Should Google Voice Open Up?

Image via CrunchBase I was around just after Craig Walker and Vincent Paquet created and launched GrandCentral, which became post acquistion by Google, GoogleVoice. We worked with the two and helped make it a known qualtity, and to this day, my GV number is the number that makes me so easily reachable. But in over … Read more

Will Microsoft Buy Nokia? They Should

Image via CrunchBase Image via CrunchBase A rumor is making the rounds about Microsoft buying Nokia and long time mobile industry watchers over at the Yankee Group are biting.  To be fully transparent, as a former agency to Nokia (I devised and my agency managed their groundbreaking and highly successful Nokia Blogger Relations program in … Read more

Building the Case for VoIP Based E911

E911 for emergency calls and VoIP have had a love/hate relatiobship for many years, but as Intenet based calling becomes more and more the norm, and as LTE will bring IP based calling (i.e. VoIP) to the mobile world for real, E911 and the problems associated with it will come to the forefront more and … Read more

Inventive Use of WiFi to Attract Customers

Image via Wikipedia The Japanese are very inventive and now they're dispensing WiFi via vending machines. And the price, well it's free.  What this really is all about is the data in the machines being sent back to the distribution centers over an Internet connection, but the machine at the location can do more than dispense … Read more

Video Conferencing Will Save Money

According to the U.S. Interior Department, their staff can save millions of dollars avoiding flights to places like Denver, Sacramento and other state capitals. That's not telling people like you and I anything new. We've all know that and likely practice it more and more. So lets get a few definitions on the table.. 1. … Read more

Microsoft and Level 3-The Next Mobile Operator (for Enterprise Customers)

Level3's blog may be tipping us off to more than Microsoft may have liked. In their year end post about voice predictions for 2012 there is a casual reference to the mobile client of their UC product, Lync, but the "tell" is based upon a "one number" solution. So let's speculate. When you think about … Read more