Mobile Operators Clarifying VoIP Rules on Data Networks

Image via Wikipedia Vodafone Italia is clarifying their permitting of VoIP, or when they'll block it. In Spain and France I've noticed how some of the mobile operators were blocking Skype and SIP calls over their date networks. It seems to be impacting the pre-paid market more than the contract market, but in the case … Read more

Phone Fusion’s Visual Voice Mail Yanked From Android Market

After all Google went through with Apple to get their GoogleVoice app into the App Store for the iPhone you might have expected some legal department compassion.  Nope. Instead they have pulled the PhoneFusion Visual VoiceMail client from the Android Market reports GigaOm's Ryan Kim.  PhoneFusion is a former client. They've built a very compelling offer … Read more

iPhone and SFR PrePaid Made Easy

The key to using SFR's prepaid voice and data on your iPhone 4 is so simple. Reset the network settings. For some reason, on the iPhone4 doesn't pick up the proper settings off the get go. I'm not sure why not, but now after two visits to the SFR store, I've figured out with their … Read more

Skype Connect to Get Boost Next Week at Enterprise Connect

Image via Wikipedia Skype is rumored to be in trials of its business focused Skype Connect service with two Avaya customers and next week at Enterprise Connect there will likely be some noise made by the global telco minutes stealer of an expanded relationship with Avaya. Skype is also hot on the trail to get … Read more

Motorola Zoom – A Tale of Two Posts

Image via Wikipedia If you are thinking of buying a Motorola Zoom, required reading are two very different style reviews of the new Honeycomb OS based Android tablet from Motorola that debuts today. First is Walt Mossberg, who in his Wall Street Journal review today, has made numerous comparison to the established holder of the … Read more

Amtrak To Add More Wi-Fi to Trains

Amtrak is getting it right. After a successful deployment on the Acela trains in the Northeastern USA and up in the Pacific Northwest on the Cascades line, they have decided to add Wi-Fi to 450 rail cars using technology from UK based Nomad Digital. This is a huge plus for the riders of the rails … Read more

Amtrak To Add More Wi-Fi to Trains

Amtrak is getting it right. After a successful deployment on the Acela trains in the Northeastern USA and up in the Pacific Northwest on the Cascades line, they have decided to add Wi-Fi to 450 rail cars using technology from UK based Nomad Digital. This is a huge plus for the riders of the rails … Read more

Wi-Fi and the Art of Working Where One Dines

Image via Wikipedia I'm a nomad, and I admit it. Put me on the road and I'll find what my heart lusts for. Wine, food and Wi-Fi. And the more time I spend in Europe, especially Spain, the more I find Wi-Fi in coffee shops, retaurants and gastro bars. And it's basically free. Sure, you … Read more

Dinner at Serge Arola in Madrid

In a word, amazing. I’ve been to his famed La Brioche four times before but Serge Arola’s new gastro restaurant is one to not miss on any visit to Madrid. Wines paired were perfectly matched up and none that I have ever had before, which was the plan of the wine director.