With applications like Palringo, Truphone, Nimbuzz, Fring all available in the iPhone/iPod App Store seeing that the sales of iPod Touch devices being so strong, makes my heart a flutter. I too bought two of these in the last few weeks, one for myself and one as a gift for my wife. I see the … Read more
Over in Korea where WiMax has been up and running under the WiBro monicker, we read that a standard for voice services has been set up, and that KT (Korea Telecom) is gearing up to deploy it. This news is excellent news for the Voice Service provider industry as it gives them a standard to … Read more
You can tell a lot by the way a company behaves in the media. Cisco, is one of those companies which knows how to sing a tune. It’s no coincidence that Cisco has two very interesting stories appear in different parts of the media today. It was planned. What’s more if you look closely at … Read more
The Unofficial Apple Weblog’s Aron Trimble has a series of tips that make the Apple iPhone an essential tool for the Road Warrior. I’ll add a few more apps that I like which make my road warrior like existence much easier to digest: Fight Stats–without question this helps keep track of what’s happening with your … Read more
I’m a fan of the concept of metro-wide WiFi and have been for some time. Unfortunately, the Earthlink model (which was really a model dreamed up by consultants) never worked. As a matter of fact, it failed. But there are some good examples of Muni or metro WiFi working, one of which is in the … Read more
Randall Stross of the New York Times has an excellent analysis and shows some very good reporting around the SMS industry and to what lengths the carriers will go to preserve what they have. In many ways this makes me think of Twitter and the value it would bring to a mobile operator, much the … Read more
I’m one of those fliers who remembers when GTE had seat back phones on airplanes and offered a flat fee for year’s use of calling. What a deal. But over time, the in seat phone, along with their not always perfect sound connection disappeared from the flying tubes. In today’s era we likely don’t need … Read more
For companies that sell their services solely based on VoIP in the middle, this move by Optus isn’t good news. In essence what Optus is doing and saying to their customers is if you’re their contractee, all calls go over the Optus network and the Optus long distance network. No dialing around. No call backs, … Read more
Over the past month or so, both in the USA and in Europe I’ve been a big user of public transportation. Whether it has been a cab, private town car, the light rail or even the underground/metro or subway, I’ve been taking advantage of whatever mode gets me where I need to go the quickest. … Read more
VoIP News’ Robert Poe picked 25 VoIP innovations he’s seen in 2008. I’m very pleased and have to agree with many of the picks, though I’m sure I could find a few more, many of which are on the business model side, versus the practical or cool. What I was pleased to see though was … Read more
