IT Expo moves their fall show to Austin starting September 13 and for me the cloud is where it will be. Cloud Comm, one of the many (maybe too many) co-located conferences at the fall TMCnet shindig is now in its 4th event and for the vetrans like me this event was always the one … Read more
Image by LA Wad via Flickr It seems in Germany some of the ICE trains also have WiFi too. Just like the Acela's on the east coast here in the USA and a few of the Pacific Surfliner trains that run along the California coast between San Diego and Santa Barbara. Having used these in the … Read more
Image by lazytom via Flickr It seems in Germany some of the ICE trains also have WiFi too. Just like the Acela's on the east coast here in the USA and a few of the Pacific Surfliner trains that run along the California coast between San Diego and Santa Barbara. Having used these in the … Read more
One of the biggest issues I've seen over the years with voice services is codec mismatches. Not only do they impact how things sound, often times with conference calls they just make the calls sound odd and magnified by the effects of landline, VoIP lines and mobile networks not all speaking the same way to … Read more
Juniper Research is reporting that mobile video calling is expected to grow through 2016 as services like Apple's FaceTime drive interest and demand. The key point here is the need for standardization of mVideo and that is clearly NOT Skype or FaceTime. The one point missed is the need for optimization regardless of whether the … Read more
Skype is buying GroupMe for a reported $85 million dollars. While a lot of conjecture exists around the why, I think that the former Startup Camp participant's value was in the fact that they really do handle SMS for groups and with Skype heading into a small group/small business mine field where the mobile handset becomes … Read more
Over the past few months I've been privately sharing my thoughts on how the wireless landscape changes with the looming AT&T/T-Mobile merger coming upon us. With the news today about the cable guys and Sprint working to take over Clearwire (a part of the scenario I've already been talking about) I figured it's time to … Read more
Was it legal for BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) to turn off mobile network coverage in stations to prevent civil disturbances? Today, a few days after all the turmoil the perspective in the news is mixed. Some say the backlash is growing, while others question BART's right to simply turn the power off to the … Read more
Image via CrunchBase Panasonic, long only thought of as a consumer brand–which they're not only–has entered the cloud communications space with support from Broadsoft. The new entry to the market is simply called Panasonic Cloud. Simply put, the company which once rejected ad great Jerry Della Famina's ad agency to work with them when you … Read more
Image via CrunchBase BT never knew what to do with Ribbit, and Ribbit never really could do anything for BT. And now, a few years after a $105 million dollar price tag paid for by BT Ribbit, BT has decided to put Ribbit to sleep. The move comes some nine months after the mastermind behind … Read more
