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.
A State of California task force is encouraging more and better broadband available to every resident state wide.
Russell Shaw has the news today about Skype now working on the Apple TV…hmmmm What’s interesting to see is how Apple products get hacked an become more useful.
Robert Scoble caught up with client Mobivox and their COO Nitzan Shaer at CES last week and gets the low down on Mobivox’s breakthrough calling service where calls between users are free regardless of phone, be it landline, mobile or even an older rotary dial phone. One of Mobivox’s unique features is the ability to … Read more
MagicJack got a glowing review from PC Magazine…made me wonder. Where has ooma gone. During CES they were radio silent. hmmmmmoooma?
