Alec Saunders was fortunate to receive a new Nokia N97 while participating in a project we’re involved with for Nokia last week in San Francisco. His review pits the Nokia N97 against the new Apple iPhone GS and clearly shows why for multimedia, the real purpose of the N9x devices, since the N90 was first … Read more
A lot has been written by people I respect who have industry knowledge about the trials and tribulations over at Joost, the P2P video start up that was founded by the founders of Skype. Despite bringing in a big name CEO from Cisco, and all the hype Joost got, the recapping of their demise by … Read more
Over the past month I’ve tried an experiment. First I wanted to see if I could wean myself away from my Blackberries (yes I have one on T-Mobile and one on Verizon) for email and have been using both a Nokia E75 and two different E71s (one for North America and the other for Europe … Read more
A quick note about the Novatel MiFi devices, both the CDMA version that works on Verizon and the GSM/HSPA version that works here in the USA on AT&T and on any GSM operator’s network around the globe. 1. Verizon’s network smokes the current edition of AT&T Mobile Broadband in the Bay Area for real time … Read more
A lot of time and words are spent bashing Comcast by many a pundit, but you can’t ignore the fact that as a company they clearly have a strategy and a very defined one that says “we want to be you communications company.” In Portland Oregon, a market they serve in competition with iLec Qwest … Read more
Hat Tip to Doug Mohney for his discovery of Comcast’s new International plan, which is another broad shot cross the bow taken at Vonage and Skype by the cable companies. While not a “free” offer, this is a move by the cable giant is offering another reason to buy their triple play (voice, video and … Read more
Pal Dean Bubley was working in a cafe using is new Novatel MiFi and ran into some content filtering that prevented him from visiting a series of web sites that Vodafone is censoring.
The TechCrunch European Tech Awards nominations are out and the voting is open, and two of my clients plus a company we worked with for a year, Palringo, giving us three are in the running which in hockey terms gives us the Hat Trick! Shozu and Truphone have hit the list in different categories. Truphone … Read more
I’ve been trying to come up with a name for the cool, pocket size WiFi hotspot creators that are rapidly coming to market, starting with the Novatel Wirless MiFis (of which I now have both CDMA and GSM version-unlocked to boot). Then it hit me..the term is POCKETSPOT. I claim first use of the term, … Read more
Normally when I’m at San Diego’s Lindbergh Field for a flight I’m used to amazingly fast download speeds. Not so today as I was waiting for Virgin America’s flight to SFO this morning. My download speeds were just pitiful, indicating either the network is overloaded or they airport is rate limiting the users. If it’s … Read more
