Image via Wikipedia Last night six of us gathered for the birthday celbration of a colleague and friend at one of London's more posh and upscale Indian dining spots, The Painted Heron, in the Chelsea section, not far from the Thames along the embakement. For the past five or six years I've been dining here … Read more
A few days ago T-Mobile in the USA went live with Bobsled, a VoIP service that ties into Facebook accounts for what I like to call Social Calling. Now out of the UK we have Telefonica's operating brand, O2, going live with a service, not that different from their parent's VOYP service offering. I think … Read more
Former client and CEO at Bridgeport Networks, now a part of client CounterPath, Mike Mulica, has joined OpenWave as CEO. Mulica is known best as a sales guy. My gut says he's there to sell the Openwave business as a whole or to sell of some of their patent portfolio. Broadsoft, in a move to strengthen … Read more
Why do credit card companies do the following: 1. Make you call in to tell them when you are leaving your market area? They already have my spending history. They know where I travel too based on prior usage patterns? 2. Why do they want me to sign my card? Forgery is easier than … Read more
Image by Getty Images via @daylife Morgan Peterson is the son of Joel Peterson, the famed Ravenswood master of Zinfandel. Raised on his parents winery, Morgan clearly developed a passion for wine, and over the past two years I've been turned onto his style of winemaking and like other second generation winemakers like pal Ethan … Read more
While 2012 will be an Olympic year in sports, it's also shaping up to be an olympic like year in the courts with the FCC and the nation's wireless, wireline and cable operators all competing for medal. Between the recent FCC Net Neutrality decision, and the AT&T–T-Mobile battle that everyone from Sprint to at least … Read more
The FCC wants text messaging and video to be part of E911 as a way to aid dispatchers and provide emergency respoders like police, fire and paramedics with a better idea of what they are up against. For many companies developing those tools that make the information richer and provide the delivery this will be … Read more
We are over conferenced. This week alone I will be at two, maybe three events and could be at more. TechCrunch Disrupt starts on Monday in San Francisco, CA Demo starts on Monday night in Santa Clara, CA-Attending IT Expo and a medley of co-conferences all start on Tuesday in Austin, TX-Attending/Moderating StartupCamp is Wednesday … Read more
Ever since Barons left the Del Mar Highlands locals in San Diego's North County have been always limited in where they can store wine offsite. While pal Art Kinberg has had his Vintage Storage location in Carlsbad for ten years and pal Gary Parker has rented lockers at Wine Sellar and Brasserie for over 20 … Read more
Image by LA Wad via Flickr It seems in Germany some of the ICE trains also have WiFi too. Just like the Acela's on the east coast here in the USA and a few of the Pacific Surfliner trains that run along the California coast between San Diego and Santa Barbara. Having used these in the … Read more
