Skype Video Phone Coming Soon
Asus jumped the gun and the blogosphere is chattering about the new Asus VideoPhone based on Skype. PocketLint and others have the details.
Weblogs
Boingo Get’s High Marks
Client Boingo received high praise from the folks at ZDNET today. In a post about trying out the service, Dennis Howlett, tabs Boingo as “a traveler’s lifesaver” saying that it is “an easy way to avoid all those ludicrous $X per day charges that hotels and airport operators try to gouge out of you when … Read more
A Very Common Sense Approach To Virtual Working
This is a very good read as the article weaves through the plusses and minuses of virtual conferencing including video and web based. What I like about the article is that the author has brought a sense of reality into the equation by suggesting that some meetings still need to be done “in person” not … Read more
Portable Hotspots Critiqued
ZDNet’s SOHO Networking writer Sean Portnoy has taken a good look at two of the applications that make it easier for you to tether a laptop to your cell phone to get 3G connectivity. He profiles my favorite, JoikuSpot, and a second product called the Walking HotSpot from Taproot Software. Joiku has been a lifesaver … Read more
Welcome To The Virtual Mile High Club
With all the fuss LapTop Magazine’s News Editor Joanna Stern and I caused with our five minute VoIP “hook up” over Aircell a few weeks back that really stirred up a lot of attention, I had to laugh when I read that there is now a growing concern over American Airline’s passengers possibly using the … Read more
Trade Shows Are Boring
I was at CTIA yesterday and walked the floor around some meetings that I had. It was boring. Very boring. The life has been sucked out of the trade shows and companies which are spending money are getting wise to it. The original rules put on the exhibitors, all designed originally to inspire companies to … Read more
Truphone in New York Times
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
Hotel Broadband–How To Be Ready For Prime Time
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
VoIP Makes for a Good Cause
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
iSkoot Takes Aim At Well, AIM and MIG33
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