Will Mobile VoIP Impact Carrier Revenues? In-Stat seems to think so. In what has become the flavor of the year, and with good reason, over at In-Stat, their coverage of the Mobile VoIP market continues to reflect what the market looks like. This time they have laid out what the impact will be to the … Read more
Om gives the N900 (something I have on order from Amazon) a 6 out of 10. That’s barely a passing grade. Granted he reviewed pre-release software, but what I like about it is the “optimized for the T-Mobile network” on which I currently run an Android based MyTouch3 from T-Mobile. Hopefully, by the time I … Read more
The New York Times is announcing staff reductions. This is a clear sign of the times that Print is Dead. Back in 2004 I made that prediction when I lectured at Temple University based on the decline the previous year in the print advertising lineage in the adult media market. It looks like that barometer … Read more
Waveboard is a new Mac application that makes Wave more easier to manage and takes it out of the browser. As a Wave user now for about a week I find the concept interesting and evolving, but I’m not addicted to it yet like I could be to Twitter or Facebook. What I do like … Read more
This week we look at Skype possibly buying Gizmo, the amnesia of Sidekick, Google offering Free WiFi on Virgin America and eComm.
If you have to Fly and want to stay connected, Virgin America and Google are giving away free WiFi for the holiday season. Now, what’s good here is if you use Google Voice you can at least receive your messages as transcribed text. Then again, maybe they’ll let us use Google Talk voice and video…hmmmm
Phil Wolff has a great post on how voice becomes more than cheap calling via Skype. Larry Lisser writes up why voice is back in vogue. Alec Saunders gets under the hood and shows just what AT&T may be up to in the battle around free conference calling and more. The Wall Street Journal reports … Read more
Sidekick users can rejoice. Instead of suffering brain damage, it looks like the data loss is turning out to be more a case of amnesia.
I’ve had a day to reflect on the rumor of Skype buying Gizmo (actually they would be buying all of Sipphone) and why it’s more than just good for the VoIP industry. For starters, just the fact that Skype is thinking of SIP as the alternative to JoltID is a good sign. It brings all … Read more
One of the things one learns is that one can often be right without saying much. For months as the JoltID suit has been rearing its ugly head I’ve been saying Skype is a brand not a technology and they would simply go all SIP. That opens the door to a lot of potential moves, … Read more
