With AOL buying the Huffington Post we're seeing the start of a media buying media spree. This is all about ad serving, not about content. Don't be deceived. AOL's future is in serving up ads something they are deperately trying to do by aggregating pop-culture content on a global level and with Patch.com on a … Read more
Image via CrunchBase James Kendrick, who left JK On The Run at GigaOm for a more focused writing role at ZD-Net at the end of last year comments on the 16 percent return rate in the USA for the Samsung Galaxy Tab, tablet device being sold around the globe. James cites the 2 year locked … Read more
Image via Wikipedia Gizmodo has taken a look at the recent news from Google and the opportunity in the USA to port your mobile number to Google Voice and presented the pros and cons. In my view if you're using an Android phone, then the deeper integration of GV makes it less of a hurdle, … Read more
My friend Larry Lisser, with whom we’ve helped exit Mobivox to Sabse and have collaborated on a few other startups together directly and indirectly (Momentum Telecom, IfByPhone and Fonolo) had a big idea a bit more than a year ago when he came up with the concept of Startup Camp Telephony, that would be run … Read more
Image via Wikipedia The new Apple iPhone for Verizon is going to cause a shift in the the collaboration market, as services from Citrix's GoToMeeting, Cisco's WebEx and pal Alec Saunders company, Calliflower all have been building what the future needs, not living in the past. One of the major FUDs being spread by GSM … Read more
Image via CrunchBase One of the things I love about my friend Peter Csathy, a reformed Harvard Law School grad, is that he never forgot how to build his case and tell it so he can go out and sell it. After working with Peter for four years on SightSpeed, where he led them to … Read more
Image via CrunchBase No one has spilled the beans but here's a SWAG before flying off for CES this week. Skype, Verizon and Samsung could announce Video on the Galaxy Tab-LTE edition at CES whenever it's convenient, likely on Wednesday or possibly Thursday. Here's what leads me to that conclusion. 1. Skype has been working … Read more
GoogleVoice (aka GrandCentral) is clearly the gift that keeps on giving. While my earn out payments have come to an end, it’s great to see that its still going to be free for calls to the USA and Canada in 2011. Hat tip-Charles Hamilton, GigaOm.
There’s a revolution going on in voice communications, and it’s all about HD Voice. Today, in the UK, Orange (press release), one of the largest mobile operators in the world unveiled their new HD Voice service that works on a small number of handsets from Nokia and Samsung that move the voice traffic over the … Read more
Lee Dryburgh is putting together another bang up eComm conference under the banner this April, and my agency, Comunicano, and I are proud to be able to support it as an official sponsor. The big news is how Lee has also been able to assemble a conference on the subject of Augmented Reality at the … Read more
