Move over Smartphone, a new sheriff is in town, and it’s called the Superphone. At least thats the moniker being plastered about via GigaOm’s founder Om Malik, who in an comprehensive overview is describing just what is going on in the smartphone/superphone market. The comment which caught my eye is his closing comment about M&A … Read more
It looks like we’re going to see the concept of paying for access to the Internet for some apps that cut into the revenue of the service providers. Today, MoCoNews is reporting in the Washington Post that T-Mobile Germany is going to charge 9.95 Euros to allow VoIP services to be accessed by their customers. … Read more
Last week TwitrCon was in SF was viewed as a hit, more because of the people in the room, than what was necessarily said on stage. Upcoming in this month is Jeff Pulver’s 140 Conference is happening on June 16 & 17 in New York City and it’s lining up to be something special. The … Read more
Mobile WiMax operator Clearwire has quietly begun offering service in Las Vegas.
I’m representing Vringo, one of the companies whose advisory boards I sit on next week at what is shaping up to be a very talent filled conference in Los Angeles. Dubbed, the Israel Conference, it is all about bringing the companies and technologies whom are both known and under the radar, which are looking to … Read more
Well it seems that just like in the gaming world, where Microsoft’s X Box Live has been racking up voice minutes for years, has seen Second Life roll out voice services to a point where 15 million minutes were consumed last year, at a rate of 700,000 users per month signing up. That’s faster than … Read more
Client Nokia is opening up it’s OVI Store in phases, starting in the Pacific Rim first and rolling the service out around the globe. The key here is diversity. Nokia will have apps for various models and platforms, with music, games and apps being a part of it.
Wired has a story about wireless Internet access, calling the questions as to why we have so little of it. It’s timely, especially in light of the nations (and likely the worlds) looming data network access crush wirelessly until fatter pipe access becomes more ubiquitous. Let’s start with some history. The mobile operators didn’t really … Read more
While I may be skeptical about a few other so called “data channel VoIP” that are being touted, this concept out of Israel and Syracuse, NY seems to fly. Based upon using unlicensed spectrum and deploying some kind of voice call continuity and roaming between WiFi hotspots the concept would appear to be plausible. In … Read more
Esme Vos has a post earlier this week about what I am calling the 3G Choke Point on Muni Wireless. As a PolyNetwork carrier user I’ve seen what the greed of AT&T, and the lagging T-Mobile has done here in the USA with 3G data, and how the very conservative, but far more better managed … Read more
