A few weeks ago it was the Wall Street Journal giving attention to client Truphone. Now it’s the New York Times’ Practical Traveler. While the report is not glowing, its feedback like that which makes companies take notice and address the comments, first internally, then externally. Candidly, I’ve yet to have any issues with Truphone … Read more
Stacey Higginbotham of GigaOm has a read worth piece up about a novel use of VoIP by a service called Cause Caller. What’s interesting about the post is that it validates an idea I gave to the former investors in Pingtel and also the same idea I suggested to pal Alec Suanders some time back. … Read more
A company I’m rather fond of is iSkoot. They make the client that works on the SkypePhone that I use when I’m in the UK. Well today VentureBeat is reporting how iSkoot is getting more social, and in my view moving away from simply being a Skype connectivity client making company and into a lot … Read more
Earlier this week I alluded to the fact that Tesco would be coming out with a VoIP play that was based on their Freshtel acquisition as they’ve been selling FreshTel for sometime in the UK as a reader also commented. Now today, the other shoe dropped and is it an ever inviting whopper. I say … Read more
This story in the Register is very, very disturbing. Not only does it replicate a few emails from both friends and readers about the dramatic drop off in customer service as Skype has grown to the size they have, but it also seems to underscores possible flaws in the eBay architecture overall since both Skype … Read more
Give pal Paul Kapustka credit for being all over the WiMax story. He has the goods on where Xohm will roll out after it’s initial launch. Philadelphia, Boston and Dallas are tee’d up.
While not a surprise to many in the Mobile VoIP space, Tesco has launched their Freshtel Mobile VoIP service in Australia. Now here’s my speculation. Australia is a wonderful market to trial things in. The country has very solid IP networks from Telstra. It is an English language country. Mobile is well thought of there … Read more
Today I mashed up the recently updated Boingo Mobile client (which works on Nokia N and E series phones, the Nokia N810 Internet Tablet and Window Mobile devices) on my Nokia E71 Smartphone (North American Edition) from inside my hotel room. The hotel is powered by iBahn, one of the Boingo roaming partners. I grabbed … Read more
It’s been a banner year for Skokie, IL based Comunicano client ifByPhone. For the second time in a few months the Chicago Sun Times has poked there head in the direction of Irv Shapiro and each time the story has been glowing. As the story says ifByPhone “software applications let small businesses set up virtual … Read more
PC World reports that the long awaited 802.11r standard has been finalized and approved by the IEEE, the standards body that determines much of what goes into our personal electronics and communications equipment. This means that finally WiFi phones can really come into their own, and that roaming between hotspots and even networks becomes much … Read more
