I heard that GizmoProject now has a client for Treos, but not for voice. … can now instant message with all major IM networks using Gizmo Project. Users will have the ability to add buddies, see who’s online and send/receive messages with users from AIM, MSN Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, GoogleTalk, iChat and dozens more networks.
I’m hearing rumors that cross platform and cross IM/VOIP client Fring is coming for Windows Mobile. This means more and more apps for more and more VoIP on more and more PDA and Smartphones from the likes of TalkPlus, Truphone, Gizmo Project and now Fring. UPDATE–Here’s the official announcement, two days after we reported on … Read more
WebWorkerDaily has a nice round up post of USA based franchise and chain retail eateries and bookstores that offer WiFi, albeit for a price. But beware, all WiFi is not created equally. For example T-Mobile, which is found in Starbucks, Barnes and Noble and Borders book shops, as well as many hotels and airline clubs, … Read more
WebWorkerDaily has a nice round up post of USA based franchise and chain retail eateries and bookstores that offer WiFi, albeit for a price. But beware, all WiFi is not created equally. For example T-Mobile, which is found in Starbucks, Barnes and Noble and Borders book shops, as well as many hotels and airline clubs, … Read more
This post in PSFK is a few months old, but very much a part of the Working Anywhere concept. Calling the coffee shop the “third place” of life is one thing, but as we evolve more and more into a work culture that is away from the office, being at the cafe is for many … Read more
Skype creating a client for the many flavors of Linux is good news in my book, and while there is still a question about relevance in today’s Voice world by many, I look at Skype and feel there is more coming along from them than meets the eye and ear.
The recent news around an In-Stat survey looks like good news for a few clients, notably Nokia and BridgePort Networks, both of whom have a stake in the seeing the advancement of Dual Mode technology for the mobile phone user. I’ve been using the Nokia E61i and Nokia N95 and my primary phones since April. … Read more
Two good friends have different views on Skype. Ken Camp continues to question its relevance. Jim Courtney shows why it may be getting more relevant. I see both sides, and as long as Skype can politely sit in the background and still allow me to reach others and be reached it becomes another mode of … Read more
Taking a play on words from the old Elvis Costello song “My Aim Is True,” it seems T-Mobile UK is Aiming at Truphone, and potentially other VoIP providers with so called policy efforts that make it hard for people to connect one phone number to another if the carrier decides not to like the other … Read more
Alex Quilici, who was the number two on the Voice team behind my good friend Ragui Kamel at AOL, pinged me recently about his newest venture, YouMail and their new voicemail greeting sharing platform. Like ringtones and ringbacktones, YouMail’s personalization brings a 2.0 offering to the 1.0 mobile phone user’s world. I view YouMail is … Read more
