The iPad Mini

If I was Apple and I wanted to stay ahead of the rest of the industry I'd make the reported iPad Mini more than a tablet. I'd make it a phone.  The reason I suggest this is after using my Google Nexus 7" over the weekend using CounterPath's Bria for Android Tablet, the form factor … Read more

How Not To Work With Bloggers

The Next Web story about Samsung and their reported treatment of bloggers at the IFA is horrible. When compared what I did with the Nokia Blogger Relations Program from 2005-2010, where we supplied bloggers with N and some E series devices as part of a seeding program and then expanding the program to invite bloggers to attend Nokia World and … Read more

Skype Turns 9

With the holiday weekend some things fell through the cracks. One was the 9th birthday of Skype. To help depict their story Skype has released an infographic that highlights their various milestones throughout the years. Skype may have been the single most disruptive service ever to hit the telecommunications world. For starters Skype really defined the … Read more

Net Talk Duo Wi-Fi Means Your Landline ANYWHERE

Net Talk, a direct competitor in many ways to MagicJack but with many more features, options and capabilties, have come out with the Net Talk Duo Wi-Fi. It's jam-packed with all kinds of capabilities and goes into the territory of the OBI and PhoneGnome as well as OOMA in many ways. Like MagicJack it offers … Read more

Disney Parks Adding Free Wi-Fi

The Disney theme parks are known for customer service, and usually are ahead of the curve when it comes to deploying things that make for a better guest experience. Today the Orlando Sentinel reports that they are adding free Wi-Fi to their guest experiences. Wi-Fi is really helpful to guests because the size of the … Read more

Mobile Moves In the News

The Newark Star-Ledger, Triangle Business Journal and Wireless Week all covered the opening of client Truphone's new Engineering Center that's housed inside NJIT's Enterprise Development Center in Newark under the direction of longtime friend, Dr. Ed Guy who has been with Truphone since their earliest days. Truphone will be part of GigaOm's Mobilize later this month. Joikusoft, the … Read more

Boingo Drops 15 Airports

In what looks to be a either a major loss or a negotiation ploy, Boingo has notified Advanced Wireless Group (AWG) of the termination their roaming agreement that impacts 15 airports. With Boingo entering the advertising supported space, the two are now head to head in competition for airports and ad revnue, and until the ad-network … Read more

Nimbuzz Messenger Adds Nokia Lumia To Lineup

Windows 7 Nokia Lumia users now can have Nimbuzz Messenger on their smartphones.  Nimbuzz has rolled out the text and chat app, that also offers photo sharing that allows cross platform chatting with Facebook, GTalk, Yahoo Messenger and MSN Live Messenger friends and buddies for free. Given its cross platform and cross network, this puts it … Read more

AT&T’s FaceTime Fiasco

Not content to have lost face with the loss of T-Mobile via acquisition, AT&T has come out with its rationale on why it will force people who want to use FaceTime over the 3G/4G/LTE network into a share plan, and in doing so, is getting just crucified in the press.  Let's start with Stacy Higginbotham … Read more