Yesterday Jeff Pulver and Tom Evslin issued their version of a 911 call filing a petition that is designed to dramatically reduce what long term outages mean to the public during and after Katrina like natural disasters. The petition is all about getting the FCC, which under Chaiman Martin has been less IP Voice friendly … Read more
According to sources inside Verizon the ultra-tiny and lightweight OQO is being tested and should be available for purchase with EVDO technology by June.
My friend Richard took the long way to San Jose and spent 26 hours getting here. But hey, VON is worth it.
Skype and NetGear back in January announced a WiFi handset. The problem was, as I pointed out to Skype’s PR team in advance of the announcement that the unit only handled one stage authentication, with Skype, not at the hotspot level. I raised the same question at the press conference to Patrick Lo, the NetGear … Read more
The ongoing battle over Net Neutrality continues. I’m of the mind to buy a T-1 and have real Internet access, unfeathered and unhindered, but I wonder if that will be the only way to really have unfettered access to the net and for how long?
Amtrak in the USA is seeing a steady fall off in ridership. Back in the 80s and early part of the 90’s I used to always enjoy taking the Metroliner from Philadelphia to New York City. It was fast, efficient and mostly on time. Now when I ride it, I use the EvDO card, just … Read more
Blogging is an international happening. VON and VoIP is international too. At our first blogger panel we had James Seng from Singapore on the panel. So this time around in San Jose I wanted a different perspective on the panel, one from someone deeply vested in the IETF, eNUM and not from North America. So … Read more
Just read the last three sentences…In my mind that direction is clearly underway as the eBayization of Skype is obvious.
PulverMedia has brought the concept of a show daily back to VON. Paul Kapustka, blogger, editor and journalist is going to lead the efforts. They are going to call it a print blog so my guess is the content will be replicated online and the stories can be commented on.
My friend, sometimes colleague and most of all, all around nice guy Bill Ryan, who helped Shel Israel and I with iotum, in their prep for their Demo God winning performance is the master of making short phrases matter. He coined the concept of “Speed To Cool” when asked how do you win the attention … Read more
