The Comunicano Communique Over the weekend my Switch app Switched to Dialpad. Long time voice over IP mavens will recall the company that was one of of the pioneers in VOIP competing with DeltaThree, MediaRing and Net2Phone for Voice traffic as an alternative to the PSTN. This weekend, pal … Read more
Craig Walker may quickly be finding his face on someone’s “Most Wanted List.” Given his most recent move at his GV (Google Ventures) and A16Z backed startup, he’ll possibly be thought of as the this Internet era’s Willie Sutton, Clyde Barrow or John Dillinger after what he just pulled off this weekend. That and adding … Read more
The Comunicano Communique It's no surprise that this week the Amazon Echo is the darling of the news this week or that my pals at Telzio announced their start of integration with the Echo. Now we're seeing more and more reasons coming out about how voice is the next … Read more
I've been covering Voice over IP for what is now going on 13 years. Along the way we've come into contact with dozens upon dozens of brands, services, idea and applications. Many are still around, some with their original names, others with new names. Some of the technology has found its way into other services, … Read more
The Comunicano Communique Another Slice of Life Time….Yesterday local L.A. startup, Telzio announced details of their efforts that integrate their telephone service with the red the red-hot Amazon Echo. Seems their timing was spot-on as today Amazon has two new devices that are Echo focused. Check out pal Rich … Read more
The Comunicano Communique Slice of Life Time….I penned a piece over on Medium.com all about home delivery services. It's a six minute read. As for news, we have some Google news. Some travel news. Some other news. Oh, and it turns out I'm on Business Rockstars today-prerecorded-so give a … Read more
The Comunicano Communique Mobile World Congress started today in Barcelona. Usually I attend that event but the past two years I've skipped in as it's not a "startup" event really. Those take part around the fringes of it. The big stories coming out of it and from around … Read more
The Comunicano Communique Happy Sunday…..Facebook is going to disrupt sports and entertainment as we know it. Forget TMZ. Entertainment Tonight, Access Hollywood. ESPNs SportsCenter. Facebook with live, streaming video is now a live new outlet for real time news, sports and entertainment. How are they a news outlet? First, with their move … Read more
The Comunicano Communique Check out today's stories…….lots of good reading that's thought provoking. And not ONE about the Trump-Fox feud. You can read that everywhere else. Lots of really well written pieces on a variety of subjects that are relevant to many of you in different ways. Start Up? … Read more
The Comunicano Communique It's still a bit cold in Miami, and I'm off shortly to head to Fort Lauderdale for IT Expo and to catch up with the VoIP/WebRTC and Video crowd. On Wednesday I'm moderating a panel at 10, and then racing to catch my noon flight back … Read more
