According to tech support agent Sky at Verizon Wireless the LTE upgrade for the Motorola Xoom is now slated for the start of summer not the original 90 days after launch that was reported as "official." Techie Buzz, says it's because Verizon wants to beef up it's network…Well, if there are the 250K Xoom's out … Read more
Wired, Reuters and others are reporting that Skype is in talks at preliminary stages for various types of tie ups with FaceBook and Google. No surprise. In the past Google took a good hard look at Skype and bought Gizmo instead, but that doesn't keep the corporate development teams from kicking the tires. Ever since … Read more
Image by mohamedn via Flickr Since 1998, Ken Rutkowski and I have co-hosted KenRadio's World Technology Roundup, and while we've been missing for a few weeks due to Ken's travel and mine, I can't pass up this opportunity to wish him a Happy Birthday.
In the world of startups, you hope one day for an exit. In the case of many at Boingo it’s been a long time coming. Pal Christian Gunning has been there since the beginning, from it’s days inside an incubator called eCompanies Wireless, the Sky Dayton/Jake Winebaum progeny that was a JV with Sprint in Passadena … Read more
Image via Wikipedia Verizon's Wireless needs a dose of reality. Using Twitter to tell the public that they are aware of the LTE outage this past week, is neither media relations nor public relations. It's hiding in plain sight. It's like a public company putting out news on a Friday afternoon, after the market … Read more
Years ago, voice on the net visionary, Jeff Pulver created FreeWorldDialup, a service that gave users "free" SIP account to make calls on net to other SIP users. It helped spawn a very active community, simplified how people could get online, and in many ways paved the way for what is now Skype-minus SIP. Now, … Read more
Image via CrunchBase Last week the world saw that Amazon Web Services EC2 went down, wrecking havoc with many so called Cloud based startups. Later in the week I fell victim to the JungleDisk DNS outage, and while Rackspace which manages JungleDisk, even though my data sits on Amazon,was able to maintain data integrity, the … Read more
Image via Wikipedia Pal Bruce Bigelow of XConomy has a solid recap of VoxOx's VoxOx Call launch that happened yesterday. VoxOx, which was funded by my neighbor-for the sake of transparency, is part of Telcentris, a San Diego based CLEC with a focus on international calling and are hoping to cut into that pie, the … Read more
Image via CrunchBase Tungle, the service that makes it easy to scheudule appointments has been bought by RIM. Business Insider and Tech Crunch have details. For founder Marc Gingras, this is is second exit, with the first being NIMCAT that was purchased by Mitel some years back in the early days of P2P telephony. With … Read more
Skype, which purchased Qik has come out with an update for Qik called Qik Connect. At some point I expect the Skype platform and Qik platform to converge as the overlap in video is becoming more and more obvious.
