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
Why is it that I’m not amazed that Yahoo isn’t planning to be at the Office 2.0 Conference in San Francisco to continue the Voice 2.0 Story that Brad Garlinghouse talked about at VON in 2006…hmm…at eTel Jeff Bonforte (now a Yahoo VP and head of Social Media) went into the idea of Telco/VoIP 3.0. … Read more
If you’re thinking of attending the upcoming MuniWireless show in October don’t expect a warm reception from Esme Vos if you’re with a telco. She’s not kissing no big time telco butt. Does this remind you of anyone we all know and love in VoIP. It sure does. Esme is very passionate about alot of … Read more
Ken Rutkowski and I tease SipPhone/Gizmo Project founder Michael Robertson by calling him Golden Boy on the air at KenRadio. Michael’s a multi-millionaire and has more than most, that’s why today I had to chuckle when I realized little old me has something my down the road by a mile or so pal doesn’t have. … Read more
I love to catch up with news and notes and last Monday’s Telco 2.0 round up is full of things to talk about. Their observation about T-Mobile is right on here in the USA when it comes to data usage. I have always felt that even without the magic spectrum to deploy 3G here in … Read more
