Let’s face it, Apple changed the game with the App Store and the iPhone. Nokia followed with Ovi (which is improving), RIM with their version and of course Market for Android. You didn’t think that the GSMA and their members and some of their members, both carriers and handset manufacturers would stand around idly, while … Read more
Sagem-Orga, one of the three or four companies that makes the SIM cards that are placed inside the mobile phone just likely sent shockwaves through companies like San Diego’s Novatel Wireless, Cradlepoint, Option and Sierra Wireless all of whom make 3G dongles and some of whom are creating what I like to call the category … Read more
Fuze Mobility cites a Bloomberg / Business Week article about the next move by Skype with Verizon Wireless in the USA. What I find funny is that Hutchison Whampoa may be a Hong Kong company, but the success of the Skypephone,that already has the Skype service running on it, has been in London using iSkoot’s … Read more
Perhaps the hottest table on the food tourism circuit of all time, the famed El Bulli in Spain's Costa Brava region will be closing FOR GOOD at the end of 2010 as the chef cites both exhaustion and financial woes.
Good news for travelers heading to Barcelona for the 2010 Mobile World Congress put on by the GSMA. As part of rolling out Skype Access on Windows the Skype folks are offering free access on Boingo in Barcelona. Once you get to Barcelona look for SIMs at Phone house locations for your unlocked phones. If … Read more
Pal Mark Williamson has become a blogger. The witty, wild minded and whimsical one is using his blog as a combination speakers corner and notification engine. One of the key facts I learned is that Willi’s is going through a renovation the next time I’m in Paris. Sorry Mark, I won’t be hammering or totting … Read more
Rumor has it Cable TV MSO VoIP provider Singlepipe is in play. Reports are they have interest from at least one competitor, Momentum Telecom. A second rumor has it that Skype and Verizon Wireless have gotten chummy of late, and an announcement at next week’s Mobile World Congress is being planned. If you look at … Read more
David Corey is in love with the Mourvedre grape as much as any winemaker in the USA since Randall Graham made his famed “Old Telegram” back in the mid 80s. Since his debut with the 2002 vintage, David has been steadily making strides as one of the west coast’s finest young winemakers with his brand, … Read more
It seems that DataJack has lost their ability to link to the T-Mobile coverage map. That implies that T-MO has had a word with them about using their network, or I should say, likely NOT using their network. By clicking through to the DataJack coverage map one finds that they don’t have one. Coverage information … Read more
My guess is some ingenious VoIP type will figure out how to mashup making telephone calls using the new form of virtual currency called Kwedit. The story today in the New York Times about the new way to pay could be a key to many a carrier’s future user base.
