The potential merger announced last last night Bharti Airtel of India and the MTN Group of South Africa may have shocked some folks, but not me. I’m a big believer that just like with cable television and telephony here in the USA we’re going to be seeing more and more consolidation in the mobile world. … Read more
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
Never to be accused of standing still in any type of economy, networking giant Cisco is “getting” smaller. After years of struggling with what their mobile strategy will be, the company is figuring out how to take some of its core assets like WebEx and others and migrate them from the desktop to the mobile … Read more
Yesterday the buzz in the video publishing business was triggered by Sorenson Media with their new publishing platform, called 360. The name 360 implies complete and full circle, and for the video professional who needs a reliable, stable and trusted platform Sorenson’s new offering is geared to deliver that, something that Streaming Media’s Jan Ozer … Read more
Two posts this week about Skype and mobile operators by Om Malik and Rich Tehrani underscores why playing with your competition makes sense. What’s interesting is neither has had any first hand experience (that I know of) using the 3 Skype service in the UK as I have. If they did, they would have been … 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
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
Martin Suter of Bel-Air Networks has penned a very strong case for why Wi-Fi is really in my view the baseline that 4G should be measured with. One point that Martin left out of his well written and very factual account as to why WiFi is so important and a better performer than Mobile 3G … Read more
Martin Suter of Bel-Air Networks has penned a very strong case for why Wi-Fi is really in my view the baseline that 4G should be measured with. One point that Martin left out of his well written and very factual account as to why WiFi is so important and a better performer than Mobile 3G … Read more
Blogger pal Ricky Cadden turned me onto Microsoft Live Writer on my Netbook, an Asus 1000HE. Honestly, I never knew it was on the notebook size PC nor had I even heard of it. Maybe its that I’m still a Mac user first, but given how much I surf and how in touch I am … Read more
