Normally when I’m at San Diego’s Lindbergh Field for a flight I’m used to amazingly fast download speeds. Not so today as I was waiting for Virgin America’s flight to SFO this morning. My download speeds were just pitiful, indicating either the network is overloaded or they airport is rate limiting the users. If it’s … Read more
Rafe Blandford, of All About Symbian, is someone I’ve gotten to know as a result of the Nokia Blogger Relations efforts over the past few years. He’s someone whose perspective on what is happening on Nokia Symbian based devices combines the understanding of a user, with the insight of an analyst and the why it … Read more
In what may be a controversial post with some pundits, Lee Dryburgh has gone out on a limb, picking up on a Phil Wolff meme to describe his passionate viewpoints and perspectives about what’s up with Skype in the future. Phil in turn captured Lee’s views and put them up on SkypeJournal. Dryburgh (whose event, … Read more
Chris Albrecht over at NewTeeVee has penned a piece on the plans of the cable giants to start to charge for online video. In a nutshell, they want to treat online video as premium channel like HBO, which means you pay more per month. This is not a surprise to me at all, as back … Read more
If you subscribe to the Wall Street Journal, either hard copy or online, today’s edition has Walt Mossberg’s review of the new Apple iPhone and OS 3.0. Apple always provides Walt an advance version of the phone, and his review tends to help set the stage for many things. Of what he didn’t like on … Read more
An interesting article out o Japan questions if FaceBook really even needs VoIP. My view is it does, but it’s really from the perspective of being a call trigger point, not a voice hosting platform. Services like Calliflower live well inside the Facebook world for group communications, but as far as building a calling service … Read more
Let’s face it. Before Apple released the iPhone mobile data was a “nice to have.” Apple made it a necessity. Before the iPhone, those of us who were using other devices, mostly Nokia or Windows Mobile handsets pretty much had free reign on the networks and the network data folks were pretty much the castoffs, … Read more
Client Global IP Solutions, which pretty much wrote the book on voice compression in the IP comms arena, landed Korea Telecom, now called KT, to provide the key piece of technology that will make the new Smartphone based on Windows Mobile sound good. P.S. To keep track of GIPS’s viewpoints on the emerging communications industry, … Read more
When I see a press release on PRWeb, sort of a no cost, low cost distribution service that few people follow compared to Business Wire or PR NewsWire, I always feel someone tried to “hide” the news. That’s the sense I have around the so called acquisition of Jaxtr by the founder of HotMail’s India … Read more
Move over Smartphone, a new sheriff is in town, and it’s called the Superphone. At least thats the moniker being plastered about via GigaOm’s founder Om Malik, who in an comprehensive overview is describing just what is going on in the smartphone/superphone market. The comment which caught my eye is his closing comment about M&A … Read more
