The last 16 hours or so have been surreal for me and ironic. My mom passed away, at the same time my flight from Newark to London took off. I found out shortly after landing from my wife, who was at the hospital when mom joined my late father in heaven. Helene’s first words were … Read more
Rich Tehrani refers to a post earlier that I made about the possibility of Google buying Skype and suggests a few others. While Google has the bucks to make the buy, as does Cisco and Oracle, I don’t see the latter two jumping in. They like to be enterprise friendly, and Skype is perceived as … Read more
Asus jumped the gun and the blogosphere is chattering about the new Asus VideoPhone based on Skype. PocketLint and others have the details.
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
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
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
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
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
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
