I arrived in Milan at the Malpensa Airport planning on buying a local SIM to trial against my Truphone SIM. Sadly, finding anything other than a full size or Micro SIM was not in the cards this Sunday morning. Fortunately, I already had a TIM SIM that still had about 11 Euros of credit that … Read more
Image via CrunchBase I read today on Pocket-Lint how Skype is slowly rolling out video messaging. WOW. What a non-starter. Back in the mid 2000's when we worked with SightSpeed that was one of the standard features in what has to be now viewed as one of the original cloud or hosted video communications platforms. … Read more
So Facebook is again trying to become a bigger part of people's lives with free member to member calling in the USA. That means they're still not doing what Skype does, but this is today. What Facebook is doing is pretty much ICQ era presence and ICQ era voice calling. See the person online, connect and talk. … Read more
My friends have arrived in Lisbon, well some of them anyway, and where a few years ago BlackBerry BBM was the way we all would have been staying in touch what seems to be the common denominator isn’t even the globally popular WhatsApp, the OTT SMS service, but instead its Apple’s iMessage. And, its not … Read more
After almost two years of using SFR on iPhones in a prepaid environment that started with an iPhone 3G and on everyone iPhone since, yesterday when I used my top up recharge coupon, nothing happened. Well actually a lot did.First the online system was giving me a different audio message. Then the top up/recharge worked … Read more
First thing I did on Saturday after an amazing overnight flight from LAX to London’s Heathrow airport and checking into the Heathrow Sofitel, the property that is on my short list of great airport hotels, just behind Munich’s Kempenski, was find a nano data only SIM for my iPad Mini. That led too a short … Read more
SMS, the texting service found on mobile phones, which now has connectivity making its way into the landline and desktop world is rumored to be going away. Well, I think rumors of its decline are not being properly portrayed as mobile operator based SMS will decline due to one reason. Alternatives that offer more, but … Read more
There weren’t many left, but those that were worked really well. I’m referring to the T-Mobile Hotspots that once dotted the USA inside hotels, Starbucks coffee shops and airline clubs. The speeds were awesome and other than some initial early day access issues, connectivity was a snap to get on the network. In many cases, … Read more
Latin America and the Caribbean (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Image via CrunchBase If there's one market that is underdeveloped when it comes to high speed mobile wireless, its Latin America (LATAM.) That's what came out of a report back in November that Qualcomm shared on its November 15th Analyst's Day according to Fortune. Related articles … Read more
The air is full of mist, and the sky is full of fog. Not exactly the night to drive far for dinner, so fortunately Pamplemousse Grille is in striking distance, and they are serving truffles on the menu. The full menu is $300 for four courses, but I have a better idea. The Herbed Gnocchi … Read more
