Megan Scott of the Associated Press caught up with me last week when she was working on a story about the resurgence of the in-flight sleeper seat. As someone who is on the road more and more, knowing the value of a good nights sleep on an overnight flight from the west coast to Europe … Read more
Cisco took a page out of the book of Verizon and is making their Telepresence platform more open. That means users of LifeSize and Tandberg HD systems will sometime next year become interoperable. This makes things very interesting in my view, but still is an expensive proposition.
I’m trying something new called Seesmic from my pal Loic LeMeur of LeWeb fame. Do you like it?
The L.A. Times editorial writer Jon Healy posted a very well thought out viewpoint on Verizon going more “open.” Its a must read as it shows that mainstream media is on the watch, and that’s good for the public. My take on both AT&T and Verizon going “open” is simply this. Actions speak louder than … Read more
J.A. Watson of ZDNet/UK has compared Skype, SightSpeed and ooVoo. The very carefully done comparative review shows his passion and desire to help others find what’s best for them. Give it a read if you care about video communications like I do.
One of the things I am enjoying using while I’m on the road is the T-Mobile @ Home service on my Blackberry. Now a fourth device, the Samsung Katalyst Slider is being offered too.
The world is a very small place and thanks to the Internet has gotten even smaller. Friendships get developed and you stay in touch over great distances on a regular basis, or just know what’s going on thanks to all kinds of means that just a few years ago never were there. When Marc suffered … Read more
Client Alec Saunders reports on the rapid adoption of the free Facebook conference calling application that iotum has developed. With three clients (iotum, Truphone and Voxalot) who have developed really cool apps for FaceBook, I’m seeing Jeff Pulver’s claim that FaceBook is really an operating system take hold. My one modifier to that is its … Read more
Rich Tehrani reports on the demise of CompUSA, which is something I’m not surprised to see. With online shopping for electronics offering way more in the way of product selection, easy to find reviews and lots of unbiased and biased information out there consumers have real choices. The biggest dilemma retailers face in the USA … Read more
With ex Jajah spin master Don Thorson over at Ribbit I’m not surprised at the slow build that we’re going to be hearing about which Tom Keating has reported on. Ribbit is based upon FLEX and the upcoming Flash 10 audio and video engine will do a lot to help them. Adobe is going to … Read more
