I’m giving fair warning that I’ll be posting less the next few weeks. Why? Starting this Thursday I’ll be in Europe for my French Wedding, now dubbed The French Connection. Some of you who have followed this blog since its inception, may know that back in 2004 I met Dr. Helene Malabed on Sunday November … Read more
In a move that means a price increase that save heavy road warrior money, Boingo has introduced the global nomads best possible pricing plan. $39 a month all you can surf. As someone who has spent 60 Euros a week or more to be online in many hotels in Europe over the past year, this … Read more
SightSpeed has launched a local version in Australia this morning. The key here is local presence and local servers. Given where Australia is, and how the traffic initially will be county or regional specific, the installation of servers will provide the same high quality experience we have come to know and love here in the … Read more
I get asked by many people what are the services I should be using to better manage my personal and business life, related solely to telephone service. Friends and colleagues know that as the “early adopter” and alpha tester, not to mention agency to many early stage companies including Truphone, TalkPlus and GrandCentral as well … Read more
Reports are a new VoIP play is coming out of the valley called OOMA. Nice name. Interesting board and a promise to do for telephony what Napster did for music.
Tom Keating finds out that Vonage is pursuing a very cheap monthly pricing strategy to retain users. This is called “churn prevention” and is much like running a charge twice on a credit card knowing that it will be 30-60 days before the error is caught and credited. It makes the numbers appear better, but … Read more
Rich has a very thought provoking post about VoIP resellers. I’ll concur that he does one heck of a job at bringing the resellers together at the TMCnet Internet Telephony conferences. As a matter of fact he likely does the best job of telling the world that resellers will be at their conferences. There’s one … Read more
I am outraged that anyone would question my good friend Om’s credibility, integrity and objectivity as Valleywag and a few others chose to do. Om today bared his soul in a post in response in a very professional way. Given both my professional, personal and blogger relationship with him for now over three years I … Read more
It’s great to see client iotum getting more accolades from the mainstream technology press. At Enterprise 2.0 founder Alec Saunders was up against a lot of powerful competition but seem to catch Information Week’s Nick Hoover’s eyes and ears.
Take a look at how to contact the “New” AT&T Public and Media Relations Department. Email. No Phone Numbers. By the way. Most of these people do not work for AT&T at all. They work for an independent PR firm. I guess AT&T is trying to tell us that the phone call is an outdated … Read more
