An absolutely terrible experience in the heart of Silicon Valley. In the middle of my mail sync with Exchange I got a pop up saying the hotel has detected improper activity coming from my computer (a Mac Book) and slowed my speed to 56k (not that it was great before with speeds in 200k download … Read more
Trustive, one of the global hotspot roaming programs has joined up with Wayport. This opens up the USA market to Trustive’s European subscribers.
Jesse Kopelman has a guest column GigaOm and goes into lengthy detail about the next wave of mobile phone service that’s looming here in the USA and tells us who he expects the players to be. As a current EvDO mobile data user when I’m on the road, I can admit that voice today is … Read more
If you’re using VoIP here in the USA there is a good chance that the price of your monthly service will be going up due to an appeals court’s decision that says VoIP providers need to contribute to the Universal Services Fund.
Web collaboration leader WebDialogs was asked by Skype to tell the highly influential developer audience at O’Reilly’s Emerging Telephony (aka eTel) what its like to work with them. WebDialogs CTO Gershon Goren pulls no punches in this first hand experience based contributed article in eTel today.
It looks like the country of South Korea is determining who can run phone services based on VoIP. Starting this week USA servicemen based there will have to use South Korean based VoIP providers knocking out USA companies that have been working over there. No word if Skype is affected, as it appears that carriers … Read more
Social VoIP player Jangl moves into a more mature market with a new Facebook widget that allows anonymous calling between Facebook members.
The Jajah relationship with DT includes a five million dollar investment.
If you need to be online as you travel around the UK, you may want to make Wales your destination. A news account issued by Ofcom that appeared in Broadband Finder shows that Wales has more WiFi hotspots than any other country on a per million basis.
Italian Voice 2.0 company Abbeynet has signed its first big deal via BlueZebra to power directory based calling, reports GigaOm.
