A report based on a talk at Stanford University by FCC Chairman Kevin Martin makes me think that the communications czar is waking up to the antics of Comcast. In many ways Comcast is a company that moves forward at every turn, yet in others they step on their you know what as they walk … Read more
Both this week’s eComm and the upcoming VON Unconference are my kind of events. Free flowing dialogue. New ideas and some of the brightest minds in the business. Are you going? VONCAMP, led by Thomas Howe, Carl Ford and Jeff Pulver, just added a second day. That ought to tell you that the interest and … Read more
Jeff Pulver’s post reminded me that I need to make it easier to be found in this mad month of March. Next week is eComm. Be there or be behind the curve of what’s really emerging in voice, video and real time communications. There’s also the IDG Voice Summit on Tuesday which I hope to … Read more
Forbes somehow came up with a methodology to measure and rank airport WiFi. Unfortunately, my first hand experience in San Diego, Phoenix, Las Vegas and elsewhere, where the WiFi is free has demonstrated that Free is rarely as good as paid. I caught up with Boingo CEO David Hagan who had some pointed and very … Read more
Back in September client Truphone stole the press coverage at Demo 2007 with their on stage demo of Truphone on the iPhone. A few days later Apple did yet another anti-hack lock down of the iPhone OS making life more difficult for all VoIP type players. Yesterday Steve Jobs and the Cupertino Crew took center … Read more
Stuart in his post yesterday basically asked what’s new? I agree. In many ways he’s right. A lot of what we see these days is really what I keep calling “Me Too, Me Also, not Me Different” from many companies. That’s why eComm should be very exciting. Many new companies will actually be showing NEW … Read more
Last year we worked with Telephony2, a small angel backed company that had a killer telephony service suite for SOHO based on .Net. This year we’ve seen TokTumi and now Jazinga come to market. My question is not if there is a market, but how any of these companies plan to get to the market. … Read more
Yesterday the news broke about 65 companies that the VON and PulverMedia team consider innovators with the launch of the VON Innovators Award. I’m happy to say that of the 65 companies I’m aligned with five of them, four of which I advise or which my agency, Comunicano handles their external communications. Congratulations to Agito … Read more
Jangl is trying to prove that people will want ads with their phone calls with the launch of a new ad campaign to prove the point, reports Mashable. This comes on the heals of Jangl powering a dating site called Plenty of Fish, which TechCrunch wrote about in January. Candidly, for the causal sex (See … Read more
Vodafone is rolling out a VoIP over WiFi type play in Germany. This sounds a lot like client Truphone or T-Mobile’s Hotspot at Home.
