Jaxtr raised $10 million. Nice. Dameon also talks about the difference between the Jangl crowd and the Jaxtr user quoting some broadcaster I know very well on the whole approach of free or pay. Hint: World technology Roundup on KenRadio.
After a family holiday break Alec Saunders is back from vacation. His first post shows he to suspects something is rotten with the Skype spin job on their outage. As my old lacrosse playing mate with the Philadelphia WingsJohn Grant from Peterborough, Ontario used to say circa 1974 about things when the team hit a … Read more
According to customer service representatives at TimeWarner Cable servicing Los Angeles, customers who were migrated from Comcast and had Comcast phone service are being told to switch telephone carriers. Due to an FCC requirement, the customers must be given a choice (i.e. Cable guys are under equal access rules). So while Time Warner also offers … Read more
Erig Lagerway reports that Lypp is getting ready to start moving.. Lypp, will work with regular and mobile phone, plus the major IM players to create instant and free group calls. Lypp is launching in September.
One of the hottest comment threads over the weekend seems to be the allegation of Comcast using Sandvine technology to packet sniff and traffic watch for BitTorrent seeds and streams. My gut instinct says there is a lot to this story. Here’s why (IMHO). DOCIS 3.0 will be rolled out sometime in the next 18 … Read more
Phil Wolff has another of his wonderful analysis based musings on how telcos can compete against Skype. Have you also noticed the tone and damnation that is running around the blogosphere and now in the press aimed at Skype. Previously they went from being the company you hated to love, but still liked them, to … Read more
Pal Jonathan Green has a post about Sprint and their mobile Wimax branding strategy. I’m sure Xohm will be pronounced ZOOM but like JG I tend to think it means SprintSpeed and would be better at making people adopt. That said, XOHM is very easy to protect and trademark.
Since Skype now has SMS support, and since other easy to SMS interfaces now abound in the Web world I’m finding Paul Ruppert’s post about Text Messaging very timely and thought provoking. While for years various modalities of messaging have been Balkanized islands (IM, SMS, EMAIL, etc.) and where interoperability only now starting to really … Read more
Part of the fun of being a quotable blogger is seeing yourself in print. Today Paige Wiser of the Chicago Sun Times has a story that really helps people figure out how to be working anywhere, and guess what? I’m quoted.
Thanks Luca for the kind words, but really, it is now four! This year four companies I had a hand in have been acquired. My former agency helped Liquid Seats years ago. This year they were bought by eBay. Next up was GrandCentral. Grabbed by Google. Then there was Web Dialogs snagged by IBM. Last … Read more
