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NextAlarm Featured On “Into Tomorrow”

My agency has been working the last few months with NextAlarm, an emerging company that makes it possible for home alarm systems that only worked over PSTN work with VOIP. Over the past few months they have been rolling out some new services. Just last week they were featured on the national radio show called … Read more

DEMO: eJammin–Working Anywhere For Musicians

It’s not just the knowledge worker who needs to be working anywhere, it’s also for the performing artist. Last week at DEMO the presentation by eJammin brought down the house with their distance worker solution for musical collaboration. Candidly I thought it was the best demo of the event because it went beyond technology and … Read more

GETTING IT ON…BANG A GONG FOR DEVICESCAPE

One of the companies at DEMO that really rang my bell was DeviceScape out of San Bruno, CA. While some are panning what they have to offer, by pointing out the shortlist of devices it runs on, I see nothing but good in what they are doing. In simple terms they make getting on a … Read more

GETTING IT ON…BANG A GONG FOR DEVICESCAPE

One of the companies at DEMO that really rang my bell was DeviceScape out of San Bruno, CA. While some are panning what they have to offer, by pointing out the shortlist of devices it runs on, I see nothing but good in what they are doing. In simple terms they make getting on a … Read more

Fon vs. Whisher

I’m not as bullish as some on the idea of sharing my broadband so I can share someone else’s connectivity while I’m traveling. It looks like Glenn isn’t either, but we have different takes on why. First many of the the terms of service agreements outright prohibit the act of “sharing” your bandwidth. Second when … Read more

Is The iPhone About Convergence?

Glenn Fleishman knows his WiFi so it’s worth checking out his story at MacWorld on the iPhone for his perspective on convergence. Reports I’m hearing about the iPhone is that Apple has been bitten hard by Cingular/AT&T the same way the Nokia E62 was. In the words of one friend, castrated is a better term. … Read more

FON and BT Talking About Sharing Access

Last week at DEMO Whisher was presented and many a comparison to FON was made. This week FON trumps Whisher with news that they are in talks to be working with BT. FON offers a very inexpensive solution to the carrier as a way to authenticate onto a network without the network operator having to … Read more

Where’s The Beef?

A few days ago while I was at DEMO pal David Beckemeyer pinged me about his post that asked where are the Voice 2.0 Developers. I’ll ask the question another way. Where is the innovation in Voice? It sure isn’t with the carriers, even the so called next generation ones. Last summer AOL launched AIM … Read more

Nokia and Skype

Stuart raises some interesting points, but I don’t think Nokia did anything to crush Skype’s mobile plans. More than likely it was Skype themselves. This all means good things for GizmoProject and TruPhone. You may also want to take a gander at his post about Fring, a software I’ve been aware of for a while … Read more

Stuart Roars Back and Skype Is His Target

Stuart has always been one of my favorite barometers about Skype and if they are on the right, or wrong track. In his post this past week he nails the problems with their new pricing plans right on the head. What’s more, this is not new thinking. Jeremy Wagstaff of the Wall Street Journal and … Read more