Call this the reason Verizon has made New York City and the surrounding suburbs a key “must win” market for Fios and is starting to crank up the PR, Advertising and sales efforts. Cablevision is one of the largest cable operators in the country, but focuses only on the New York area, unlike the others … Read more
One of the semi-annual conferences I love to attend is held twice a year in London and organized by my friends at the STL Group, where Martin Geddes is found hanging his hat and providing very keen insight. Today in their newsletter I spied a posting entitled the Telco 2.0 Manifesto, a take off of … Read more
The Wall Street Journal has a story on Webcams being used in inventive ways. One is to keep an eye on a person’s vacation home, another is tied to a home alarm system. I’ve been doing something like that with the auto-answer feature of SightSpeed during the never ending phase of my house’s reconstruction. I … Read more
The sale of Ribbit to British Telecom, which was delayed for sometime for reasons likely having to do with internal matters, has apparently closed. 105 million is a pretty price, and I expect to see some other companies grabbed in the next few months as M&A activity is heating up. In the case of Ribbit … Read more
Telstra Clear looks very interesting from afar. It’s a hosted VoIP service designed for the five or more type offices. What I find interesting though is it is woven over the fabric of the telco network in New Zealand. This means integration from the core to the edge, and a single source provider. It’s what … Read more
For those of you who are mobile and just can’t stay in the office, I’ve posted my second in series of “Tools for Global Nomads” on my OTHER blog, called “Working Anywhere.” If you missed the first one, it can be found here. Why another blog some have asked? That’s simple. The nature of blogging … Read more
