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Interviews with Top 60 VoIP Movers and Shakers...

Rich Tehrani has a nice roundup of 60 interviews he's done with many of the major "movers and shakers" in the VoIP / IP communications industry. Rich writes: Whenever I go to a conference, I learn a tremendous amount from...

Posted on September 5, 2008 2:59 PM

Apple's Got a Few Blemishes of Late ...

So much good news and now so much bad news. The Apple rumor mill is churning, but this week it's about software fixes instead of new products. News reports are raising expectations of yet another iPhone software fix next month....

Posted on August 25, 2008 6:01 PM

AT&T CallVantage One Step Closer to Oblivion

As I predicted on July 3rd, AT&T would soon be dropping its CallVantage broadband VoIP service since they dropped their affiliate marketing channel.Well, today I learned that AT&T is no longer accepting ANY new orders from ANY source - affiliate...

Posted on August 15, 2008 3:34 PM

LG: #2 in Mobile and Trying Harder

LG Electronics, the South Korean mobile phone manufacturer, has overtaken rival Samsung to take second place in the U.S. handset market behind Motorola in the latest quarter. The figures, prepared by Strategy Analytics, a Boston-based research firm, underscore the...

Posted on August 12, 2008 3:10 PM

Apple Stays Exclusive with AT&T -- Boo!

According to USA Today, AT&T and Apple have agreed to extend their exclusivity relationship through 2009, meaning the next iPhone will be made specifically for AT&T service. The report claims that Apple originally signed the deal with AT&T through...

Posted on August 1, 2008 7:16 PM

Tom writes 'iHate My iPhone Because its iDead'

Tom Cross, a TMCnet blogger, is not happy about his iDead iPhone. He's lost all his iPhone songs, contact information, favorites, vmail and everything else. AT&T couldn't even recover his voicemail password, thus he was forced to wipe all...

Posted on July 12, 2008 3:09 PM

AT&T Dropping CallVantage?

Just got this email stating that as of July 7th, AT&T will no longer offer CallVantage through their affiliate channel. To me, this is "codeword" for "we're no longer promoting CallVantage and expect AT&T to end CallVantage entirely in the...

Posted on July 3, 2008 2:51 PM

8x8, Inc. Awarded New VoIP Patent

8x8, Inc. the provider of the Packet8 broadband Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), videophone and mobile VoIP communication services, today announced that it has been granted U.S. Patent No. 7,394,803 entitled "Distributed Local Telephony Gateway." The patent was issued from...

Posted on July 2, 2008 1:42 PM

Nokia N78 Comes to U.S.

Gadgety mobile phone lovers across the United States can now buy the newest Nokia Nseries device -  the Nokia N78, which hits American store shelves today. Featuring integrated A-GPS, a 3.2 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics and high-speed HSDPA...

Posted on June 24, 2008 11:41 AM

Apple & AT&T Heading for Splitsville?

CNET recently ran a great story about how Apple and AT&T may be at the end of their exclusivity deal with the iPhone. Ahh, the stuff that dreams are made of ... Read the whole story -- with surmises...

Posted on June 12, 2008 2:20 PM

New iPhone the BlackBerry Killer?

Although the CNet blog builds a pretty good case for why the new iPhone will replace RIM's BlackBerry as the mobile phone of choice in the business market, me thinks it boils down to three little letters why not...

Posted on June 10, 2008 2:06 PM

Touch-Screen BlackBerry Coming!?

According to reports in today's Wall Street Journal and on CNBC, pesky Research In Motion (RIM) plans to introduce a touch-screen version of its BlackBerry to thwart the challenge posed by the popularity of Apple's iPhone. (And no wonder...

Posted on May 16, 2008 1:12 PM

So What Did Mom Get?

Now that Mother's Day has come and gone -- and I hope it was a happy day for all! -- curious to know what gadget mom got? You mean you stuck with flowers and candy?! We went for a...

Posted on May 12, 2008 11:07 AM

AT&T Can't Make Up Its Mind

What's a major telco to do when it can't make up its mind? Put things on the website one day and then remove them the next? Here ya go? AT&T has flip-flopped again on whether iPhone customers can get...

Posted on May 9, 2008 5:28 PM

AT&T To Give iPhone Wi-Fi Hotspot Access?

We can never get enough iPhone news or juicy rumors, so here we go again! According to MacRumors, AT&T's iPhone website (under the Plans tab) has been updated to note that each iPhone plan now includes access to their...

Posted on May 8, 2008 5:07 PM

Telcos Join Forces to Battle Skype?

According to analysts at ThinkAnton (ThinkPanmure), AT&T and other international incumbents plan on launching a global Skype competitor. "We believe that AT&T, in conjunction with perhaps 10-15 other incumbent operators such as British Telecom, Deutsche Telekom, and NTT, is preparing...

Posted on May 6, 2008 12:31 PM

Who's the Best in Cell Carrier Land?

Been thinking about changing cell phone companies again and wanted to find out what the faithful readers of this blog have to say about the various companies. Let's see ... I've been on Sprint, AT&T and Verizon over the years,...

Posted on May 2, 2008 8:48 AM

AT&T to Lay Off 1.5% of Workforce

AT&T announced today that it'll be cutting about 1.5 percent of its workforce. The company calls it the "next step in streamlining its operations." AT&T had about 310,000 employees at the end of 2007, meaning the layoffs would affect about...

Posted on April 18, 2008 11:39 AM

AT&T CallVantage Major Outage...

I have received an unconfirmed report of a major outage for AT&T CallVantage, which is AT&T's VoIP broadband service. I was emailed the following: "At 2:00 pm the voice system is now stating that they have a major outage." Gee,...

Posted on March 20, 2008 4:10 PM

AT&T U-Verse Batteries Exploding

AT&T just can't catch a break with their troubled U-Verse service. AT&T has to replace the lithium metal polymer batteries in the VRAD cabinets for U-Verse IPTV because four fires have occurred in various locations. 'Fire' is a bit...

Posted on January 16, 2008 11:41 AM

Buh Bye Payphone

RTTNews is reporting that AT&T will quit payphone business by 2008 due to competition from cell phones. According to the Federal Communications Commission, the number of pay phones nationally has dwindled to 1 million as of 2006 from 2.08 million...

Posted on December 3, 2007 1:25 PM

flashphone Beta Running on Adobe Flash launches

As you know, I've discussed Adobe getting into VoIP in the past where you can use a 100% Flash softphone application. Since the vast majority of PCs, Macs, PockePCs, Windows Mobile, and other operating systems all have Flash installed, in...

Posted on November 6, 2007 12:08 PM

AT&T U-verse DVR Throughout the Home

AT&T U-verse customers have been complaining about lack of DVR (Digital Video Recorder) support that works throughput the home. Sure, you can get a single DVR box, but you can't view the recorded (or paused) content in the rest of...

Posted on November 5, 2007 2:52 PM

AT&T Delaying Deployment of Competitors' fiber lines?

Connecticut's Public Utiltiy Control could impose rewards or penalties that level the playing field for telecom and cable providers of voice and broadband service who say the owners of utility poles have been unfairly delaying utility pole connections for fiber-optic cable....

Posted on July 11, 2007 12:02 PM

AT&T Boosts EDGE Speed for iPhone?

AT&T customers are seeing a sudden boost in EDGE speeds - reaching 200kbps, seemingly coinciding with the Apple iPhone launch. EDGE users are ecstatic over the speed bump. In fact, I overheard some iPhone users saying "Prepare iPhone for 2.5G...

Posted on June 29, 2007 10:27 AM