I fly in and out of Sacramento airport alot, as my second home is there due to my wife’s medical practice. You don’t move a doctor that easily. I’ve never been a fan of their bandwidth when a private company ran the WiFi concession. About two years or so the Airport realized they weren’t either … Read more
Jim Courtney of Skype Journal has a nice post about the available alternatives to the late, lamented SkypeCasts which Skype decided to stop operating. He picked up on my Meme yesterday (as did others) about the decision by Skype to shutter a community benefit service. The two suggestions are: Calliflower from iotum and VAPPs’ HighDefConferencing.
Over the past few months we’ve seen a rash of complaints from bloggers and users about Skype. Now I see they’ve decided to retire SkypeCasts (hat tip to Stuart Henshall). I’m not sure why they would be doing this, but I suspect it is a pairing down of non-core business efforts under the new regime. … Read more
It looks like the next concept in wireless technology, the so called 4G version is coming on stream with the hype and hoopla of the Super Bowl meets the Democratic National Convention….. It’s WiMax and the push behind it from the Clearwire/Sprint/XOHM team is a full court press. WiMax maven Paul Kapustka has the lowdown … Read more
Over the summer many a reporter and newsroom writer has been offered a package to leave. Some weren’t so lucky, getting a good-bye hand shake and a few weeks pay. Now today comes word came to me that one of the more established analyst firms, The Yankee Group has laid off 20 or so analysts, … Read more
The Federal Computer Weekly has news about the FCC and E911. While this story isn’t exactly new, I think it’s safe to say that by this time next year we’ll be seeing more new rules that VoIP operators have to comply with to keep people safe and in touch. That said, one has to wonder … Read more
As a resident of San Diego County, I was excited to hear that the region is on tap to be covered with T-Mobile’s flavor of 1700 mhz 3G data in the fourth quarter. With the service live in Dallas and elsewhere now, all we need are devices that are able to work on that portion … Read more
September is already shaping up to be a very busy month. The early part of the month has me on the road meeting with some clients, gearing up for 2009 efforts as well as Q4 launches. That’s week one. Week two is DEMO in San Diego on the 7th, 8th and 9th for me, while … Read more
I’d hate for AT&T to simply cut off CallVantage for those of us who have it. Today Network World recaps something I wrote earlier in the month, and which has been on DSLReports/BroadbandReports as well. Simply put, AT&T is not putting any new customers on the CallVantage platform. This comes at a time when the … Read more
Unlike Denver or Philadelphia International Airports, the Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport gets speeds right. How right? Try 10 megs down and over 18 megs up. That’s a Working Anywhere Approved Airport. Add in the very cool Southwest Work and Power Stations and you have a perfect layover location to get things done.
