Skype has made a strategic hire to head the unit called Skype for Business. What makes the hire strategic is the person’s background with Reuters, Microsoft and VocalTec. Given the experience David Gurle has, and the moves Skype is making, I would say that SIP, video and the business markets are their core objectives for … Read more
Joe Sharkey has an update on the state of in flight WiFi in today’s New York Times. As a road warrior I choose my flights and hotels based on the broadband options available. Over the past month my trips to Northern California were 90 percent on Virgin America and only ten percent on Southwest. As … Read more
Joe Sharkey has an update on the state of in flight WiFi in today’s New York Times. As a road warrior I choose my flights and hotels based on the broadband options available. Over the past month my trips to Northern California were 90 percent on Virgin America and only ten percent on Southwest. As … Read more
A very interesting web based for telephony followers called Spokn has launched out of India, that looks like a combination of GoogleVoice, Truphone and a SIP trunking provider.
Some of you will remember my Phweety, Joanna Stern, when the two of us had a voice call about 18 months ago over GoGO, back when they were saying “no way could you make a voice call” using Phweet. Or you may recall her from her Queen of the Netbooks role at Laptop Magazine where … Read more
The reports are swirling that Skype has been taken out of the Apple app store. Well I think otherwise. Here’s what I think: 1) Apple is revising its Terms and Conditions around 3G Voice. 2) Skype is preparing a 3G native application 3) The next version we see in the Apple App Store will be … Read more
After a short stint with Voxeo, Jay Phillips, perhaps one of the brightest young minds in telecom, has resurfaced with his Adhearsion blog. I hold Jay in the same class as Thomas Howe, Alec Saunders (iotum, Calliflower), Jonathan Rosenberg (SIP, CISCO and Skype), Vincent Paquet, Craig Walker (GoogleVoice), Michael Robertson (Gizmo), James Tagg (Truphone) and … Read more
The folks at Nerd Vittles have gotten uber geeky, and have fallen in love with how to make a marriage between Twitter and Google Voice. But unless you have an Asterisk server, you won’t need to read just how they managed to make Twitter a calling engine that fires up Google Voice to call you … Read more
Great story in today’s Wall Street Journal that explains why some walls make WiFi impenetrable due to Chicken Wire.
Great story in today’s Wall Street Journal that explains why some walls make WiFi impenetrable due to Chicken Wire.
