I really like going to Austin. It's one of the nations emerging towns. Great music scene. A food and coffee culture that comes from being a cross between the state capital, a college town a booming tech mecca. As a matter of fact if I wasn't living in San Diego, Austin would make it on … Read more
Did you ever wonder what causes data networks to be congested. The folks at Dialogic have compiled a neat infographic that shows what triggers all the slowdowns as part of their efforts to optimize networks.
The last few weeks have been a blur. Mobilize and a lot of clients there. Las week was RIM Jam Americas, client meetings, new client signings, and strategy sessions. More of all that is ahead, and of course there’s TMC’s IT Expo and IDG’s DEMO. I’m moderating two panels at IT Expo, one on Tuesday … Read more
It looks like T-Mobile UK is going to offer a competitor to Skype and Rebtel in order to keep revenue from going elsewhere when it comes to international long distance. The new service called CleverConnect is different than what they offer in the USA using the Kineto UMA stack in select phones that allows for … Read more
The Next Web story about Samsung and their reported treatment of bloggers at the IFA is horrible. When compared what I did with the Nokia Blogger Relations Program from 2005-2010, where we supplied bloggers with N and some E series devices as part of a seeding program and then expanding the program to invite bloggers to attend Nokia World and … Read more
With the holiday weekend some things fell through the cracks. One was the 9th birthday of Skype. To help depict their story Skype has released an infographic that highlights their various milestones throughout the years. Skype may have been the single most disruptive service ever to hit the telecommunications world. For starters Skype really defined the … Read more
Net Talk, a direct competitor in many ways to MagicJack but with many more features, options and capabilties, have come out with the Net Talk Duo Wi-Fi. It's jam-packed with all kinds of capabilities and goes into the territory of the OBI and PhoneGnome as well as OOMA in many ways. Like MagicJack it offers … Read more
The Disney theme parks are known for customer service, and usually are ahead of the curve when it comes to deploying things that make for a better guest experience. Today the Orlando Sentinel reports that they are adding free Wi-Fi to their guest experiences. Wi-Fi is really helpful to guests because the size of the … Read more
The Newark Star-Ledger, Triangle Business Journal and Wireless Week all covered the opening of client Truphone's new Engineering Center that's housed inside NJIT's Enterprise Development Center in Newark under the direction of longtime friend, Dr. Ed Guy who has been with Truphone since their earliest days. Truphone will be part of GigaOm's Mobilize later this month. Joikusoft, the … Read more
In what looks to be a either a major loss or a negotiation ploy, Boingo has notified Advanced Wireless Group (AWG) of the termination their roaming agreement that impacts 15 airports. With Boingo entering the advertising supported space, the two are now head to head in competition for airports and ad revnue, and until the ad-network … Read more
