It’s October 1st and that means it’s time to look at the calendar. It’s hard to believe it has been for me a month since I’ve flown more than up and down the State of California (from LAX to SFO train to SMF, plane to SAN, back to SMF-Sacramento) and home again to SAN. While … Read more
Friend, colleague and client, Alec Saunders and the team at iotum have been steadily adding more and more to the Voice 2.0 conferencing platform, affectionately named Calliflower. His recap gives a very good indication of where things are going, not only with Calliflower, but with conferencing in general. Robert Poe, over at his new blog, … Read more
Pal Luca broke the news about Tiscali, a broadband and MVNO operator whose deployment of the new WiPhone app, not to be confused with iPhone, that enables their users to make WiFi phone calls ala client Truphone. I keep hearing rumors of other GSM players entering the WiFi phone call market just as we have … Read more
If you look at the map on the Communications Workers of America’s SpeedtestReport website and live on fast Internet, you have to be shocked at what can best be described as the deployment of real broadband in the USA, and more shocked at what the nationwide operators deliver. Living in a major tech hotbed like … Read more
Doug Mohney pointed out that for $370 a month in the Twin Cities folks can begin to receive 100 megabyte speeds on downloads and 15 meg uploads. Not everyone needs that. But as someone who enjoys 50/50 from SureWest in Sacramento at my wife’s house I can sure appreciate the thought, but do question the … Read more
Let’s face it, the bNet article on Apple and their recent market entry announcement for new iPods is a very accurate depiction of the result of the launch. This is not a reflection on the products from Apple, but a result of the company being distracted and the messaging being diffused. This happens because despite … Read more
Give Om Malik lots of credit. On the heels of his super successful Mobilize Conference yesterday he’s breaking the news on Skype winding down it’s extra’s program. This likely means two things: 1) Skype is going to internalize more development 2) Skype will begin offering more services that are labeled as Skype, vs. from third … Read more
Former YAHOO Senior VP Brad Garlinghouse has reemerged and will be leading AOL’s Silicon Valley operations, with the title ofPresident of Internet and Mobile Communications and reporting directly to Tim Armstrong, a position he’s very well qualified for. What was very interesting in reading the announcement was his most recent role with Silver Lake Partners … Read more
As a fan of what I dubbed “PocketSpots” sometime back, it’s great to see the mobile operators around the globe beginning to embrace the little darlings. UMPC Portal is pointing out that Vodafone Germany is offering a bundle deal where for 40 Euro per month customers receive a 5GB HSDPA contract and the device for … Read more
As a fan of what I dubbed “PocketSpots” sometime back, it’s great to see the mobile operators around the globe beginning to embrace the little darlings. UMPC Portal is pointing out that Vodafone Germany is offering a bundle deal where for 40 Euro per month customers receive a 5GB HSDPA contract and the device for … Read more
