Cisco recently launch UMI, their version of TV set video calling. Today, one of the VoIPWatch Voyeurs spied just watch the Silicon Valley giant is doing in Atlanta at the Lenox Square Mall to market UMI. This is called experiential marketing and for Cisco it means following what mobile operators have done for years to … Read more
Well last week the cable guys came out and replaced my cable modem and gave me an upgrade to DOCSIS 3.0. As a business customer of CoxBusiness I learned a few years ago that we just get treated better than the residential customers, so the extra $60.00 a month or so has never been a … Read more
Last month, GigaOM posted the news that Apple is working with SIM card manufacturer Gemalto to cut out the carriers. A new embedded SIM card from Gemalto would allow the loading of the operator-specific data onto the SIM after the phone was purchase. This week, there was news of the GSMA working to allow this … Read more
A survey in the UK shows that a lot of Brits will be looking to connect to the net with a mobile device. That’s giving rise to the sale of pocketspots, also known as the MiFi. As someone who uses both data dongles and 3G/4G Pocketspots from Novatel Wireless and the Sprint Overdrive made by … Read more
A survey in the UK shows that a lot of Brits will be looking to connect to the net with a mobile device. That’s giving rise to the sale of pocketspots, also known as the MiFi. As someone who uses both data dongles and 3G/4G Pocketspots from Novatel Wireless and the Sprint Overdrive made by … Read more
Tom Keating drew my attention to Konnect, a new Peer 2 Peer telephony system. Years back one of my first VoIP clients inside my agency was a company called Popular Telephony. The company fell on hard times and the intellectual property was eventually sold off for very little money. The idea was simple. A P2P … Read more
For years the mobile operators have avoided the reality of the situation when it comes to coverage and solutions. Now comes a report from the New York Times that the leading mobile operators in the USA are contending that wireless boosters interfere with the smooth running of their networks. What’s ironic is those “boosters” and … Read more
Dear Prudence, It was a Long and Winding Road, but today Apple decided they could just Let It Be. Yes I know. the service’s application that almost started a Revolution and wasn’t available Yesterday has surfaced today for real, and nobody had to hold a Revolver to anyone’s head to make it happen. I mean, … Read more
IntoMobile is reporting that Nimbuzz had to drop another Instant Messaging platform, ICQ which is owned by AOL. Previously Nimbuzz dropped Skype under threat of legal action from the Skype attorneys. I’m not surprised and would expect to see similar noise from Yahoo and Microsoft at some point in the future, not because I agree, … Read more
Friends who know about IT outsourcing like my pal Tony Greenberg of RampRate, have been telling me for years that it’s more than just price and SLA’s that you have to look for when enterprise scale companies look to make decisions on their purchasing of IT services. Well it looks like Netflix has taken that … Read more
