session by being the protagonist on a panel that included uber analysts Mark Winther of IDC and other that … Read more
