I just read a note that said AT&T is changing their corporate colors from blue to ORANGE. Does that mean a merger with Orange is coming? AT&T spent a lot of money rebranding Cingular to AT&T, and yet back then before the change Cingular was orange colored too. Does any of this spending and branding … Read more
American Express made a phrase very relevant. “Never leave home without it.” Rich Tehrani’s comment today about hotel bandwidth speeds at his hotel made me realize why we subscribe to EVDO Rev A services with both Verizon and Sprint, as well as now HSDPA from AT&T. Here at the event the Los Angeles Convention Center … Read more
Will there be consolidation up and down the line in the video conferencing industry? TechConfidential seems to think so. I’ve often suggested Usage and Attitude or Intender studies be conducted by clients to help determine market readiness for new technology and adoption. Now it seems that Forrester’s Charles Golvin agrees. This is exactly the kind … Read more
Client and friend Alec Saunders gives a rather candid and insightful perspective on the iotum Conference Calling Application that works with Facebook.
Social networking MIG33 has quietly launched an updated version of their beta site. Using a WAP based client on a mobile handset, Mig 33 sets out to bring a web like experience to the mobile phone. While they are also offering cheap long distance, I don’t see this as a Truphone or even a Mobivox … Read more
Hat tip to Joe Brancatelli of “Joe Sent Me…” on this one. Orbitz, which may be the most tech savvy of the travel portals, has launched a mashup of sorts with information that is perfect for the road warrior and frequent flier. The new site has user generated content that delivers first had perspectives on … Read more
I’m totally impressed by the Office 2.0 conference and the quality of presenters, the understanding of the concept of what the 2.0, cloud based collaboration will bring to business in the near term. With companies like BEA and Intuit showing their wares, and with companies like IBM, Oracle and CSC in the audience, you have … Read more
As I intimated last week, iotum has a new trick and its aimed smack dab at the Facebook crowd. Multiple bloggers have been on the case while I spent the day yesterday repairing a self inflicted wound on my Mac caused by MonoLingual and my own actions after Ken Rutkowski did the same thing on … Read more
Today I’ve had two different conversations with people who are talking about what they have heard in the way of advertising supported telephony. The first company company wants to use a speech recognition engine that listens to the conversation and then serves you ads based on what you discussed. To me this has zero merit … Read more
Fring has been making lots of improvements lately to their all in one IM/VoIP client that works on Nokia N series handsets. Now they’ve made it so that the service will work auto roam between both on WiFi and 3G. I’ve asked if this means 3G in the USA because that means it will have … Read more
