A Texas company has released a product called DataJAck that is promising an unlimited amount of 3G data in the USA for $39.95. To top off the offer, they are claiming no activation or termination fees and no contract, you can turn the service on and off as you wish. It would appear they are … Read more
I read this very nice year in review on the Ribbit blog. It highlights all kinds of things, but after a year of being part of BT one thing we have yet to hear about is revenue and customers. In the space Ribbit competes in companies like Voxeo, ifByPhone (a client) and Twilio are all … Read more
I was in Las Vegas a few days ago and got to experience Mobile WiMax for the first time via the Sprint/Clearwire network that’s been installed there. My reaction. Think the best of WiFi and a MiFi all rolled into one. Speeds were solid and I was able to make VoIP and Skype calls, including … Read more
When the news gets slow around the holidays you can always expect the rumor mill to be running at full tilt around the household company names. Well, I don’t think this is a rumor at all when I read that Skype and Avaya are in talks to bring Skype into the enterprise. One reason is … Read more
Robert Poe has detailed the top 25 advances in VoIP in 2009. Give it a read.
Check out the eWeek article about GoogleVoice and Gizmo. Seems the Nexus One isn’t the only thing that Google is now “leaking” over. Here’s what I think. 1) Gizmo5’s assets brings GoogleVoice the missing soft client on multiple platforms except the iPhone. That will have to wait. Macs, PCs, Symbian and Android will be their … Read more
Larry Lisser picked up on my meme from over the weekend and dubbed the growing video chat, communications and conferencing world as visual communications in a very well thought out piece.
From the earliest of days of public WiFi I have always felt the biggest players that would benefit from it were the cable operators. Seems I was right as Cablevision is proving how in the contiguous areas around New York City that their WiFi cloud is attracting users. And, they are all their already existing … Read more
Let’s set the record straight, for in 2010 we will begin to see some clear lines (are they battle lines) drawn when it comes to “face to face” communications over the Internet. A post yesterday about Google’s Video Chat got me thinking, and as someone who is very much into both branding and operation definitions, … Read more
Apple stock hit an all time high, over $200 this week. But that’s just the financial story. What is really impressive is how well Apple is faring in purchase popularity in every category they compete it. In phones. In the desktop and laptop categories, when you consider how much more expensive their products are vs. … Read more
