As I sit at the local Del Mar Starbucks on a Labor Day morning, there are just 10 people in the place, but seven, including me are connected, and four have iPads. Two people, both past sixty are reading the morning newspaper, getting news from mostly last week. We’ve hit a watershed moment. People are … Read more
When I see a story like the one in the New York Times today about rising airfares, more packed flights and less and less new routes being added, plus the additional costs, hassle factors and fear of being arrested for leaving a laptop on for ten seconds longer than the flight attendant thinks is necessary, … Read more
When I see a story like the one in the New York Times today about rising airfares, more packed flights and less and less new routes being added, plus the additional costs, hassle factors and fear of being arrested for leaving a laptop on for ten seconds longer than the flight attendant thinks is necessary, … Read more
Apple has conquered the wireless world with the iPhone and iPad. Now they want to do to the cable industry what they have done to the wireless carriers. Forced them to get bigger pipes to deliver more big file content, more quickly. The announcement yesterday about streaming video is a dream come true for those … Read more
There’s a revolution going on in voice communications, and it’s all about HD Voice. Today, in the UK, Orange (press release), one of the largest mobile operators in the world unveiled their new HD Voice service that works on a small number of handsets from Nokia and Samsung that move the voice traffic over the … Read more
Google is going after consumers with last week’s news about Google Talk being able to make calls now, and binding to GoogleVoice accounts as well. Well Skype isn’t sitting still, so while Google chases the no money crowd, Skype is following Willie Sutton’s line when asked why he robbed banks. “Because that’s where the money … Read more
So this morning I took some time to play around with Google Talk/Mail/Voice and sadly, its not all Central. I’ll give it the credit it deserves. It does a lot but one thing it doesn’t do is SYNC between the mailbox and the voice mailbox. Well, in reality, neither does Google Voice. Here’s why. A … Read more
Google Mail now has calling. For years Google had click to call tied to phone numbers on Google Maps. They’ve had Google Voice and picked up Gizmo. The media world has lit up over the fact that now from inside GMAIL you can make a phone call by clicking a button and up pops a … Read more
Yesterday, I was supposed to fly back to San Diego and my wife to Sacramento. We each had flights booked four hours apart. She on United and your’s truly on AirTran as I wanted WiFi. The weather in Boston was dreary. Fog. Rain. Plus President Obama in the area down in Martha’s Vineyard meant that … Read more
Yesterday, I was supposed to fly back to San Diego and my wife to Sacramento. We each had flights booked four hours apart. She on United and your’s truly on AirTran as I wanted WiFi. The weather in Boston was dreary. Fog. Rain. Plus President Obama in the area down in Martha’s Vineyard meant that … Read more
