Over the weekend the Telecom Law Monitor, a blog from the telecom practice group of Washington D.C. based Kelly Drye caught my eye when I spied that MagicJack's sister/parent company, YMAX and AT&T were embroiled in a battle over, you guessed it. MONEY. For a long time many observers were trying to figure out just how … Read more
Image via CrunchBase Today's announcement of Level3 buying GlobalCrossing is a big deal in telecom. Rather than rehash the very saliant points made by Stacey Higginbotham of GigaOm let me go into some analysis: Level3 picks up a ton of similar technology based capacity and routes for their network. Thus customers who have been using both Level3 … Read more
Paltalk is one of those companies that keeps on ticking. They have a reported 70 million users, many of which are part of niche communities. Now they are adding texting and voice calling on mobile devices, starting with the Apple iOS series (iPhone, iPod touch and iPads) similar to so many other voice over WiFi and … Read more
One of the take-a-ways from the Skype living workplace survey was the point about the communications tool that is expected to have the biggest gain in usage next year will be video calling. This is not a stat to be taken lightly. And it's not all about Skype. Apple's FaceTime, Logitech's SightSpeed (a former client), client … Read more
If AT&T offers more bars in more places, T-Mobile is the mobile operator with more speed in more places. As of today they have added more markets to their "4G" network bringing it to 10 more markets, which means they estimate that their "4G" network now reaches 167 markets and more than 200 million people nationwide in … Read more
If you're in the UK with an iPad, or iPad2, mobile operator o2 has a gift for you that gives you more than the regular iPad data plan they offer. Now through April 14, if you top up your iPad they'll give you an extra GB of data use for your device starting on April … Read more
Image via CrunchBase I don't get it. Or really, corporate boards and senior management don't get it. There's Apple. And then there's everybody else. Apple is a different kind of company. They think different. They plan their products better and they execute better. It's that simple. They are product marketers first, and figure out which … Read more
eComm founder, Lee Dryburgh, explains in a very passionately written post what’s up with eComm 2011 in a very personal way. I have already promised Lee the support of my agency again to manage the influencer relations sector, and hope others jump in as well to support him where he needs help. eComm is about … Read more
Image via Wikipedia I'll admit, that I love to go to Starbucks as my "get away" from the home office office. Meeting are easy to arrange at their locations, as most people in the technology world know where one is. So of late, after returning from my exhaustive 6 week European business trip and mini-vacation, … Read more
Jaunted is reporting that Skype is testing phone booths in Estonia. But it sounds like it’s part of a more involved plan to further disintermediate the traditional telcos who have seen their revenues from coin operated telephones erode at airports, as most of that traffic has moved to cellular/mobile phones. With Skype Access agreements in … Read more
