Wired.com’ s Ryan Singel in Epicenter has a very detailed account of Silicon Valley Wi-Fi hardware provider Ruckus, and how their equipment is changing the wireless landscape. In a nutshell, Singel reports on how the new Ruckus technology makes public space Wi-Fi work and also sheds light on why earlier efforts never did. As someone … Read more
Video is making strides forward and it’s not in the corporate sector, yet. It’s in the personal sector. More and more people each day are using video in their one on one communications, largely due to apps like Skype, Sightspeed, ooVoo and DimDim. But the biggest accelerator is FaceTime which more and more often I’m … Read more
Time Warner Cable is now testing faster speed, unlimited VoIP and HD video in Charlotte, NC. This brings with it higher prices. Here’s what this means: 1. Docsis 3.0 is here. All the major cable MSOs are starting to roll it out. 2. Watch for more cable cutting by people who watch what they want … Read more
Cisco recently launch UMI, their version of TV set video calling. Today, one of the VoIPWatch Voyeurs spied just watch the Silicon Valley giant is doing in Atlanta at the Lenox Square Mall to market UMI. This is called experiential marketing and for Cisco it means following what mobile operators have done for years to … Read more
Well last week the cable guys came out and replaced my cable modem and gave me an upgrade to DOCSIS 3.0. As a business customer of CoxBusiness I learned a few years ago that we just get treated better than the residential customers, so the extra $60.00 a month or so has never been a … Read more
Last month, GigaOM posted the news that Apple is working with SIM card manufacturer Gemalto to cut out the carriers. A new embedded SIM card from Gemalto would allow the loading of the operator-specific data onto the SIM after the phone was purchase. This week, there was news of the GSMA working to allow this … Read more
A survey in the UK shows that a lot of Brits will be looking to connect to the net with a mobile device. That’s giving rise to the sale of pocketspots, also known as the MiFi. As someone who uses both data dongles and 3G/4G Pocketspots from Novatel Wireless and the Sprint Overdrive made by … Read more
A survey in the UK shows that a lot of Brits will be looking to connect to the net with a mobile device. That’s giving rise to the sale of pocketspots, also known as the MiFi. As someone who uses both data dongles and 3G/4G Pocketspots from Novatel Wireless and the Sprint Overdrive made by … Read more
Tom Keating drew my attention to Konnect, a new Peer 2 Peer telephony system. Years back one of my first VoIP clients inside my agency was a company called Popular Telephony. The company fell on hard times and the intellectual property was eventually sold off for very little money. The idea was simple. A P2P … Read more
Dear Prudence, It was a Long and Winding Road, but today Apple decided they could just Let It Be. Yes I know. the service’s application that almost started a Revolution and wasn’t available Yesterday has surfaced today for real, and nobody had to hold a Revolver to anyone’s head to make it happen. I mean, … Read more
