Mobility

Look! Up in the Sky...

November 10, 2008

It's such a cliché, but I can't help myself. It's my first Internet experience at 36,000 feet. I sent an e-mail to my brother in law: "You'll never guess where I am right now..." I remember those in-flight phones too, back in the day. Yes I called my folks the first time I was able to call from on high... In any event... I can finally say I've blogged from 38,000 feet.
American Airlines. GoGo Wireless.

Posted in Mobility, Personal, Video

TMC, Ex-VON Team Join Up for 4G Event, Web Site

October 30, 2008

TMC and Crossfire Media announced they were working together to produce 4G Wireless Evolution, comprising a Web site, an event, and other media to address a growing need for information regarding the next generation of wireless. 4G is the fourth generation of wireless communications, which is expected to be implemented globally in the next 2-5 years, and which will offer significantly faster speeds and broader applications than current wireless networks can allow. The result will be an influx of new technologies and a significant increase in the number of customers using wireless communications for a wide variety of uses. The 4G Wireless Evolution Conference is the first event dedicated to 4G technologies, and will take place February 2-4, 2009 at the Miami Beach Convention Center. Industry watchers will note that this collaboration brings together some familiar faces, working together for the first time. In fact, over the past several weeks, the TMC team of Dave Rodriguez, Michael Genaro and I have been meeting with our counterparts at Crossfire Media: Scott Kargman, Joann Varello and Carl Ford to hash out the details of the partnership and to build the conference program and the Web sites. It's amazing to see all that hard work come to fruition today with the official launch. Of course, now the work truly begins to make 4G Wireless Evolution the industry's #1 resource for all things 4G.

Posted in 4G, IP Communications, LTE, Mobility, Technology, WiMAX

Ifbyphone Launches iPhone Conferencing App

October 30, 2008

Posted in Enterprise, IP Communications, Mobility, Video, VoIP

Truphone for Blackberry Now in Beta

October 28, 2008

Posted in Enterprise, IP Communications, Mobility, Technology, VoIP

Nokia: Out of UC, In with Touch-Screen Phone

October 3, 2008

So, I received a note from Ovum Research with their take on the fact that Nokia is leaving the enterprise solution business, namely their IntelliSync unified communications play. According to Senior Analyst, Claudio Castelli of Ovum: Mobile unified communications involves high complexity and vendors should concentrate on their strengths instead of trying to provide end-to-end solutions. Nokia will no longer develop software solutions for enterprises. The company has recognized that it is unable to advance into the enterprise market as a standalone mobility solutions provider. Nokia will now concentrate its efforts on developing powerful user interfaces for its devices, which will be supported by its UC partners on their platforms- they include companies such as Microsoft, IBM, Cisco and Alcatel-Lucent.

Posted in Enterprise, IP Communications, Mobility, Unified Communications

#$%^&* Apple!

July 24, 2008

It figures. Do something to help the masses identify where they can get an iPhone 3G and Bam! No good deed shall remain unpunished. Earlier today I blogged about the Top Muffin iPhone 3G Availability Tracker, and how it was helping people find the iPhone 3G's they had been waiting for. Well guess what?

Posted in Mobility

iPhone Shortage Dissipating

July 24, 2008

Posted in Mobility

America for Sale?

July 15, 2008

Posted in Mobility

Mobile Giving and the MLB: A Grand Slam!

July 11, 2008

Here's a great concept... Use technology to help raise money for sick kids. This Sunday, the Washington Nationals and MLB.com will debut the use of "mobile giving" to benefit the creation of a Diabetes Care Complex for Children's National Medical Center.

Here's how it works: Fans can text the word "NATS" to 90999 to give $5 to support the work of Children's National Medical Center to fight pediatric diabetes, a growing concern in the Washington area and nationwide. While the July 13 game against the Houston Astros is the public launch of this initiative, people can donate between July 10th and July 31st. MLB.com, the Nationals, and Children's National Medical Center are partnering with the Mobile Giving Foundation, which enables nonprofits to accept donations from almost any phone and major cellular providers.

For further information about the Mobile Giving Foundation, visit their Web site. For further information about the Children's National Medical Center, located in Washington, DC, visit their Web site.

Posted in Mobility

Truphone Hits iPhone App Store

July 11, 2008

If you spend any time traveling internationally for business, you understand the challenge of maintaining a high level of connectivity while keeping costs down. Let's face it, international calling plans are expensive, and frankly the various roaming agreements can be confusing, leaving users trying to remember how much it costs to call from Prague to Paris as opposed to say Peoria or Portofino. Truphone today announced that their native VoIP client for the iPhone -- developed with Apple's own SDK -- is available at the online iPhone App Store. The application is currently available for download at no charge.

The company has been at the forefront of making mobile VoIP inexpensive and easy to use for some time now. The solution routes calls over WiFi, so if you're near a hotspot and need to make a call you can simply call up the Truphone application on your iPhone and place the call. Existing Truphone users will recognize the same simple process for initiating a call: one touch to open the keypad/dialer, the actual dialing of the digits (or simply select a contact from the iPhone's own address book), and one touch to launch the call. That's it.

Posted in Mobility, VoIP

Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Next

Greg Galitzine's VoIP Authority Blog

Mobility