Novatel Wireless pioneered the concept of the MiFi, introducing it for the first time at CES in January, 2009. Huawei, the Chinese telecom giant, a year earlier had introduced a similar product idea, but it was Novatel who pushed the idea of MiFi to the limits, and pretty much built the market for PocketSpots as … Read more
We continue to see more of what I am calling the sponsored model of public WiFi. After all the municipal models failed, with city and county governments in many places buying into a very flawed model that was heavily overplayed by Earthlink and a group of advisors to cities, plus an over dependence on a … Read more
A company out of the UK, called LocalPhone.com has put together a cheap calling service, plus some very nifty features, largely around SMS and call forwarding, plus of course inexpensive VoIP minutes. In reading their blog, they are offering inexpensive VoIP minutes, local numbers in many countries, with the claim of “Call Global, Pay Local.” … Read more
An Irish company has unveiled a very interesting multiparty video conferencing solution. Dubbed Eplixo, the demo video clearly shows that as processors in mobile devices become more powerful, that the Dick Tracy era of the video communicator is quickly coming upon us.
The New York Time’s Brad Stone broke a story late Tuesday night about COO Scott Durchslag departing Skype to return to the world of the Fortune 500, from whence he came, as the gentle giant from Motorola was put in as part of a big picture, strategic rethink by the eBay folks. Now, with a … Read more
A few weeks ago, Voxeo announced the raising of $9 million dollars. This is a company that doesn’t need money, as they are rapidly becoming the go to company in the Voice XML space and a few others. Shortly after, Voice consultant Larry Lisser who has successfully maneuvered Mobivox to their recent sale to SABSE/Bolo, … Read more
I’ve personally experienced Swisscom powered hotels in Barcelona, Paris and even in the USA for the initial eComm event and two years of Office 2.0 in San Francisco, and can without fear express how well their technology deployments of WiFi will work in a hotel setting. Well now they’ve rolled out WiFi calling at their … Read more
Rethink Wireless has a trolling piece out today about the potential changing landscape in the USA cellular/mobile marketplace. I think we will see a MetroPCS/Leap (i.e. Cricket) link up next year and then a roll up of T-Mobile. Either that or first a roll up into Sprint, and then T-Mobile taking over Sprint and Vodafone … Read more
Did you ever want to send a package to someone and not know their “physical” address. It could be someone on your aging AOL buddy list, or even a Twitter Pal. It may be the person who you “met” using Match.com or one of the “social dating sites.” Regardless of how you “know” them or … Read more
Did you ever want to send a package to someone and not know their “physical” address. It could be someone on your aging AOL buddy list, or even a Twitter Pal. It may be the person who you “met” using Match.com or one of the “social dating sites.” Regardless of how you “know” them or … Read more
