Let’s face it. Before Apple released the iPhone mobile data was a “nice to have.” Apple made it a necessity. Before the iPhone, those of us who were using other devices, mostly Nokia or Windows Mobile handsets pretty much had free reign on the networks and the network data folks were pretty much the castoffs, … Read more
I think this post by Stacey @ GigaOm says it all about the Pure Digital purchase a few months back by Cisco.
As someone who has been carrying a so called SmartPhone for as long as I can remember (I had Windows Mobile devices from Siemens and HTC since they launched years back) and even a Blackberry or Palm device, I’m not at all surprised at how the New York Times has now labeled the Personal Information … Read more
Give it to pals Peter Csathy and Eric Quanstrom to pick the right time to bring out new technology that solves one of the iPhone’s biggest shortcomings. Video. Sure you can play YouTube videos using a special Apple approved You Tube app, or watch iTunes videos, but producers of content were pretty much locked out … Read more
Client Global IP Solutions, which pretty much wrote the book on voice compression in the IP comms arena, landed Korea Telecom, now called KT, to provide the key piece of technology that will make the new Smartphone based on Windows Mobile sound good. P.S. To keep track of GIPS’s viewpoints on the emerging communications industry, … Read more
When I see a press release on PRWeb, sort of a no cost, low cost distribution service that few people follow compared to Business Wire or PR NewsWire, I always feel someone tried to “hide” the news. That’s the sense I have around the so called acquisition of Jaxtr by the founder of HotMail’s India … Read more
While faxing may be so 20th century, there are still many people and businesses using the technology to send documents back and forth that require signatures, or proof of transmission. But using fax machines over VoIP has always been a challenge, until now. FaxBack has perfected it to work with Microsoft Fax.
Here’s one that slipped by last week in what was a whirlwind week for me, culminating in a trip to the UK on Friday. Back on June 1 Broadsoft and Counterpath released a customize version of Bria, an app I use on my Netbooks regularly. While Broadsoft is touting this, I say this is a … Read more
Move over Smartphone, a new sheriff is in town, and it’s called the Superphone. At least thats the moniker being plastered about via GigaOm’s founder Om Malik, who in an comprehensive overview is describing just what is going on in the smartphone/superphone market. The comment which caught my eye is his closing comment about M&A … Read more
Dean Bubley, a pseudo regular dining companion, from time to time in London (and elsewhere) has two insightful posts about Mobile broadband. The first, and most recent, is a random musing on the subject, while the second takes apart some stats about the subject released by the GSMA. Personally as the owner and user of … Read more
