I grew up in Philadelphia and was saddened to see how bad the WiFi was. How bad? Less than 300k. What’s more a few of the power outlets in the Southwest Concourse D weren’t working either. Luckily I carry the Novatel 950 and an AT&T 3G card. That worked fine with over 1.5 megs down … Read more
All of a sudden, over the last 24 hours, once again, GMAIL is not working on the iPhone via the native Mail app. The problem is IMAP authentication and its not fun. The last time this happened, it was a Google change to the authentication process, and it impacted the PAID Google APPS mail accounts … Read more
This post is dedicated to my father, the late Master Sergeant Bernard Abramson, who in the USMC fashion taught me that “the impossible we do right away, but miracles take a little longer.” He would be proud. Tonight I got an email from Laptop Magazine’s new News Editor (recently promoted) Joanna Stern, asking me to … Read more
This post is dedicated to my father, the late Master Sergeant Bernard Abramson, who in the USMC fashion taught me that “the impossible we do right away, but miracles take a little longer.” He would be proud. Tonight I got an email from Laptop Magazine’s new News Editor (recently promoted) Joanna Stern, asking me to … Read more
A few weeks after BT grabbed Silicon Valley startup, Ribbit, Voxeo, located out of the usual tech belt in Florida, has shown us once again that the business of VoIP is on the way up, not down. In his post, Voxeo resident social media maven, Dan York, highlights details of the way things are going … Read more
Even though the Chicago Tribune says cellular phones and VoIP won’t be allowed on the Aircell network on American Airlines, and singled out Skype, have no fear. Skype Instant Messaging will still be allowed. It’s just the voice traffic that will be “filtered” or “blocked.”
It looks like the 640 x 480 video barrier for HD video over a web cam has been shattered as Tandberg just announced a new 720p30 business grade video conferencing platform that works on Intel’s new Quad Core 2 processor based computers, code named Montevina. The new service will be named Movi and will be … Read more
I think I have to worry about trying to update my Comunicano web site. It seems Skype Journal has been frozen by the lack of engineering support at Yahoo where I also host my business web page. Note-the page is about to change, but I wasn’t planning on changing my host. Jim Courtney of Skype … Read more
Alec has a post that is really more about his Calliflower Service doing what VC Rick Segel said he was looking for, but unaware of Calliflower. Alec does a very polite job at pointing out what Calliflower does and why it doesn’t do certain things. One of which is have an Outlook Plug-In. Alec’s reasoning … Read more
