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VON Shows Over

A Community Service Message I have been pretty silent about what has happened with Pulvermedia and the VON events because frankly, everyone else seemed to be covering the fact that the events are no longer taking place. Also, TMC used...

Posted on July 16, 2008 6:17 PM

Keep In Touch

If you haven't noticed, there will be more and more touch-enabled devices in your future. The craze seemed to get the biggest boost from the popularity of the iPhone interface which spawned a number of similar interfaces from competing phone...

Posted on June 11, 2008 8:17 AM

T-Mobile Lawsuit Repercussions

Rob Adler has an interesting take on the T-Mobile/Starbucks WiFi lawsuit at his Vantage blog. His point? That the PR hit of winning a lawsuit which takes away WiFi from millions of users will be extreme. I can't help but...

Posted on June 10, 2008 6:32 AM

T-Mobile Suing Starbucks

T-Mobile is already not thrilled AT&T will replace them as the service provider of choice in Starbucks stores, now the GSM-based service provider who was early to embrace WiFi is losing revenue due to the new AT&T/Starbucks promotion of free...

Posted on June 7, 2008 1:38 PM

Mobile Browsing Gets Better

Stacy Higginbotham over at GigaOm has some thoughts on mobile browsing and concludes that the mobile web browsing experience is still not great but it is getting better. She discusses a number of new and even existing companies who are...

Posted on February 15, 2008 8:10 AM

BT Fusion Gone

GigaOm reports that BT Fusion is going away to be replaced by a new service powered by HTC devices. Fusion is a convergence service that allows subscribers to make cheap or free calls via Wi-Fi into a BT broadband hub...

Posted on February 6, 2008 8:27 PM

Technology News Wrap Dec 27, 2007

It has been a slow news week as you might imagine and there have been a number of stories which have caught my eye. Stories wrapping up 2007 are rampant and one worth reading is from Mae Kowalke and is...

Posted on December 27, 2007 3:22 PM

What We Learned From the Skype Outage

As organizations move to VoIP and other forms of IP communications it is imperative they realize the world of IP is far different from the PSTN and circuit-switched networks of yesterday. While Internet Protocol is the protocol of the Internet...

Posted on August 20, 2007 4:26 PM

Om Goes Green

I am happy to report that Om Malik has launched a “Green blog” named Earth2tech. Om starts his post on the subject with the following comment: “Apparently like everyone else, we are going green!”   Yes, I know what Om...

Posted on July 22, 2007 11:59 AM

Ooma Hysteria

I received e-mails from a number of bloggers this morning linking to their stories about ooma, the latest p2p VoIP scheme promising free long distance to the masses. The difference between ooma and other p2p solutions like Skype is the...

Posted on July 19, 2007 11:44 AM

Nokia N800 The Real Story

What is the world’s toughest job at the moment? It has to be trying to compete head on with the iPhone. But as Om Malik points out, the Nokia N800 does a great deal of what the iPhone does not...

Posted on July 6, 2007 9:18 AM

Better Conferencing

When Om Malik sent an e-mail about 27 different ways to improve conferencing I thought to myself there was no way that there are 27 discrete things you can do to have better conferences. I guess I was wrong. Great...

Posted on January 29, 2007 9:14 AM