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Just after GoogleVoice became available to everyone yesterday Frontier Telecom slapped Google with a patent infringement suit.

I’m part of the Voyces blog team and yesterday posted about my experience of adding a UK 3G data plan to my iPad. You see, it’s Father’s Day today, and my late father, who was a former US Marine Corps Master Sargent, would be proud of my efforts yesterday to secure 3G data in the … Read more

Upfront let me state that I’ve never been a fan of the idea of a Femtocell so I’m sure when I meet up with my drinking buddy in here in London Dean Bubley later today in for a “proper” cocktail or two, we’ll have a good talk on the subject. In the USA AT&T has … Read more

Oh how I love the wines of the Languedoc, especially wines from the L’Herault Valley. The 2009 vintage is showing me just how fine it was as the legendary wine producer of Mas Dumas de Gassac’s second label, Reserve de Gassac Blanc is a stunning blend of juicy, mouth filling Viognier and young, tongue tingling … Read more

A comment from inside Verizon made to me casually recently was that Verizon has really stopped further development and expansion of FIOS. We’ve seen this before with them. Some years back they experimented with WiFi around Manhattan using the phone booths as hotspots. The idea was killed. Now I’m hearing the word about FIOS. Well … Read more

I always enjoyed the writing of Bruce Stewart when he was at O’Reilly and now I’m very happy to see he’s back in the saddle over at IT ToolBox where he penned a short piece about client CounterPath’s new Bria iPhone Edition joining in on the positive acclaim from: Alec Saunders Tom Keating Michael Graves … Read more

The analysis today by Voyces pal Thomas Howe about the new Twilio Open VBX is spot on. What really resonates, from an insiders perspective is why he feels client IfByPhone is safe here, and why Digium really error’d along the way. What was shocking was his feeling that this made Twilio a threat to Voxeo, … Read more

It’s great to see pal Jason Harris of Techcraver breaking out and doing some broadcast work with Rudy Maxa, and Rudy’s very savvy travel show, Rudy Maxa’s World radio broadcast. Jason profiles some very cool new gadgets and gizmos, as well as highlighted two longtime clients of mine, Boingo and Truphone, as must have’s for … Read more

It’s great to see pal Jason Harris of Techcraver breaking out and doing some broadcast work with Rudy Maxa, and Rudy’s very savvy travel show, Rudy Maxa’s World radio broadcast. Jason profiles some very cool new gadgets and gizmos, as well as highlighted two longtime clients of mine, Boingo and Truphone, as must have’s for … Read more

It’s more than about making calls on your mobile phone these days. Apps are playing a big role in how you manage things. Here are two new ones: Phone.com has launched their mobile office application. Client Ringio has a new Android application too that gives you a call center like experience on your Android Nexus … Read more