Recession Survival Guide from Esme Vos

One of the brightest bloggers I know is recovering attorney turned expert on WiFi, working at home and travel is Esme Vos. Her practical side comes through as she highlights 10 tips to survival in our challenging economic times. What’s warm to see is how she highlights two companies Working Anywhere loves, Truphone and MaxRoam. … Read more

Jon Arnold Reviews Jazinga

Jazinga is a client of my agency’s and we’ve been steadily putting their innovative one box does all device into the hands of the more informed and patient bloggers while the product goes through a series of beta trials. One of the bloggers/analyst 2.0 types was Jon Arnold who has just written a review that … Read more

Meeting Room Confusion Solved

A new service out of Dublin Ireland’s Active Online called BookMeetingRoom.com looks appealing to those who have to manage and organize meeting rooms and conference rooms. While it’s a tad pricey, the concept is very useful, and I can see the application of this with online web conferences, video conferences and audio conference booking. As … Read more

What HSUPA Means to VoIP

Dean Bubley has some insightful commentary about HSUPA and what it means to VoIP over 3G in his latest posting. I’ve used HSUPA on my Novatel Data Card via AT&T’s 3G network and clearly see the difference, especially with mobile video conferencing. There’s a major quality advantage with HSUPA over HSDPA as the upload seems … Read more

Michael Robertson Chides Ebay

In his weekly Michael’s Minute, my down the beach neighbor and friend Michael Robertson chides Skype for being implicit in the China snooping matter caused by Skype partner TOM. The concept Michael points out as being so wrong is called “implied consent” and it basically means that by not taking steps to prevent something from … Read more

Voice Apps Made Simple

Over the past few months my agency has had the good fortune of working with Irv Shapiro and his team at ifByPhone. Based in the northern suburbs of Chicago the company has customers, lots of customers, and is quietly rolling out app after app that solves real world problems. They have a whopper of an … Read more

WiFi on Trains (and Buses)

I’ve had the good fortune to use WiFi on the Heathrow Express when I’m in London. The experience, which is made possible by T-Mobile connects train mounted access points to 3G radios that are mounted in each car on the train. The experience has been good enough to hold video calls using SightSpeed and Skype … Read more

MSI Wind Grabbed By Best Buy

Pal Tom Keating tipped me off to the news that Electronista broke about the MSI Wind Netbook being sold soon at Best Buy. Joanna Stern at Laptop Magazine has been a very big fan of the MSI Wind for sometime, so it’s on my hit list of NetBooks to acquire. I’m already very pleased with … Read more

MSI Wind Grabbed By Best Buy

Pal Tom Keating tipped me off to the news that Electronista broke about the MSI Wind Netbook being sold soon at Best Buy. Joanna Stern at Laptop Magazine has been a very big fan of the MSI Wind for sometime, so it’s on my hit list of NetBooks to acquire. I’m already very pleased with … Read more

WiFi on Trains (and Buses)

I’ve had the good fortune to use WiFi on the Heathrow Express when I’m in London. The experience, which is made possible by T-Mobile connects train mounted access points to 3G radios that are mounted in each car on the train. The experience has been good enough to hold video calls using SightSpeed and Skype … Read more