Moshe Maeir from Flat Planet Phone Company has posted about his newest development, a Least Cost Routing Engine for mobile. LCR has been around for years. Many years. I added LCR back in the 80s when I was serving as the Office Manager for the Philadelphia Flyers and had the pleasure of over seeing their … Read more
Last week another airline joined the flying WiFi brigade. United. So what! Given the limited number of planes which GoGo is installed in, and the risk of an equipment change, the hype outweighs the availability. With roughly two dozen planes in the skies with WiFi before the United announcement last week, it means that the … Read more
Voice Broadcast of messages has always been a promise, that fell short in one area. Delivery. Now client ifByPhone is taking a page out of the Domino's Pizza and Federal Express (FedEx) playbook of successful business practices. They're guaranteeing the on time delivery of broadcast messages. How easy is it to use? Put it this … Read more
In reviewing the results of a recently announced Cisco IT services study reveals to me that many of the concepts including unified communications, the use of video in communications and streaming media, three technologies I've been heavily involved with and a consumer of are simply too challenging, even for IT professionals, on a variety of … Read more
For a long time IBM has been off to the sidelines in many people’s minds, and Lotus, once the name for the Spreadsheet of choice many years ago, seemed to be king of the sore thumb of business apps. Some companies loved it, stuck with it, but for the most part Microsoft Office rules the … Read more
Do you have lousy cellular coverage in your home? Is your office in a part of the building where coverage just almost makes it? Never fear, the Femtocells are coming and they’re promising to solve all your problems. We’ll see.
The New York Times is reporting on the stress the inauguration is going to be putting on our nations wireless networks. Let’s face it, the USA based wireless infrastructure has been lagging for years. We have what I would label as “good enough” not best in class, yet we as consumers pay top dollar for … Read more
I keep hearing and sensing that we’ll be seeing the INQ line of phones here in North America really soon. Just today, I spotted a review in the Sydney Morning Herald. Why would I like to see them here? Well for starters I’ve been using the INQ made SkypePhone and SkypePhone2 via 3 when I’m … Read more
Stuart Henshall is ranting about his experience with Comcast, one that other customers of there’s have shared publicly or privately in the past. It’s not far different from what caused the movie “Cable Guy” to become a great example of art imitating life. That’s Comcast. But Stuart has to take a moment and think about … Read more
Jaiku takes residence in the Boulevard of Broken Dreams is the visual I that came to mind of when I read Ken Camp’s latest post about Jaiku. Maybe you know the painting. “Welcome to the Machine” by Pink Floyd is the song that I thought of as I reread Ken’s post. Here’s the part of … Read more
