Talk about cool, the Seattle Times has tipped me off to a very neat and somewhat new Bluetooth accessory that makes talking easier on a PC. It’s from Kensington and is the new Buetooth VoIP Internet Phone from Kensington. Now I have yet to try it, so I won’t say how good it is, but … Read more
A few weeks ago it was the Wall Street Journal giving attention to client Truphone. Now it’s the New York Times’ Practical Traveler. While the report is not glowing, its feedback like that which makes companies take notice and address the comments, first internally, then externally. Candidly, I’ve yet to have any issues with Truphone … Read more
Jonathan Greene reports his hotel bandwidth is quite poor. He’s staying at the Sheraton Harbor Island in San Diego for the Demo 2008 Conference. This is a hotel that is located directly across the street from the San Diego Airport and is very close to one of the main fiber rings in San Diego. Access … Read more
Stacey Higginbotham of GigaOm has a read worth piece up about a novel use of VoIP by a service called Cause Caller. What’s interesting about the post is that it validates an idea I gave to the former investors in Pingtel and also the same idea I suggested to pal Alec Suanders some time back. … Read more
A company I’m rather fond of is iSkoot. They make the client that works on the SkypePhone that I use when I’m in the UK. Well today VentureBeat is reporting how iSkoot is getting more social, and in my view moving away from simply being a Skype connectivity client making company and into a lot … Read more
Earlier this week I alluded to the fact that Tesco would be coming out with a VoIP play that was based on their Freshtel acquisition as they’ve been selling FreshTel for sometime in the UK as a reader also commented. Now today, the other shoe dropped and is it an ever inviting whopper. I say … Read more
Give pal Paul Kapustka credit for being all over the WiMax story. He has the goods on where Xohm will roll out after it’s initial launch. Philadelphia, Boston and Dallas are tee’d up.
While not a surprise to many in the Mobile VoIP space, Tesco has launched their Freshtel Mobile VoIP service in Australia. Now here’s my speculation. Australia is a wonderful market to trial things in. The country has very solid IP networks from Telstra. It is an English language country. Mobile is well thought of there … Read more
For those of you who have discovered just how wonderful those new Asus EEE PCs are as laptop substitutes but wanted to make them connect with all the latest and greatest data cards (like the Novatel Merlin MC950D which I use, but didn’t want to learn how to deal with Linux OS, nor buy the … Read more
I’m always happy to see another “Brother of the Road” posts about their Road Warrior Travel Experiences, especially when they get down and really test out things. On these two posts Ricky shares his experiences with SightSpeed (an agency client) and with USB rechargeable batters (AA for now). What I liked about his review is … Read more
