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Aspiring Thomas Howe wannabees can try their luck in an innovation based Mashup contest around Lypp and HighRise, the CRM solution from 37Signals that starts today. Pal Erik Lagerway has the details.

Aaron Huslage has penned a nice introduction on Ostatic about FreeSwitch, a softswitch based on open source and open standard technology. Some of my agency’s clients use it and love it, so I’m familiar with it more than most. It has a lot under the hood and is clearly disruptive in my view.

Gosh how I miss flying Lufthansa. Not because the German flight attendant’s were also some of the most fun to chat with, but because they had WiFi from Boeing’s Conexxion platform before it ran out of gas. Now it seems the airlines are revving up the idea of WiFi on planes, but will ban phone … Read more

While this story largely focuses on Skype, the reality is the stats will benefit all the players in the game of online conferencing. In this case it’s great news for three clients who many of you are already familiar with. iotum has been hard at work with their Facebook Free Conferencing Calling platform racking up … Read more

Is Fring testing Apple’s mettle? With the release of the iPhone application today, as reported in TechCrunch, they may well be. Many of the developers who live in fear of Apple are avoiding the Jailbreak scenario. Fring is casting those fears aside and going for it regardless. This is much like reporters who are willing … Read more

The UK version of ZD Net is rife with commentary about the lack of any forward movement by Skype since the non-event arrival of the very silent, Josh Silverman. In the case of the ZDNet story, my guess is now that Silverman has had a few months under his belt that Skype will shortly come … Read more

With Telco 2.0 looming this week in London this story is rather timely. WireOne, a video conferencing service provider has been acquired by British Telecom. Long regarded as one of the more forward thinking and inventive telecom companies, BT is making the move to augment their video related comms offerings at a time where everyone … Read more

TechCrunch is reporting an outage with former client GrandCentral. I have sent emails to founders Craig Walker and Vincent Paquet to try to get some kind of status update. Update–at 1156 AM PDT the service is back up and running.

As many of you may know, for the past six months or so I’ve been spending many days and nights on the road. Hotels and serviced apartments, flights that take anywhere from an hour to overnight are a staple in my life, and so is broadband access. But of late, I’ve noticed a few things … Read more

Much to many people’s surprise this morning some of the always reliable T-Mobile Hotspots in Manhattan stopped working. It seems T-Mobile has a massive outage affecting the Big Apple this morning, and according to Hotspot support there isn’t any estimated repair time known yet. The outage this morning that currently affects all T-Mobile Hotspot users … Read more