Having just seen Jonathan Christensen of Skype at the recent Open Mobile Summit on a panel with Om Malik and a few others last week, I felt it was timely to bring up Skype’s participation at eComm in March. Lee Dryburgh posted a note announcing the news earlier in the week and I wanted to … Read more
According to my sources the first choice of which IM client for XOBNI to integrate with was Skype hands down as Skype was far and away the most used Instant Messaging platform that the XOBNI users are on. Unfortunately with no Mac version in sight, I can only drool over pal Jeff Bonforte’s company’s email … Read more
Michael Graves has what he calls a rant on softphones. I call it a good recap on the state of the sector that is just begging for a winner. While he omitted Gizmo5 from SipPhone, he sure gave CounterPath’s EyeBeam the Texas style whoopin’ they deserve. Despite starting out as the best and most useful … Read more
I was whipping through my TweetDeck Tweets last night when I came across a random note about a new app from Google’s Code, a place where Google developers hang out and put out all kinds of things. What caught my eye was something that seems so simple one has to wonder why it took this … Read more
Ribbit has launched their new platform at Adobe Max today. Mashable has the details. My take: Open platforms are becoming more and more the new way of doing business. Open networks on the other hand don’t yet exist really, other than the public internet. While carriers “speak” open, they really are not that “open.” And … Read more
My colleague, valley legend and master of the message, Bill Ryan, calls the what we do, “groom to flip” and the New York Times has the state of the industry pegged perfectly when they wrote up the recent VAPPS acquisition of by Citrix. Nowadays companies that are venture backed are no longer IPO candidates that … Read more
Last week it was airports being added by Boingo. This week they’ve added ferries and ferry terminals in Washington State. As PhoneBoy points out, the costs have been lowered and subscribers immediately gain access to the entire Boingo network around the globe. The official announcement is here while the maven of all things WiFi, Glenn … Read more
This week is a busy week, and there’s no relief in sight. That’s a good thing as this Wednesday and Thursday in San Francisco is the Open Mobile Summit. It’s really shaping up to be something of interest to me, as the idea of Open seems to have many definitions. It’s sort of like “unlimited.”
Motorola is clearly not just thinking about cellular phones these days. They’re busily moving into a full blown WiFi VoIP handset that works with a very robust server and lots of security features.
In looking over the line up of today’s Under The Radar I’m quite happy to see the number of voice apps there. If Web 2.0 was 2007, it’s clear that in 2008 Voice has become the word of the day, and in 2009 making money is what we will start to see. Companies like Mobivox, … Read more
