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It seems pal Oliver Starr has a crush on the new iotum TalkNow application. A committed user of many mobile devices, Starr is wishing on a star that iotum rolls out TalkNow on more than just the RIM BlackBerry platform

I’m not surprised that Cisco filed suit against Apple. It’s called protecting your Intellectual Property Rights. What’s also interesting is that if as a Mac owner you call Linksys for support you won’t get any..This Anti Mac sentiment is nothing new with that crew.

I’ve known Dave Burstein for a few years, largely via the FOJ (Friends of Jeff–as in Pulver) circle that gets acquainted at VON events. Without being asked Dave jumped to my defense after the Nick Carr commentary on my poor typing and lousy spell checking. Dave sent Nick and I a note, and then he … Read more

Back in the day of when there was one choice in telcos knows as the series of regional Bells you were required to use AT&T for your long distance. Along came MCI and Sprint and a host of others who provided a dial up number locally or via an 800 number and you could start … Read more

Between GigaOm and ZDNet I feel like I was at MacWorld.

As if the Telco 2.0 conference isn’t going to be hot at the end of March, a new wrinkle has been added to ETel, my personally favorite conference for new and emerging VoIP companies to be at. Pal Surj Patel and Om Malik along with the O’Reilly folks have cooked up a new event called … Read more

Minute stealing leader JaJah has already jumped on the iPhone bandwagon by announcing that they will have their software ready for the iPhone when it comes out. As Om pointed out yesterday about the TruPhone business model, I don’t see how as costs for calls drop to zero any of these companies can make money … Read more

I had the chance to play with client Nokia’s new N800 Internet Tablet over dinner last night and is it ever one sweet device. It’s not a phone. It’s a Linux appliance, and already based on the reports I’m hearing, the N800 is the largest selling Linux desktop around, even though it’s shirt pocket or … Read more

AT&T uses the CounterPath Eyebeam softclient in a rebranded manner and has only begun to push the softphone recently after a launch last summer here at CES in Las Vegas. For those on a PC you can take your CallVantage with you. With all the other ways to do the same thing via Skype, Free … Read more

In what has to be one of the worst kept secrets Apple ever had, the new Apple iPhone was announced yesterday. Surprisingly the buzz here at CES about it was less than I expected. Sure many of the geeks and gadget freaks think it’s very cool (I am in this group) and it may be … Read more