WiFi NetNews has a nice summary of the state of WiFi on the rails. In my view railway based WiFi is a great way to preserve the environment. As someone who regularly has taken the train from San Diego to Santa Barbara or L.A. or into SF from Sacramento having an EvDO connection has been … Read more
“Oh yeah….” those of you who ever watched WWF will remember Randy “Macho Man” Savage and his famous “Oh Yeah” line that he would use just as he started an interview. Well, that’s kind of what I’m expecting at the Mashup Mania event that O’Reilly’s crew has put together next week at the eTel conference … Read more
When I read VoIPLowDown’s post about the top fifty VoIP gadgets I had a flash back to the “Joe the beer man” who for many years was a seller in the Spectrum in Philadelphia. Joe would walk the aisles selling beer, and at crucial times would put his tray of beers down and lead the … Read more
Jim Courtney of Skype Journal has taken the plunge and is working his way through the concept of “the New Presence” and has focused his initial efforts around client iotum’s Talk Now application which I must admit is pretty neat. Since getting my new Blackberry 8700 (I’m on T-Mobile so the 8800 is a while … Read more
According to eMarketer the North American Market is going to be the biggest Voice over WiFi market in the world. This has to be great news for my pal Steve Howe at Earthlink who is closing in on unveiling their new WiFi phone shortly, as well other WISP (Wireless Internet Service Providers) like Boingo. For … Read more
A few short weeks ago I penned a piece here on VoIPWatch as to why Apple and Cisco would be working together. It seems I was right. This is the tip of the iceberg between the two companies. For weeks I have been saying on KenRadio and in private conversations that an Apple relationship will … Read more
Matt Miller, Paul Kapustka, Alec Saunders, Garrett Smith and Ken Camp are all providing incredible analysis on the interoperability between GrandCentral and GizmoProject. Last night Craig Walker, CEO of GrandCentral was my first call to try it out. A few minutes earlier, Dameon (PhoneBoy) and I had just completed a Gizmo to Gizmo call on … Read more
Matt Miller, Paul Kapustka, Alec Saunders, Garrett Smith and Ken Camp are all providing incredible analysis on the interoperability between GrandCentral and GizmoProject. Last night Craig Walker, CEO of GrandCentral was my first call to try it out. A few minutes earlier, Dameon (PhoneBoy) and I had just completed a Gizmo to Gizmo call on … Read more
Skype Journal’s Jim Courtney has a very insightful thought piece on the state of being always on and what the always connected folks can do about it. Jim is being daring, trying out new applications like FRING, TruPhone, iotum’s TalkNow and others on his devices. In doing so he’s breaking the same ground that other … Read more
Om Malik at GigaOm.com thinks so. Check out why he thinks the “Hail Mary” play around WiFi is nothing much and really more confusing to the market.
