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I really like this post from Rich Tehrani. Rather than add more, just read it and draw your own conclusions.

For many in the wireless and mobile world, the name Jeff Belk is rather familiar. In San Diego circles he’s the recently retired Senior VP of Strategy and before that Sr. VP of Marketing at Qualcomm. He’s also a close personal friend. Today he debuted on Unstrung and shares some insights from a real wireless … Read more

Following up on my post of the other day, it seems now IDG’s Network World is on the same track and feels there won’t be another VON this year. According to this press release it looks like a cool $1.7 million was recovered from PulverMedia by TICC when they seized the assets as a secured … Read more

Pal Pat Phalen has launched TwitterPhone, a service that delivers dictated text messages via their mobile to be sent out to everyone on their Twitter social network. This makes access to the network of Twiters voice and phone capable. I’d say this is rather ingenious.

Om breaks a story about the death of XOHM, the rebirth of Clearwire and a lot of interesting partners.

This story by Om is rather interesting on the possibility of a global telco led initiative to compete with Skype. My take is that it would have a better chance of succeeding if the cable companies were involved, and not on the sidelines. Here in the USA they control more of the access than the … Read more

Back on November 11, 2007 I called the possible merger/acquisition of Sprint by T-Mobile back when Rich Tehrani was postulating that Google as the possible. Now the blogosphere and media is abuzz that it may happen. Regulators aside, I have it on good authority, and did back then, that the two sides had begun having … Read more

The other day Jonathan Greene posted about the lousy performance when it came to Broadband that he had at the Hotel Monaco in Seattle. The Monaco, like the Palomar here in San Francisco where I am for the week are both Kimpton Hotels and have a long tradition of catering to technology types on the … Read more

With this post from Carl Ford, the long time VON Conference leader and evangelist, I think it is fait acompli that VON is not happening. Here are some other indicators: 1) There isn’t anyone left to run things. Jason, Jeff and Scott have reportedly through the whisper mill moved on. 2) Companies that were getting … Read more

This would be interesting if it’s true. Apple using WiMax. But what continues to be the untold story is how Apple keeps lining up with other chip makers separate from Intel.