It seems that the lawyers at Sprint are done looking at store leases and have gotten around to chasing patent violators as a follow up to their big win against the just sue me folks at Vonage. Now Sprint is suing four smaller players according to Jeff Pulver. This comes on the heels of Verizon … Read more
The Castro in San Francisco is one of the more “colorful” neighborhoods in the city by the bay. It’s very trendsetting in a lot of ways, so it is not a surprise that the folks at FON are saying “share the Castro.” With the city of San Francisco’s WiFi program on a perpetual hold cycle … Read more
In what looks like a move that could push video conferencing to new heights, Verizon Business has rolled out high definition video conferencing.
Pal Luca has shared with me the launch of an integration of Jajah with Hictu. It is an elegant way to have social communications and may be about the best demonstration of using the Jajah APIs to work beyond a web browser that I have seen.
Give the Gizmo5 team some credit for a catchy name for their new service called “Backdoor Dialing” that makes more calls free. It appears what they are basically doing is connecting SIP numbers the same way others like Voxalot and JunctionNetworks are too making those calls that go to numbers which are Net connected free. … Read more
This story brings back memories for me. When I was cutting my teeth in the PR game in the 70’s when I worked for the Philadelphia Flyers Hockey Central organization one of the papers I used to phone scores into and which had reporters I tried to entice to cover high school hockey was the … Read more
A few bloggers and some industry folks have asked to meet up in Miami this week during TMC’s ITEXPO. As I told Rich Tehrani a few weeks ago in a personal email, client business has taken me out of the country this week. With a series of meetings in Israel and London it makes it … Read more
AT&T Wireless now will offer SIM only plans. This opens up the network more easily to unlocked phones. It also means when you go to their store you no longer will be forced to buy a phone you don’t need. It also means that the subsidy of a handset isn’t needed, and thus in theory … Read more
This is called a bellweather announcement from AT&T. By dropping the price to $65 a month for all kinds of unlimited data, visual voicemail and SMS means that the new high water mark has been set and that over time we will see the price points dropping, and more options for mobile data coming from … Read more
PaidCotent.org has two very interesting stories that are worth reading. Yahoo may be making massive job cuts. Facebook and Nokia may be working together.
