For those fortunate enough to live in an area where Sprint has upgraded EvDO to Rev. A, like my fiance (Sacramento) and myself (Del Mar, CA) the promise of really fast mobile broadband is supposed to be here now. While I’ve been a user of both Sprint and Verizon’s EvDO service since their inception, the … Read more
It appears the highly touted San Francisco WiFi project continues to hit speed bumps. The fact that only 12 concerned citizens (if they were all citizens and not PR and Policy representatives) is a bigger source of concern. 12 in a city as digital as San Francisco…What are we talking here? HomelessWireless? Maybe GrandCentral can … Read more
It appears the highly touted San Francisco WiFi project continues to hit speed bumps. The fact that only 12 concerned citizens (if they were all citizens and not PR and Policy representatives) is a bigger source of concern. 12 in a city as digital as San Francisco…What are we talking here? HomelessWireless? Maybe GrandCentral can … Read more
One of the product lines under Peanut Butter Manifesto’s author Brad Garlinghouse is their email product line. If not, he’s a very lucky Sr. VP, as it leaves a lot to be desired. As an experiment I let my Yahoo Mail email account alone for fifty days. End result was over 1600 emails, of which … Read more
Check out the story in VoIP News which begs the question “what is Voice 2.0?” First I have been using the following to define voice services as I give interviews: Voice 1.0–> The phone service you get from your local phone company (i.e. PSTN) or mobile phone operator (i.e circuit switched cellular) Voice 1.5–> This … Read more
Check out ZD’s Marc Orchant post that is a very good roundup of what other thought leaders are thinking…
A post by Russell Shaw about Skype vs. Gizmo is number one.
There’s been a lot of back channel and now public noise about Skype Journal, a blog and venture many of us are very fond of. My hunch is that Phil has to work out what he’s doing with some of the folks involved just as other blogs are going through some of the same issues. … Read more
IDG has a profile on Skype and how they are going after the business market.
Mr. Blog takes a stance on the Skype pricing plan and goes nose to nose with Russell Shaw in a post a few days back. He’s right but one reason I would never consider Skype as a replacement for MY phone service is that it doesn’t show Caller ID and that’s an essential part of … Read more
