I can hear the music video now, playing in my head. The song is from The seminal New Wave band of the 70’s, The Talking Heads, and it’s “Burning Down the House” as the AT&T network goes down in tatters all around a bunch of stunned and wide eyed executives in Dallas and Atlanta. Start … Read more
A few weeks ago at the Intercontinental Hotel in San Francisco, CA I spied the Google StreetView team taking photos outside of the hotel while I was waiting for a colleague. Then a few minutes later the photo crew was wandering inside the lobby with tripod and cameras taking photos of INSIDE the hotel. Is … Read more
A few weeks ago at the Intercontinental Hotel in San Francisco, CA I spied the Google StreetView team taking photos outside of the hotel while I was waiting for a colleague. Then a few minutes later the photo crew was wandering inside the lobby with tripod and cameras taking photos of INSIDE the hotel. Is … Read more
I’m sitting on the tarmac at London Heathrow for what is the last flight for me this year out of London’s largest airport. I’m connected with my Novatel Wireless MiFi 2352. It’s 3G and I made a Skype call from my MacBook Pro using client FreeTalk’s Everyman headset as the person I needed to call … Read more
Everyone who knows consumer electronics knows that in the USA, BestBuy is considered one of the savviest of retailers around, ranking up there with WalMart. So it’s not a surprise to me that Google has taken a page out of the BestBuy playbook that basically broke the price controls, ludicrous terms and changed the personal … Read more
Rumors have Texas based VoIP provider iCall being bought by Apple. A new VoIP service that works with mobiles including Nokias, Windows Mobile and Blackberry is out. It’s named Spokn. The Google Phone is sounding more and more real everyday. AT&T network is fastest.
Let’s face it, AT&T made an error two years ago and miscalculated what the iPhone would mean. I don’t mean that people inside AT&T didn’t know what would happen. They did. Executives inside the mobile division expressed that it would take at least seven billion dollars to double the capacity of their aging mobile network. … Read more
As device divergence grows, and the Amazon Kindle, is clearly the first market for an ecosystem to develop around on, we’ll see inventive ideas come to life. In this case, it’s a whiteboard capture and send to Kindle technology that GigaOm’s Kevin Tofel has discovered. Aimed at the education market, initially, I can see this … Read more
As device divergence grows, and the Amazon Kindle, is clearly the first market for an ecosystem to develop around on, we’ll see inventive ideas come to life. In this case, it’s a whiteboard capture and send to Kindle technology that GigaOm’s Kevin Tofel has discovered. Aimed at the education market, initially, I can see this … Read more
If you have a campaign that is based upon “more bars in more places” and have made claims about “fewest dropped calls” then you better know where your problems lie. That’s the idea behind a new iPhone app from AT&T, called “Mark the Spot.” Personally, I would have named it “DropZone” as that defines what … Read more
