Imagine in the past you’ve been a product manager at Nokia, Microsoft, RIM, Motorola, Samsung, Palm, Siemens, Sony Ericsson or at SUN overseeing Java for mobile or at Qualcomm watching over Brew. For years your bosses have been asking you how do we make more money off of all these applications we have developers developing. … Read more
Pal Dean Elwood was featured in a nice post this week.
With a new standard coming soon that makes VoWiFi easier and better, including the all important handoff, I’m suspecting that it’s a burgeoning sector, finally. Yesterday at the Churchill Club, one of the original Skype backers at DFJ started to make some points about the viability, and what a Skype spinout of eBay will mean, … Read more
The reference to a Flyers Alumni game at the Spectrum many years ago involved an event I produced, secured sponsorship and gave every ounce of energy to make happen. The person quoted, Charlie Able, was one of the many people who did so much for me in my youth when I was working my way … Read more
While I may be skeptical about a few other so called “data channel VoIP” that are being touted, this concept out of Israel and Syracuse, NY seems to fly. Based upon using unlicensed spectrum and deploying some kind of voice call continuity and roaming between WiFi hotspots the concept would appear to be plausible. In … Read more
I am taking the position that ripping off content is a bad thing, and Google led the pack by initially permitting all kinds of content into YouTube until such time as they could understand the metrics, and apply a revenue model based on advertising performance. Today GigaOm and NewTeeVee’s Liz Gaines story jumped to BusinessWeek … Read more
Esme Vos has a post earlier this week about what I am calling the 3G Choke Point on Muni Wireless. As a PolyNetwork carrier user I’ve seen what the greed of AT&T, and the lagging T-Mobile has done here in the USA with 3G data, and how the very conservative, but far more better managed … Read more
While I’m not a developer I can’t help but sing the praises of the annual ClueCon conference, held each year in Chicago. I was there last year and had a blast, but alas this year I can’t be there as I have a birthday coming up and will be in France for this one as … Read more
Media 5, a Quebec based company, is planning on releasing a SIP based client for the Apple iPhone via the App store in July. I was tipped off to this via About.com’s Nadeem Unuth.
Alec Saunders has a very good analysis on why free conferencing call service Foonz has bitten the dust. Long time readers (and listeners of KenRadio’s World Technology Roundup) will know well my views on FREE. It simply doesn’t work. We’ve all heard the expression “there’s no such thing as a free lunch.” Well in the … Read more
