March Madness Update

Jeff Pulver’s post reminded me that I need to make it easier to be found in this mad month of March. Next week is eComm. Be there or be behind the curve of what’s really emerging in voice, video and real time communications. There’s also the IDG Voice Summit on Tuesday which I hope to … Read more

Forbes Ranks Airport WiFi..I Disagree

Forbes somehow came up with a methodology to measure and rank airport WiFi. Unfortunately, my first hand experience in San Diego, Phoenix, Las Vegas and elsewhere, where the WiFi is free has demonstrated that Free is rarely as good as paid. I caught up with Boingo CEO David Hagan who had some pointed and very … Read more

So What’s New?

Stuart in his post yesterday basically asked what’s new? I agree. In many ways he’s right. A lot of what we see these days is really what I keep calling “Me Too, Me Also, not Me Different” from many companies. That’s why eComm should be very exciting. Many new companies will actually be showing NEW … Read more

Small Office Systems Coming to Light

Last year we worked with Telephony2, a small angel backed company that had a killer telephony service suite for SOHO based on .Net. This year we’ve seen TokTumi and now Jazinga come to market. My question is not if there is a market, but how any of these companies plan to get to the market. … Read more

In The VON Innovators Circle

Yesterday the news broke about 65 companies that the VON and PulverMedia team consider innovators with the launch of the VON Innovators Award. I’m happy to say that of the 65 companies I’m aligned with five of them, four of which I advise or which my agency, Comunicano handles their external communications. Congratulations to Agito … Read more

Fring Touting GPS Tracking IM Using Google Maps

I’m not so sure that using Fring is a good idea if you want any kind of privacy. While Fring’s privacy settings on the handset require enable you to switch the fringME! location feature on or off this whole idea of tracing someone’s movements is getting a little extreme. Since a lot of people pass … Read more

All Hotel Networks Are Not Created Equal

One of the things about hotel networks I’m learning is they are not always the same. I can be in a hotel with T-Mobile and a second WiFi provider and in the end, T-Mobile wins. For some reason the other networks usually block some port, do something with NAT, or make it impossible for WiFi … Read more