The crusty John C. Dvorak has been a fixture in PC Magazine for many years. This week he penned a piece about Google Voice and free calling. In the opinion column John raised a few points that need to be expounded upon, and I’m in the kind of mood to do just that! Point One: … Read more
The news, which we all have been waiting for, is now official. Gizmo has joined up with GoogleVoice, as a result of the acquisition by Google, that went official today. There’s a lot I could say, but in an article based on an exclusive interview with Wired’s Ryan Singel yesterday, much of what I would … Read more
First off, congratulations to the team at SipPhone, the company behind Gizmo, and especially to neighbor Michael Robertson who has according to all accounts sold the company to Google for $30,000,000 dollars. All the world is waiting for is the official announcement, but here’s what I have learned from sources other than Robertson, who has … Read more
Traveling to Seoul Korea meant that being savvy and frugal with my mobile usage. I took along a battery of phones, but really at the end of the day ended up using my RIM Blackberries to stay connected most of the time. Sure I used the Nokia E71 with Truphone, but I wanted to put … Read more
Yesterday at VoiceCon in SF a debate between industry pundits ensued over the potential of cutting the cord in the enterprise market. My take is we will start to see more and more use of mobile convergence devices from the likes of RIM, Nokia and especially Android. Here’s why. Cost. WiFi is cheaper to install … Read more
Om Malik, who has longstanding relationships in the investment community and has tossed aside his managerial role at GigaOm to do what he loves best, be a reporter, dropped a bombshell last night with initial details that Skype’s current management and the founders of Skype may be closing in on a settlement surrounding the JoltID … Read more
The MiFi from Novatel Wireless, one of San Diego’s leading technology companies, is hands down my product of the year. As an avid road warrior, their MiFi Pocketspot has become my hotspot anywhere I need Internet access, not only in the USA, but around the globe, as I have both an unlocked GSM device and … Read more
Gary Kim, who has been in and through the VoIP wars has a very interesting take of How Not To Sell Hosted Voice. In many ways this is Sales 101, and it highlights what I like to call the “engineering sale” vs. the “marketing sale” that plagues many a VoIP company. Too often the sale … Read more
Ian Bell’s commentary about SIP being Skype’s savior (or not) is worth a read, especially on a lazy Sunday like today. Worth checking out if you want something cheaper than Skype comes from a San Diego company that was started by my neighbor and his sons. TelCentris operates VoxOx, and they just announced some new … Read more
Somewhere far, far away, in the heavens above my parents and two of my first two mentors in business, Sy Roseman and Ken Gesner, are smiling and hoisting back the finest 1959 wine they can find, because as of Friday, I now run an “award winning communications agency” called Comunicano, which that afternoon in Amsterdam … Read more
