It’s All About Cisco

This story out of the UK is all about Cisco and it’s great analysis. It clearly outlines a very clear vision of John Chambers being executed. Cisco is clearly, and rightfully, moving more and more from the core towards the edge, and with their efforts likely going to be doing more deals that bring more … Read more

Nokia To Roll Out VoIP and P2P Manager

Mobile operators are obviously the target customer for this new Nokia “network” management technology from Nokia that enables the mobile carriers to make money off of the minute stealing crowd in ways that compliment their offerings. Three guesses who their targets are….

Your Cellphone Is Really Yours

In what will make many a cellphone owner, the U.S. Copyright office ruled yesterday that it’s a consumer’s right to be able to unlock their cell phone whenever they want to, including before paying off their contract.

Skype To Get Blogger Friendly?

I was thinking about the Jim Courtney posts, the Alec Saunders attack on Spark PR and my rebuttal. My gut instincts tell me that Skype will take steps to reach out to bloggers to try and correct a years worth of underserving us. On a related note, someone at Spark must like me. They invited … Read more

iChat Going Mobile?

As a devout Mac user this rumor about mobile iChat coming from Apple is significant. It’s significant because Apple has consistently proven that it can break new ground with the Powerbooks and iPods. If Apple can make iChat mobile, it will bring video and video messaging to a new level. This mirrors a lot of … Read more

Fixed Mobile and Carriers

It seems according to LightReading, and a Heavy Reading report, that the mobile operators are having a devil of a time getting their arms around the concept of Fixed Mobile Convergence. The problem here is not limited though only to the USA, but is a global issue. With more and more dual mode phones like … Read more

VoIP Quality on Executive’s Mind

A study out of Europe shows that IT executives have a concern about VoIP quality. I do too. The problem seems to be in my mind a lot of hopping back and forth between networks, both PSTN and VoIP that we experience. Of late I’ve noticed degrading line quality when calling cell phones, yet, when … Read more