Earlier today I received an email from a reader contending that GUAVA was written with code that was purloined. Rather than let this issue fester, I went to Gizmo5 founder Michael Robertson to help set the record straight. Robertson, who has been a strong proponent of open source technology since his MP3 era was quick … Read more
MaxRoam’s Pat Phelan let me in on some news tonight. Global Roaming Solutions Ltd (Hong Kong) and Cubic Telecom (Ireland) are announcing a new mobile roaming SIM card that will save consumers money over their usual mobile bills. Dubbed Buzzroam, this becomes is the first GSM SIM card available in Asia which provides access to … Read more
I’m a rabid user of client Nokia’s E71 so you can bet I’m just chomping at the bit at the next generation E72 which now is with the FCC.
New York legislators are going to get a good old country whippen, if they’re not carful. Talk about bait and switch. Wow. Every month New Yawkers shell out .70 cents on their cell phone bill (and that’s going up to $1.20 soon) per mobile number to support 911 services, so you would think the money … Read more
Tom Keating picked up on the recent Nimbuzz Mac client announcement which I missed last week. I suspect that we’ll see a lot more in the area of softphones, especially on the Mac. To date most softphones have been designed for PCs and then ported. In the next few months we’ll likely see some native … Read more
I was on the phone this week with the Big Boss Man at TMC, pal Rich Tehrani going over a few things when I realized we’re about six weeks away from IT Expo in Los Angeles in September. With it the IP Communications industry has the start of another eight week period of pretty much … Read more
Yesterday I got wind of a Google Voice announcement. Om captured the details as have others. Here’s where I see the value here: 1) Take an unlocked Android out of the USA, use a local SIM, pay their low rates. 2) Point the GV number to a Truphone number and make calls at USA rates … Read more
Over the past week I’ve been shifting between T-Mobile (on my Nokia E71) as well as both Three and Vodafone for mobile data. For ease of use Three and T-Mobile on mobile handsets are simple and easy to deal with, and offer easy to follow pay as you go options for as little as a … Read more
It’s great to see pal Martin Geddes nominated by Global Telecoms magazine as one of the bright minds in telecom, but we all knew that already.
Om’s post about Amazon Wireless made me realize that what the USA lacks is Carphone Warehouse, the chain that you see everywhere in the UK and with a sister chain called The Phone House all over Europe. In the USA, the Carphone Warehouse model will come through via Best Buy, in their Best Buy Mobile … Read more
