First we had “offshore banking,” the places the wealthy put their money. Then we had “offshore wagering,” the establishment of gaming operations in countries who were happy to have the business to improve their tax base so gamblers could place bets without oversight from the government and taxing authorities. Well now in the UK, if … Read more
Venture Beat pointed me to a new service called Qwitter. It lets you monitor your followers and see who quit. Neat. Very neat.
Twitter had some changes at the top this past week, and now that the economy is in the toilet, more and more times each day, people are going to be asking the painful question of “how are you going to make money?” Honestly, I started out as a non-fan, but I’m now seeing things in … Read more
The quarterly earnings call for eBay yesterday wasn’t a pretty picture but at least on the surface Skype’s numbers were positive. Chalk the revenues up to the Skype Unlimited plans. They look good on the balance sheet and provide a more consistent pattern of revenue.
This new travel router has a difference. It works with a 3’s 3G data stick. In many ways this is like Cradlepoint, the device I use to share my Sprint or ATT mobile broadband USB devices. These make sharing your Internet connection very easy. Try one. You never know who you’ll meet sharing the Net … Read more
Over in the UK the powerhouse team at STL included Martin Geddes and a few other excellent analysts who know what is news. Their latest news summary is a must read for those wondering what’s bubbling and about to burst into the mainstream business news cycles of telco and telecom.
I have to credit TMC’s Greg Galitzine with finding this story yesterday about the growth of residential VoIP. What’s becoming obvious and what has been for some time is that the baby Bells are really chasing the cable guys in moving their customers to VoIP. And the reason is they didn’t need to as their … Read more
Long time IDC VoIP Analyst, Will Stofega won’t be on the VoIP beat any more there. He’s moved up to lead the Mobile Device Technology and Trends Research at IDC. Rebecca Swenson, who has been on Will’s team at IDC, takes over on VoIP, Congrats to both!
Windows Mobile devices are one of the more popular platforms here in the USA so the new Global IP Solutions (GIPS) Video Engine announcement is a call for video and VoIP developers to get outside the box and begin thinking how they can bring real video to the mobile phone. CNET’s Crave blog also jumped … Read more
MaxRoam’s founder, Pat Phelan, picks up on my thread of how to be a better road warrior/Global Nomad with his recession busting travel tips. In many ways Pat picks up on some of my earlier tips, including client Boingo for hotel WiFi where he writes: Finally and most importantly get a Boingo account, Boingo were … Read more
