Over the past few months I have been all over Europe and been testing SIM card purchasing for smartphones and tablets. In France and Spain, Orange previously had been a bit of a challenge. Not any more. In Madrid obtaining a Nano SIM for the iPhone 5 at Vodafone was impossible but Orange had them. … Read more
Image via CrunchBase Image via CrunchBase Back in the heydey of VoIP, circa 2006/2007 GrandCentral was the "buzz and da bomb" quickly gaining likely some hundreds of thousands of users before getting snapped up by Google and turned into GoogleVoice. But they had rivals, not direct competition, but services that did different things. Two of … Read more
New TeleGeography Map (Photo credit: Emilie Ogez) Image via CrunchBase It's time to bring down Skype. I don't mean take their network down. No way. But Skype is now about as pedestrian as the telcos that Skype sought to bring down, and in reality did. Skype has taken a stranglehold in the International long distance … Read more
Image via CrunchBase Note to the Tony Bates-if you have customers, bill them as Skype, not an unknown, back office company. It's called Branding 101. You see, it's been a few years since Skype started to charge for services, so one would think that in an era of global transactions that they would get their … Read more
8×8's CEO Bryan Martin was featured in an NBC TV news feature in the Bay Area about the second coming of the technology boom in Silicon Valley as the Nasdaq, where many tech companies list their stock reached a twelve year high. Watch the video. My take–we're seeing a new renaissance of sorts in technology. … Read more
Kevin Tofel waxes on about Skype video in the browser today over at GigaOm. The story points out that Skype and Microsoft integrated this in to the cloud based Outlook.com, but are not using native RTC, and instead require a plugin. But lets dig a bit deeper into this. The non native integration demonstrates that … Read more
The San Diego area is known largely for bio-tech and mobile leadership, largely due to Qualcomm and its dominance on the local technology scene. But quietly, the region is becoming home to some of the more rapidly growing VoIP companies on both an infrastructure level. Whose here? Well for starters here's three—Sansay, Phone.com and Telcentris. … Read more
AT&T, T-Mobile and Boingo jointly participated in a media event this week in New York's Times Square Station announcing the arrival of wireless coverage in 30 underground stations operated by the MTA, New York City's transit authority. Like in London, the coverage and services are tied to existing operators. No information was provided for people … Read more
One of the neat things about IP based calling companies is the fact that most are founded by innovators at heart. That's why today when I watched the video OnSip Busy Lamp Field note from CEO Mike Oeth, I just had to share it. What the busy lamp field means is users can now see … Read more
Pal Paul Kapustka who has been in and out of telecom reporting since his days as a sports reporter in Boulder Colorado–where I knew him first—has a take on UC and BYOD. Paul's key points-iPads are what will be the difference while the top platforms are where the action will go. –Andy Abramson
