I find the brewing pot of noise around sponsored data that AT&T announced this week all to be a bit funny. Why? Sponsored "data" has been around for a very long time. Radio programs were sponsored as far back as the 1920s. Public television has been sponsored since the 1950. Just as mobile data runs … Read more
It all started with my MacBook Air. Once I had my first one, I started using cloud storage. I had so many different Macs and PC’s that storing files “in the cloud” was more logical than trying to keep files in sync or traveling around the globe with a portable hard drive. Next came the … Read more
The Comunicano Daily So it's a New Year and I'm still over in Portugal for another 24 hours, then over to London for some quick meetings and a flight back to the west coast just in time to head to Las Vegas for CES…So, taking a look at the stories … Read more
The flying P has been the Flyers' primary logo since the beginning. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) LTE Advanced is something I'm starting to see rolling out as I travel. It's actually been here in Portugal for about a year though not really named LTE-A. The speeds are insane. Something like 150 megs on mobile. So what this … Read more
The Comunicano Daily As the year ends, we can both look back and look forward. The New York Time's John Markoff who has made a career looking at the Internet and Silicon Valley has a well balanced look at where the Internet is going in today's New York Times. Om … Read more
VC, angel, blogger Brad Feld wrote a very passionate post about his plan to move for a month from iOS to Android on his blog this past week. A day or so later VentureBeat picked up the post and reposted it, and the Twittersphere picked up on it adding greater social amplification. Feld's post has … Read more
The Comunicano Daily Over the weekend I was joined by a group of ex-pats and fellow global nomads whom pal Craig Walker of UberConference introduced me to. It started with an email, led to a Skype call, then we used email, Twitter and iMessaging to coordinate meeting up, all … Read more
This image shows a red wine glass. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Over the last few days friends here in Cascais and Lisbon have been on a kick of drinking wines from all over the country, north to the Douro and South into Setubal, Alentajo and even from the hillsides surrounding Lisbon. While this is not meant … Read more
The Comunicano Daily Most of the news today has been about the holiday shopping/shipping woes. So we'll start with that and look at some other facts and information surrounding the holiday season. Now..on to the news.. Many shoppers blame online retailers for stealing Christmas: Shipping … Read more
Image via CrunchBase At Comunicano, our master of the message, Bill Ryan hammers on regularly about why positioning is so important. He should know. Back in 90s his agency, NRW was brought in by the late Steve Jobs to help with the turnaround of Apple. Now, some 16 years later, you can still see the … Read more
