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Pal Luca has come up with a way to drive users towards Hictu. Start using Hictu and you become eligible to win a new unlocked 3G iphone. It’s like Hictu. That simple.

When I read the Network World story about Polycom and look at the prices for their video conferencing solution, which is room based and not really portable, I lose interest. Given the video conferencing capabilities within Skype, SightSpeed and others, one would think IT managers and CFO’s would look to see how people are using … Read more

Mark McLeod is a serial CFO and thank God, someone else sees what I’ve been saying. Ad model based businesses are not the panacea that many think it is. You need a real revenue model, which means you need to cultivate paying customers. The people who like FREE will abandon you the minute they have … Read more

Apple usually is at the forefront of wireless so it took me by surprise that Apple didn’t have the 3G Bluetooth tethering feature in the new iPhone. Let’s look at their “wireless” history. They were the first to embed Bluetooth into desktop and laptop computers with any consistency where access and connectivity was made easy. … Read more

The story in Slate about the death of the landline presents “partial truth” in my view as it picks up a theme that anyone who has had statistics in college quickly learns. The game we learned was called “how to lie with statistics” which really means telling the truth, but using the stats in such … Read more

A report is making the rounds about Skype having a backdoor that provides authorized government officials a way to listen in, and I would guess watch your conversations. Reports also say Skype is not commenting.

Pal and the best darn business travel reporter in the biz, Joe Brancatelli has unleashed Blogistan, a complete one stop blog for all things business travel. And guess what? Joe even featured Working_Anywhere in the links section along with a host of others. Yes. I’m blushing. As a newcomer to this game of Business Travel … Read more

I’m very, very impressed. Rarely does an experience at a hotel go as smooth as mine has at Seattle’s Hotel 1000. Here’s why. The Internet in this hotel is PERFECT. I mean everything works. I have been able to make Truphone calls over my Apple iPhone and Nokia N95 without issue. I’ve set up my … Read more

Client Ifbyphone has been accepted into the Apple iPhone Application Store. They along with Truphone puts two Comunicano agency clients in the program there. Friendly company and sometimes client, MyNuMo, also has one there. IfByPhone’s first application allows users to select multiple contacts on your iPhone and quickly and easily send a voice broadcast to … Read more

Maybe now that they got an infusion of cash Vonage’s most recently hired PR team will start reaching out to influencers again like they did on their way up the VoIP and telco ladder. It’s been months since I heard from them (the USA team that is.) My sources tell me that this is really … Read more