Dumping IM for Skype

Alec Saunders has given up all other IM’s for Skype. I’m close behind with a big ***** but. I’ll explain. For starters I have too many friends and business colleagues who are NOT ON SKYPE. Enter Palringo, a client, and an aggregator of IM networks that does more and easier messaging for me. Plus I … Read more

Jumping To A Conclusion

Apple prices computers and never really lowers them. For the most part the price of Apple computers have remained pretty static while the prices for Windows based PC’s keeps dropping. So when reading about Apple price drops and then the viewpoint of what may be next it’s easy to figure that Apple has a Netbook … Read more

How The Other Half Travels

I admit, I travel alot and usually better than most. I learned years ago from my friends in TV that if you have to be “on” after landing that going more than 4 hours is draining, and when taking an overnight flight, it has to be business class or better. Long gone are my days … Read more

How The Other Half Travels

I admit, I travel alot and usually better than most. I learned years ago from my friends in TV that if you have to be “on” after landing that going more than 4 hours is draining, and when taking an overnight flight, it has to be business class or better. Long gone are my days … Read more

Making Sense of Wideband Audio for Softphones

GIPS CTO Roar Hagen has an informative and educational post about the difference in wideband audio that gets put inside softphones which appeared on their new blog that launched just a week ago. It’s rewarding to see clients take to the blogosphere the way the team at GIPS is taking to it and how their … Read more

Does Beta Culture Hurts Products?

With a hat tip to pal Jonathan Greene, he drew my attention to the concept of Beta Culture. I’m not so biased when things are free against Beta, as the trade off for getting to try the new and shinny products and software requires some quid-pro-quo, with the quo being “pain, blues and agony” at … Read more

Nokia To Start Cell Phone Service In Japan

Client Nokia is going to start their own cell phone service in Japan as an MVNO, largely to position and market their higher end phones reports Reuters. Japan is known for being one of the most advanced mobile societies. I remember a Japanese businessman showing me how he uses his phone to gain access to … Read more

Pulver Goes Social

Jeff Pulver is without question one of the visionary type people who sees things far differently, and usually earlier than many. He was one of the first people to jump on the VoIP bandwagon before it was a big deal and was always the guy tinkering with technology long before others would even dream of … Read more

Something New For GrandCentral Users

I was whipping through my TweetDeck Tweets last night when I came across a random note about a new app from Google’s Code, a place where Google developers hang out and put out all kinds of things. What caught my eye was something that seems so simple one has to wonder why it took this … Read more

HTC WiMax Phone Comes to Russia

Touting both GSM and WiMax for Mobile, HTC has launched a new phone in Russia that will provide up to ten megs of connectivity, plus be able to view 23 TV channels tat will be sent over the WiMax network. Not unexpected, VoIP will be part of the dual mode phone when on WiMax.