Suzanne Bowen
Helping to connect the most unlikely entities in order to create the best stories. I have 32 yrs of experience in telecom, teaching, blog and grant writing, business development, marketing, communications and public relations. My favorite pastimes are spending time with family and friends inside and outside, my career, the industry, running, traveling.
| 1. "Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition..." Barack Obama .....
2. "One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain." By Thomas Sowell
October 2009
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Lleida Spain SMS Mobile Operator, Enters USA Market with Florida
October 27, 2009Have you heard of Lleida? They are a leader in the new SMS over IP and more services. First, they are the first SMS mobile operator in Spain and a veteran member of GSMA. Second, what made me notice them was an excellent press release about their entry into the USA mobile operator market starting with Florida. We met at CTIA Wireless and Entertainment in San Diego this year where I recorded a quick interview with their CEO Sisco Sapeno on my CTIA playlist.
A final aside...
VoIP and Gaming Make New Friends, Nintendo DSi Next?
October 26, 2009Remember when Xbox brought VoIP to the world of gamers in 2004? In fact, Ventrilo and Teamspeak. Wii, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360 have offered VoIP clients. The following was on the official Nintendo site for only a short period of time before being pulled:
"To redeem a Nintendo DSi Download Ticket number, such as for the Nintendo DSi Speak Channel, enter the number off the Nintendo DSi Download Ticket in 'Settings and Features' off of the main Nintendo DSi Shop page, then select 'Nintendo DSi Download Ticket."
Really? Can't wait to see more. I asked my nieces and nephews their thoughts.
Conference Participants Compete Vietnam Communications 2009
October 19, 2009Arrived in Chicago last night for http://www.supercomm2009.com/didx and immediately realized my Nokia E71 is lost. But now it is found, and the savior will ship it to me today. I'm sitting in the lobby of our hotel which has free WIFI, breakfast, fitness center, and shuttle to CTA station. Browsing Twitter and Facebook, answering email, and noted a new BEST PRACTICE for conferences from KoreaTech.
Why are Early-stage and Start-up R&D Performing Firms Leaving Canada
October 15, 2009H. Douglas Barber and Jeffrey Crelinsten completing white papers that examine Canada's innovation performance and culture. They surveyed 18 early-stage or start-up R&D firms in Canada. Ten were insolvent and the other 8 either merged or sold out with 5 of them profitably.
The main problems appeared be either no emphasis on sales and customer service and all emphasis on r&d development and a preoccupation with development and ideas led to fast "burn rate." Also lack of shared goals, lack of diversity and experience on the Board, "lack of enterprise expertise amongst investors, and general lack of enterprise competence and experience."
Robin Williams once said on his Live on Broadway session, "Canada's like a loft apartment over a really great party."
Hmm...
Apps Like Truphone Reduce Dependence on Transportation?
October 5, 2009My Dad was an airplane mechanic in the U.S. Navy, and when he retired, switched to automobile mechanics. (Somewhere in between he took a break with theology.) We were talking about cars last week in the middle of me making him a guinea pig in testing different mobile voip applications and instant messenger applications with voice on laptop to laptop. This conversation which I meant to record was on Truphone.
The conversation was about the history of the battle between the environment and automobiles.
Podcasts Let you Market on MP3 Players
October 2, 2009Bending the Needle, Fresh Air, VoIP Users Conference and Geekspeak galvanized me to start podcasting. What a choice! What a garden! What a candy store! Just download to your favorite MP3 player, go for a walk, be entertained and/or educated.
So when will you start podcasting? Everyone's doing it. Why not? It's fun.
