Is Skype in Play?

TechCrunch’s fearless leader Michael Arrington is reporting that Mark Andressen’s venture fund is looking to be a part of a larger consortium of investors that wants to buy Skype before eBay spins it out as an IPO. While this could be a short term win for eBay, a company that I’m convinced has the blind … Read more

Apple iPhone Bug Isn’t Truphone’s Problem

I’m posting is a Public Service Announcement but also since Truphone is my agency’s client we felt the important thing to do is get the right information out as far and wide as possible. This afternoon this afternoon Truphone sent an emailout to its customers explaining that Truphone knows of a bug issue with the … Read more

MaxRoam in a Hostel Takeover

Pat Phelan just let me know his company MaxRoam has taken over the hostel industry when it comes to travel SIMs. As many of you know Pat is one of the most visible and hard working people in the next generation communications world and he’s been busy putting a bunch of distribution deals together for … Read more

We Make More and Pay More

I’m not surprised that we pay more in the USA, lots more, for mobile phone services, as CNET’s Maggie Reardon writes. We also pay more for broadband services..and we get lots less. Our bandwidth speeds are slower than other western countries and our wireless networks don’t really achieve what’s possible due largely to over saturation … Read more

iPhone VoIP Clients

The folks at VoIP Users Conference tend to be on the cutting edge of what’s out there in VoIP and toying with the iPhone is not far from their targets. This weekend I came across a post that lists three applications that are designed to work. By reading their post you’ll save time and buy … Read more