The New York Times has a very interesting article about the social implications of what happens when people switch cell phone carriers. The idea of calling circles dates back to the MCI “Friends and Family” era of calling plans, but in the era of the mobile society friendships are made and maintained on the go … Read more
Recently I had to stay in San Jose and I chose to stay in the lovely Fairmont Hotel. I’ve stayed there before and always felt the experience was worth a return visit. The first room I was given was by the pool, but had a tobacco odor even though it was a non-smoking room. As … Read more
I just heard from the travelwatch maven Joe Brancatelli of joesentme.com and Conde naste’s Portfolio that computers won’t be the only thing that comes out of the bag when we go through airport security. It seems the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has changed its policy on electronics in carry-on bags BEGINNING TOMORROW, Saturday, August 4. … Read more
It looks like Mitel and Newbridge founder and telecom legend Terry Matthews has become Chairman of the Board of Counterpath, the soft client leader in VoIP. The change in leadership came about as part of CounterPath buying a WesleyClover company called NewHeights that cleared all hurdles this week.
Check out what Boingo is doing with the Apple iPhone. Now that’s smart coat-tail style marketing.
While I’ll never profess to be a numbers guy, looking over the press release about 8 x 8’s earnings today shows that last quarter they turned a profit. That was their first ever quarter since launch five years ago. On the surface they also seem to be reducing cost for customer acquisition and are also … Read more
The FCC’s decision to open up the 700 mhz spectrum to non carrier approved devices is great news for many companies in the VoIP business in my estimation. Given how 2.0 type communications could proliferate in the newly awarded spectrum this opens up all kinds of doors for everyone from applications developer, handset designers and … Read more
It looks like the folks at Kayote Networks are growing their business nicely. The company, has taken a very smart approach and added customers to their technology platform that is really a virtual softswitch.
Belgium based SipCat, a voice 2.0 company has started to blog, much like the folks at clients Junction Networks, PhoneGnome, iotum, Truphone and GrandCentral as well as our friends at Global Crossing and SightSpeed. Blogging as representatives of the company or as David Beckemeyer, Alec Saunders and SightSpeed’s CEO Peter Csathy do as individuals, but … Read more
Ok, I bit. I decided to take Om’s lead about ooma and despite my concerns that were only reinforced by a back channel thread led by some of the brightest minds in VoIP blogging that Om started, I was willing to give ooma a shot. That was until I got to the very last stage … Read more
