Awarding Time

From the “It’s Rewarding Department.” The awards and recognition of my agency, Comunicano’s clients never seems to stop. TMC’s Comunications Solutions Product of the Year went to two of our firms innovative companies. iotum and SightSpeed. Congratulations to both companies hard working teams. Alec Saunders, pal, client and uber blogger has some thoughts on this.

EU To Standardize and Lower Roaming Rates

When the European Roaming Rate regulation, currently in published draft stage finally becomes law in the EU, consumers and transborder type who hop-scotch around the European continent will finally become happier. This is a measure that will clearly make life easier, but I fully expect the USA based GSM carriers to lag behind the EU’s … Read more

EU To Standardize and Lower Roaming Rates

When the European Roaming Rate regulation, currently in published draft stage finally becomes law in the EU, consumers and transborder type who hop-scotch around the European continent will finally become happier. This is a measure that will clearly make life easier, but I fully expect the USA based GSM carriers to lag behind the EU’s … Read more

Why Aren’t Hospitals Friendly

Jeff Pulver has a really good post about hospitals being less than visitor, or patient friendly when it comes to working there as a visitor. Hospital care in the USA though considered the model for the world is dropping. HMO’s, managed care, budget constraints and such are making even the most modern hospitals more like … Read more

Microsoft and Yahoo Begin Their Marriage

Will Yahoo become the first big time company to really effectively work with Microsoft. While posessing one of the broadest and biggest eco-systems in technology, over the years the Microsoft partners list has read like a whose who, what’s what in tech. Unfortunately the list is almost as long as ex VP’s at Microsoft who … Read more

CNET on Radio Handi

Radio Handi has been one of my favorite Voice 2.0 companies since I met the youthful founder Brian McConnell a few months back in San Francisco. Today CNET’S Rafe Needleman had a nice profile about them and all that it can do to make for better group communications.

The Next Generation of SightSpeed

I’ve been keeping this news from client SightSpeed under wraps, but there’s no keeping secrets from Om Malik, who now, out on his own is looking really to go after the big news and scoop the rest of the media via the GigaOm blog and his assembled team of reporters and bloggers, all of whom … Read more

Possibilities to Disrupt?

Om has opened the door to potentially a very, very, very disruptive play, using open source and standards based technology, tools and platforms. And the person he’s opened the door for is non other than my next town over neighbor, Michael “Golden Boy” Robertson, the father of Gizmo Project. The disruption though, may not first … Read more