iSkoot Issue Solved With Blogosphere’s Help

PhoneBoy and to some extent Dan York get the gold stars here. Both are security experts and have a real expertise in Voice. Dan hosts a regular podcast and Dameon does a wide range of blogging. But at heart both are white hat hackers, and what Dameon did in finding the flaw in a released … Read more

RIM Admits Apple’s A Threat

The New York Time’s Brad Stone has a very interesting Sunday story about RIM (Research In Motion) communicating how much the iPhone is a threat to RIM today. What I’m finding interesting is how the world of mobile phones is really shifting to “smarter phones.” If you look at who is on the decline in … Read more

The French Want It Fast

If the law passes in France, then the all new buildings and high rise apartments will be fitted with fiber optic cable as part of a 15 billion dollar program to modernize and provide the citizens super fast Internet. Now, why can’t we do that in the USA?

PC World About T-Mobile’s HotSpot @ Home

PC World’s Stephen Manes has a mixed review about the trials and tribulations of canceling phone service with Quest and migrating to T-Mobile. I totally agree though with the closing line though, and it mirrors my advice some years back where I suggested consumers choose a company that will be around.

AT&T WiFi Live In San Antonio and New York

GigaOm’s Texas Rose Stacey Higginbotham tells us that AT&T has hotspots running in San Antonio. Yesterday KenRadio’s Ken Rutkowski told me he was in a New York City Starbucks on an AT&T connection and was already doing his best imitation of me…Complaining about the speeds vs. what they used to be like. Wanna guess which … Read more

No, Skype Mobile Is Not iSkoot

In a short and polite but still corrective email I was notified by iSkoot that my guess that they were supplying Skype with the mobile client for 30 new handsets was incorrect. They’re not…..HMMMM. That makes me realize some things, and apparently, so too is PhoneBoy who seems to have identified a very interesting problem … Read more

Skype On Your Mobile???

It looks like Skype (and my guess iSkoot) are slowly rolling out Skype on Mobile phones beyond what I experience in the UK over 3. While not yet available on every phone, I see it works on the Nokia N95 which I use in the USA, while unfortunately, it’s not yet on the E90 which … Read more