(Photo credit: Wikipedia) Getting the SFR Paycard up and running was mostly an easy experience. Going to the product website, and using Google Chrome which translates foriegn langueges on the fly, made it easy. I went to the activate page, filled out the form, and found that I needed to use an address in France, … Read more
With the demise of Travelex's Euro or British Pounds availability in the USA while they and MadterCard sort out their differences I have been searching for a new way to not get caught up in the PIN code less traps around Europe. The SFR PayCard, sold in France may the answer so over the next … Read more
Image via CrunchBase AT&T Princess Signature Telephone (Photo credit: MarkGregory007) If you remember ever asking "do you have a toll free number" or if you have ever dialed one, you always were thinking how calling that number saved you money, and maybe realized that the cost was being paid for by the receiving party. Most … Read more
Over the past few months I have been all over Europe and been testing SIM card purchasing for smartphones and tablets. In France and Spain, Orange previously had been a bit of a challenge. Not any more. In Madrid obtaining a Nano SIM for the iPhone 5 at Vodafone was impossible but Orange had them. … Read more
Image via CrunchBase Image via CrunchBase Back in the heydey of VoIP, circa 2006/2007 GrandCentral was the "buzz and da bomb" quickly gaining likely some hundreds of thousands of users before getting snapped up by Google and turned into GoogleVoice. But they had rivals, not direct competition, but services that did different things. Two of … Read more
New TeleGeography Map (Photo credit: Emilie Ogez) Image via CrunchBase It's time to bring down Skype. I don't mean take their network down. No way. But Skype is now about as pedestrian as the telcos that Skype sought to bring down, and in reality did. Skype has taken a stranglehold in the International long distance … Read more
Image via CrunchBase Note to the Tony Bates-if you have customers, bill them as Skype, not an unknown, back office company. It's called Branding 101. You see, it's been a few years since Skype started to charge for services, so one would think that in an era of global transactions that they would get their … Read more
8×8's CEO Bryan Martin was featured in an NBC TV news feature in the Bay Area about the second coming of the technology boom in Silicon Valley as the Nasdaq, where many tech companies list their stock reached a twelve year high. Watch the video. My take–we're seeing a new renaissance of sorts in technology. … Read more
The San Diego area is known largely for bio-tech and mobile leadership, largely due to Qualcomm and its dominance on the local technology scene. But quietly, the region is becoming home to some of the more rapidly growing VoIP companies on both an infrastructure level. Whose here? Well for starters here's three—Sansay, Phone.com and Telcentris. … Read more
AT&T, T-Mobile and Boingo jointly participated in a media event this week in New York's Times Square Station announcing the arrival of wireless coverage in 30 underground stations operated by the MTA, New York City's transit authority. Like in London, the coverage and services are tied to existing operators. No information was provided for people … Read more
