The Skype press conference with Verizon wasn’t more than an hour over when Brian Deagon of Investors Business Daily rang up to ask my take on the move by Verizon to work with Skype. Brian is one of my favorite IBD reporters because he asks the kind of questions that get to the heart of … Read more
The Skype deal with Verizon Wireless proves the old adage of “what’s old is new again.” Fearing that throngs of Skype users would do to their EVDO network what the iPhone has done to AT+T, Verizon went with a circuit switched solution that is similar to what Three in the UK has had since 2008 … Read more
I like home grown companies, and this company, TelCentris is really that. Started by one of my neighbors and his sons, the company, which markets under the VoXOx name is releasing what they are describing as a universal translator tied to instant and social messaging that is built into the VoxOx client according to XConomy. … Read more
One of the great things about being in Barcelona are the things you pick up. Here’s some more details on the upcoming Skype and Verizon Wireless announcement that’s due to come out tomorrow. Contrary to what everyone is thinking Verizon is using circuit switched voice not 3G, ala what Three in the UK does. So … Read more
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
