Jingle Jangl Go The Daters

There’s a conference in Miami this week focusing on the concept of Online Dating, while up the street is another on adult dating. One of the people hanging out and making news there is Jangl CEO and founder Michael Cerda who tells VoIPWatch that Jangl “let’s them practice safe dating. Online daters love Jangl because … Read more

MaxRoam Makes Improvements

When I was Europe and the UK, Israel and Spain recently I was carrying a few devices, my local SIM equipped Nokia N95, the 3SkypePhone (UK) and my Nokia E61i with a MaxRoam SIM. Back in December during Les Web pal Pat Phelan had slipped me a MaxRoam SIM. When I went to Spain I … Read more

AT&T To Include VoIP in UVerse

What is not any kind of surprise, AT&T is utilizing what is the core of CallVantage, their stand alone VoIP platform within the converged next generation UVerse platform that features IPTV and Wireless services. That’s if you belive Network World’s account. But my sources tell me that AT&T is not repackaging CallVantage as a U-verse … Read more

VON Camp Webinar Tomorrow

Here’s a cool way to hear about what you can expect at VONCamp, the unconference portion of VON that long time friend Carl Ford is organizing. Two of my close friends and clients are on the panel tomorrow, Alec Saunders and Thomas Howe. Both are at the cutting edge of Voice 2.0 and Web 2.0, … Read more

T-Mobile Grows in USA Without A 3G Play

If you want to see why a Fixed Mobile Convergence play is a good thing, just look at T-Mobile here in the USA. Their numbers continue to look good, they keep growing and they continually emphasize how well the fledgling T-Mobile @ Home service is doing. As a user of it, I’m thrilled with its … Read more

Verizon Sees Things Rise on Next Gen Tech

Wireless and FIOS are driving Verizon’s growth. Traditional land lines are “holding them back.” Personally, if I lived in a FIOS neighborhood regardless of the cutting of the copper, I’d have it in a heartbeat. From all accounts I hear the service just rocks. I’m not sure that AT&T’s Uverse can make the same claim, … Read more

Mig33 Raises More Money

Congrats to the folks at Mig33. They just raised another boatload of cash, this time something north of 13million dollars or so. 12 Million or so seems to be the new number that VC’s are giving to second round companies, with 5-6 million being the usual A round from what I’ve seen of late.

Yawn–In the World Of Me To, Me Also Here Comes TokTumi

I was really expecting more from TokTumi after hearing so much from folks leading up to Demo. Now that I read Rafe’s review I’m yawning….bored, and really not interested. Candidly, I’m bummed. I think the world of Peter Sisson, especially after what he did with his last startup, Teleo, selling it to Microsoft. So why … Read more