For companies that sell their services solely based on VoIP in the middle, this move by Optus isn’t good news. In essence what Optus is doing and saying to their customers is if you’re their contractee, all calls go over the Optus network and the Optus long distance network. No dialing around. No call backs, … Read more
History always repeats. No question about that. First media form to grow big was the newspaper. Chains emerged. Profits soared. The most powerful force in any community was the newspaper. Think about it, every major comic strip from SuperMan, to the Green Hornet to Spiderman had the newspaper as a center piece of the story … Read more
Over the past month or so, both in the USA and in Europe I’ve been a big user of public transportation. Whether it has been a cab, private town car, the light rail or even the underground/metro or subway, I’ve been taking advantage of whatever mode gets me where I need to go the quickest. … Read more
Last weekend I went into RadioShack and grabbed one of the Acer Aspire One Netbooks for $99.00. Yes, I already have a few other Asus and even a original release Aspire One from six months or so back, but this one is different. It has 3G inside and works on HSDPA via AT&T. Add in … Read more
I spent more days on the road this past year than I care to count. New clients. New events. New places. The reason. My house was undergoing renovation, and so was my life. As a type A, Cell A performer, one who give no, and asks no quarter, my philosophy has been go to where … Read more
VoIP News’ Robert Poe picked 25 VoIP innovations he’s seen in 2008. I’m very pleased and have to agree with many of the picks, though I’m sure I could find a few more, many of which are on the business model side, versus the practical or cool. What I was pleased to see though was … Read more
It was back in 2005 when at the suggestion of a few friends at AOL, namely Jim Tobin, who is now at Comast, Cindy Harvey and Ragui Kamel invited me to “shake up” an AOL creative session by being the protagonist on a panel that included uber analysts Mark Winther of IDC and other that … Read more
Emerick Woods, the recently named CEO of client Global IP Solutions (GIPS) has taken a stab at what the year ahead looks like. I suspect we’ll see many more of these from others.
Over the past 20 months my travel has swelled from now and then to almost every week. It used to be I would worry about how I was going to go so far away and still stay in touch. But that's all changed. Over the past few years I've amassed both knowledge and a ton … Read more
Over the past 20 months my travel has swelled from now and then to almost every week. It used to be I would worry about how I was going to go so far away and still stay in touch. But that’s all changed. Over the past few years I’ve amassed both knowledge and a ton … Read more
