Maybe it’s me, but I clearly got the impression that Jeff Pulver was more excited about what happened at Telecom Israel than at his own VON Europe. I have to admit, I was. His coverage of the power shift in USA government that resulted from his being at Telecom Israel was full of passion and … Read more
I was explaining to a VC pal yesterday at lunch about the idea of locked cell phones vs. unlocked phones. Here in the USA most people buy their phone from their carrier and get a “carrier approved” phone vs. how it’s done in Europe, where you can either take what the carrier has promoted, or … Read more
The purpose of Beta software is to break it. Companies release the imperfect, likely to crash, may not work perfectly software to the world so users of all kinds can find things wrong with it. It’s not meant to do everything right, and as a matter of fact, it better not. If it did, it … Read more
Om attacks Level3, a company I thought had moved in the right direction, but instead seems to have gotten caught up in the “coat tail” of the “long tail.” Last year the company had made some pretty smart moves, gotten it’s marketing and sales act together and really moved back into the space of being … Read more
I’ve now had my Sony Mylo for about three weeks. I’ve used it for Skype and the audio remains the best I’ve found. As for the rest of the features, I don’t know (or see) enough people on GoogleTalk that I know who I don’t find on my BlackBerry’s Messenger, SightSpeed, AOL’s AIM, or Yahoo … Read more
I couldn’t be happier as for some really nice people at iotum and Grand Central yesterday as both companies, along with 13 others made the Fierce VoIP 15. The reason I’m happy is from the start of things I have been telling both Alec Saunders and Howard Thaw, iotum’s co-founders and Grand Central’s co-founders Craig … Read more
Let me pre-text this one. For years I’ve always thought that Sylantro was a company with great technology that couldn’t decide if it was an Applications Server or Softswitch company. Well maybe a new CEO will help. I just learned that tomorrow Sylantro Systems will announce the appointment of Marco Limena to president and CEO. … Read more
I’ve been a user of both Verizon and Sprint’s EvDO services off and on since their roll out. While a local San Diego company Novatel makes lots of the cards that work with EvDO the problem isn’t the cards Russell has his concerns and I have mine. From day one Qualcomm has built a great … Read more
Check out the new blog that the GigaOm network has started, and look who it is starring. Russell Shaw who last week left VON Magazine as a featured editor and columnist has made the leap. Given Russell’s proficiency for cranking out really great content, this is one that becomes a must read on everybody’s blog … Read more
Never first, usually not second, but always a tour de force, Microsoft has signaled the market that they plan on making a huge push in 2007 in the VoIP and Video Communications sector. What does this mean? Well likely in January Microsoft will begin to show off some consumer VoIP products in a big way … Read more
