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Esme Vos is Ms. MuniWireless and her experience at Logan Airport in Boston, MA mirrors my experience. They just don’t make it easy to get online.

Skype founder Niklas Zennstrom gives his perspective on change, disruption and the future of technology in a feature on the BBC’s website.

Calling it the “Telephony API of the Week,” uber VoIP applications developer, Thomas Howe has taken a hard look at API’s and has begun a weekly “pick of the week” concept highlighting things from a software applications developer’s perspective. What he also does towards the end of the post is lean towards his winning ways … Read more

I had a wonderful hotel experience, broadband and all, at the St. Julien Hotel in Boulder, CO. It was the kind of experience that made me wish I was there for more than one night. First the meat of the matter: Broadband-Wired In Room and Wireless Available Speeds: 800k in both directions at 11 PM … Read more

A little birdie told me that users of Verizon Wireless’ Broadband Connect product now are being capped at 4 Gigs a month. That pales to what I’m also hearing from other sources that the prospect of Verizon Wireless and Verizon merging is looming. It seems that Verizon Wireless folks are hearing talk of their work … Read more

To many, the E911 issue caused by VoIP is a growing problem and people should be concerned. Presently the E911 solution requires too much honesty on the part of the user, validation on the part of the operator, the intervention of a third party to relay the data to the right PSAP and a lot … Read more

If you use a Macintosh and often wondered just what’s what with VoIP for your faithful friend, you can breathe a sigh of relief. Jimmy Atkinson has authored a book that helps Mac users get on an even keel with Windows OS users who want to take advantage of VoIP.

Years ago Microsoft had a partner in the early days of VoIP with Net2Phone. Those days seem to be over as Microsoft is rolling out their version of Click2Call (likely leveraging the Teleo technology they purchased sometime back) to work with Verizon. Update—> Thomas Howe has an interesting perspective on the whole approach Microsoft is … Read more

Vodafone, one of the top three mobile operators in the world, and a partner with Verizon in Verizon Wireless here in the USA, has announced a new lower priced mobile data plan in the UK. The plan at 7.50 pounds per month covers 120 megs of data, much lower than T-Mobile’s 1GB plan at the … Read more

Om Malik at GigaOm is reporting that Amp’d Mobile is in deep trouble and that creditors may get burned. Let’s face it, MVNO’s in this country don’t make it regardless of how sexy they may look on the surface. Too much me too, not enough me different. Not one of the MVNO’s has embraced the … Read more