The Times of London has a story today about the new Skype enabled phone that the carrier named 3 will be rolling out reportedly this week. Basically, there will be a Skype button that brings up your Skype buddies who are online and you can call them. Ok. But you can’t use Skype Out. Strike … Read more
Tom Keating reports on AIM Call Out which looks and acts very much like Jajah to me. Some well placed sources lead me to believe it may be a private label version.
With Skype on 3 getting lots of play, pal Jim Courtney has an extensive piece on Skype and Mobile. It is seriously worth a read.
The New York Times in so many words, along with the Associated Press have basically, in so many words labeled Comcast liars, around the Bit Torrent issue. Let’s not go that far. Let’s call them experts in managing the truth. That kind of crisis management may have worked when Comcast was growing, but now in … Read more
Unlike the very locked down EVDO world, WiMax offers the promise to developers of a greenfield play. When I read comments like this from Sprint I’m jazzed. But I’m also guarded as Sprint has always talked promise but then never delivered. If true to their word this could be a bonanza for many companies looking … Read more
SIP and Leopard are like oil and water as of the general release version of the new Apple OS dubbed Leopard. After years of peaceful coexistence with the VoIP world the new OS and SIP based applications that I’m using on my Mac Book Pro Core 2 Duo just aren’t working. No EyeBeam No GizmoProject … Read more
The Inquirer and GigaOm both heap praise on client Truphone…..lots is happening with our lads from the UK..and they’re just getting going. Mobivox, the easiest way to call your friends for free from any phone, scored a Windy City story in the Chicago Sun Times while video ringtone client Vringo hit the Wall Street Journal … Read more
Pal Om spent some time (all of 15 minutes was his allotment) with AT&T Prexy Randall Stephenson last week at Web 2.0. His recap of the interview is full of promises by the giant telco’s new leader. What is obvious to me is the new AT&T is not your daddy’s AT&T anymore. Stephenson is talking … Read more
Verizon’s FIOS just started offering 20 megs symmetrical. That means 20 megs upload and 20 megs download. Ok…its time for the cable guys to get off their horse, look at DOCSIS and say “we have fiber. Let’s go to the home.” If they do, speeds can go higher than what Verizon is offering because Verizon … Read more
Hats off to Jeff, Carl Ford and Jason of VON and Pulver Media for the scheduling of the first UnConference at a VON event. Over three events ago I suggested they needed a more unstructured format around VON. To their credit they sat down and figured out how to do just that.
