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
Image by mohamedn via Flickr Since 1998, Ken Rutkowski and I have co-hosted KenRadio's World Technology Roundup, and while we've been missing for a few weeks due to Ken's travel and mine, I can't pass up this opportunity to wish him a Happy Birthday.
Image via CrunchBase Last week the world saw that Amazon Web Services EC2 went down, wrecking havoc with many so called Cloud based startups. Later in the week I fell victim to the JungleDisk DNS outage, and while Rackspace which manages JungleDisk, even though my data sits on Amazon,was able to maintain data integrity, the … Read more
Cisco wants you to know why Unified Communications is in your future…and here are six reasons why.
Image by Getty Images via @daylife A new survey out today out from Skype shows that the popularity of remote working – or “teleworking” – is on the rise, and it’s being fueled by the advent of new technologies we’re all using and the perceived benefits that employers are seeing, including higher productivity and employee … Read more
