Image via Wikipedia Android, Motorola and Verizon Wireless are about to have some egg on their face. Unlike Apple which underpromises, heck, they don't even promise, they just deliver, the trio are the force behind Android 3.0 and LTE here in the USA. Earlier this month, I noted how it was looking like the promised … Read more
Dean Bubley and Martin Geddes are Masters when it comes to interpreting what's what in voice and what's next in telecom. Now they're taking their show on the road with a series of "master classes" that start up in San Francisco the end of June. Dubbed "Future of Voice" the first three master classes will … Read more
Image by familiabv via Flickr One of my clients remarked yesterday, that he doesn't know anyone who travels as much as I do. And he may be right. But lately I've really been trying to stay "home" more here in the San Diego area. But of late I've been noticing more and more dropped calls … Read more
Image by jdlasica via Flickr The GigaOm crew have come up with their to 50 cloud innovators. The list, that was published this morning gives a nice overview of who the players are. Since I grew up in sports, the line "you can't tell the players without a scorecard" is rather apropos here, because almost … Read more
Image by brycej via Flickr He's been swamped making Calliflower a rock solid flat rate conferencing platform. And his blogging suffered. And now…HE's BACK. The he is Alec Saunders who for a while was spending more time running his business and a lot less time blogging. Well, he's back. And that's a good thing. Alec … Read more
Over at About.com Nadeem, who covers VoIP ponders the point that with Microsoft buying Skype we may see a Blackberry client from Skype. Well given the tight-fisted way RIM doles out access to the stack that lets you access WiFi, and the fact that some patents are in place around that, not to mention the … Read more
Image via Wikipedia My pal in London, Dean Bubley, is so insightful. Between he and Martin Geddes, when I'm over in London, the two are the master class leaders in delivering insight, perspective and opinion, or what I tend to call IPO in the realm of socialized media (i.e. using a blog, or other online … Read more
Telecom Law Monitor, from regulatory law firm Kelley Drye tells us that the FCC is telling VoIP and Broadband service providers to report outages or pay the fines. Basically this means that service providers are more and more being told to play on a level playing field with no distinction between legacy and next generation. … Read more
For years roaming on WiFi was Boingo and everybody else. And with everybody else the back office issues were immense. And for mobile operators who have a back office solution for mobile voice and data roaming there already were solutions that made things like authentication and settlement easy. Well not so for WiFi. That's why … Read more
Wired, Reuters and others are reporting that Skype is in talks at preliminary stages for various types of tie ups with FaceBook and Google. No surprise. In the past Google took a good hard look at Skype and bought Gizmo instead, but that doesn't keep the corporate development teams from kicking the tires. Ever since … Read more
