While Stacey Higginbotham @ Gigaom is busily keeping a very careful eye on what the cable operators are going to do with metered bandwidth, I’ve been given thought to what they will do to really make money. The answer resides in how the MSO’s have always made money. Charging the newly minted content providers as … Read more
A UK company, CellCrypt is now offering secure mobile VoIP calling. For years people have always worried if their cell phone calls can be monitored. Those inside the industry know it was always possible. This solution sounds like another step in the right direction to protect your communications, as long as the algorithm includes the … Read more
Cameron Sinclair pens a piece about a new hipster style work spot called the “Hub Pavilion” that has opened in London this week, over on the Huffington Post. I think we are seeing the rise of the temporary office, networking “hub” and candidly think Starbucks really missed it. For many a year I referred to … Read more
Cameron Sinclair pens a piece about a new hipster style work spot called the “Hub Pavilion” that has opened in London this week, over on the Huffington Post. I think we are seeing the rise of the temporary office, networking “hub” and candidly think Starbucks missed it. For many a year I referred to Starbucks … Read more
Cameron Sinclair pens a piece about a new hipster style work spot called the “Hub Pavilion” that has opened in London this week, over on the Huffington Post. I think we are seeing the rise of the temporary office, networking “hub” and candidly think Starbucks really missed it. For many a year I referred to … Read more
I caught this story about Cisco’s ever expanding telepresence game over at TMCnet. On the surface it looks like Cisco PR in action, but digging to the bottom I spied these two factoids: Cisco TelePresence Recording Studio is an application that expands the application of Cisco TelePresence beyond meetings. It enables customers to create high-quality … Read more
Poor Skype. On the heels of their biggest launch ever since their inception, with the release of the iPhone client, a licensing issue around a piece of software, known as a Codec is preventing them from making the App available in Canada. That’s the good news, as that’s just a matter of negotiation and figuring … Read more
It looks like the SkypPhone2 has bit the dust with mobile operator 3 in favor of the newer and shinier Inq1. But they still do seem to be available in other 3 served countries like Australia. I’ve used the SkypePhone 1 and 2 but passed on grabbing an INQ1 simply because I don’t need more … Read more
Over the last few days as a lead up to CTIA in Las Vegas there has been a push from AT&T about video communications on mobile phones. Let’s start with the sleek Nokia E71x that promises two way video. Then there are the smartphone from Samsung which may be running Symbian I hear. This baby … Read more
With the recent announcement by Skype to have an open SIP Gateway (well its in beta) the door is now wide open for a direct route of calls coming to your Google Voice number to be routed directly into the Skype SIP gateway and to ring your Skype ID. All Google Voice has to do … Read more
