How Design Influences Travel Experience

The web site Future Travel Experience gives us a good look at what may be possible for our air travel, from check in to exiting the airport, exposing what we will be seeing and feeling. Much of this "experience" derives from design, which is all about setting up the "user experience" that we desire. Unfortunately, often … Read more

The Comunicano Daily for Thursday November 13, 2014

    The Comunicano Daily       After a hiatus, The Comunicano Daily is back. Today, we'll lead off with what is a stellar review by ZDNET's Matt Miller about client Sonim's new XP7 AndroidSmartphone.  Back in 2005 when Comunicano launched the Nokia Blogger Relations Program Matt was one of the first "pro" bloggers we contacted because … Read more

Brands Want You To Buy Your Loyalty

I'll be the first to admit that I've lost my love of brand loyalty programs. You know, the ones like American Airlines Advantage that pretty much kicked it all off. Well now, American and Southwest in the past two days have both offered to boost my status by my buying my loyalty level.  To me … Read more

Time To Dust Off Working Anywhere

Up until three years ago, I used to blog about the idea of Working Anywhere. About the same time I stopped, I started to travel even more than I did before, more than doubling may annual days on the road.  As a global nomad I learned a lot about how to work on the road, … Read more

My Take on Marriott Fined $600K for Blocking WiFi Hotspots

This comes out of the "stupid is as stupid does" department as clealy, someone inside Marriott's legal department, which is likely based right inside the Capital Beltway, doesn't know the basics of the Communications Act of 1934 nor the simple fact that jamming or causing interference that prevents reception of signals being sent over licensed … Read more

My First HD Voice Over Mobile Call

You have to hand it to T-Mobile and Apple. The Apple iOS 8 update includes updates that enable both VoLTE and HD Voice for users of the iPhone 5C, 5S and starting tomorrow, the 6 and 6 Plus smartphones. And, as a result I had my first HD Voice call that was over Mobile, and … Read more

Why the Apple Watch isn’t the iWatch

Apple announced the Watch yesterday and the didn't call it the iWatch. For starters there are too many trademark issues surrounding the iWatch name to go there, but to me there are other reasons. 1. Apple wants to be in the Watch business 2. Apple wants to sell the Watch via normal watch channels, further … Read more

1999 Chateau de Beaucastel Chateauneuf du Pape

The other night with friends at the house I grabbed some gluten free pizza and a few other tasty treats from Urban Pi, a really good modern era pizzeria. My first wine was a really good 1999 Gigondas but honestly, I forgot the name of the producer but it was so good, I went hunting … Read more