Over the past few months I've been privately sharing my thoughts on how the wireless landscape changes with the looming AT&T/T-Mobile merger coming upon us. With the news today about the cable guys and Sprint working to take over Clearwire (a part of the scenario I've already been talking about) I figured it's time to … Read more
Image via CrunchBase Late yesterday (Wednesday August 3) Om Malik at GigaOm wrote a post entitled "So What Happens to ClearWire's WiMax Network?" Well over a lovely pasta dinner tonight (see my Nosh of it on my page over on Google Voice founder Craig Walker's new venture Nosh.me) i got to chomp on Om's post as … Read more
Image via Wikipedia Let's face it. In the era of the Internet, a promise is a promise, unless of course it comes from your telco carrier. Back in the winter months Verizon Wireless let all Zoom owners and potential buyers know that their state of the art Android tablet, made by Motorola would be upgradeable … Read more
Image via CrunchBase Google left GoogleVoice off the list of presentations from Google I/O last week and Skype Journal's Phil Wolff is all upset and cranky. In a short terse post today the all things IP and Skype pundit and friend goes off on a semi rant asking: "Where’s the platform, folks? Will Skype’s platform … Read more
Image via CrunchBase So give props to pal Om Malik for breaking the story. Skype is going to Microsoft. It's a big win for a lot of people, most of all the original founders and it's a fit. As I wrote over the weekend there was little chance Google would really buy Skype. Too many … Read more
Wired, Reuters and others are reporting that Skype is in talks at preliminary stages for various types of tie ups with FaceBook and Google. No surprise. In the past Google took a good hard look at Skype and bought Gizmo instead, but that doesn't keep the corporate development teams from kicking the tires. Ever since … Read more
Image via CrunchBase I don't get it. Or really, corporate boards and senior management don't get it. There's Apple. And then there's everybody else. Apple is a different kind of company. They think different. They plan their products better and they execute better. It's that simple. They are product marketers first, and figure out which … Read more
Image via Wikipedia Sprint, the nations third mobile operator in size, but the company that has always been first in mobile and network innovation, has broken ranks with the rest of the mobile operators and embraced the concept of the Over the Top play with Google Voice. While the news will likely get overshadowed by … Read more
Image via Wikipedia Let’s face it, rumors create headlines, and sometimes reporters get it wrong. That’s the case this past weekend around Google and the non-launch of Google Circles. But, if reporters thought like Fred Shero, the late and former Philadelphia Flyers hockey coach, they would understand tendencies and patterns. Back in 1974 the Flyers … Read more
After all Google went through with Apple to get their GoogleVoice app into the App Store for the iPhone you might have expected some legal department compassion. Nope. Instead they have pulled the PhoneFusion Visual VoiceMail client from the Android Market reports GigaOm's Ryan Kim. PhoneFusion is a former client. They've built a very compelling offer … Read more
