Obvious, right.... In order to do things properly you either need to fire or hire the right people. I remember how Josh Silverman say on the Skype Mobile "to stay tuned". Basically the only thing that I remember from that Gigaom interview under a noisy sky... Could they really not [...]
Skype Journal |
October 11th, 2008 |
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Mobile carrier pioneer 3 has taken another step that reduces costs for mobile calling worldwide from any of the Skype-enabled mobile phone handsets in their offering. Effectively it means that 3's customers can not only make free calls to other Skype contacts but also to any landline and mobile worldwide [...]
Wireless Week |
October 10th, 2008 |
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Today’s flat rate pricing for mobile broadband is easy for consumers to understand and will encourage usage.[...]
LightReading |
October 10th, 2008 |
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Watching YouTube on your TV is finally easy - and it took a telco to make it happen![...]
One of the people with a long history in the communications space is Neal Shact (pictured) -- CEO of Communitech Services. In the past, Shacht has been a distributor in the headset market and has been early in many new markets such as VoIP, call centers and others.Shact points out [...]
Wayfinder has announced that Sony Ericson has extended the agreement on pre-loading the Wayfinder Navigator application onto its mobile phones. The application uses maps from Tele Atlas covering more than 70 countries, which can be downloaded to the handset avoiding data costs. Wayfinder has been providing maps on several Sony[...]
Russian broadband operator Comstar has implemented a nationwide VoIP network, provided by Nortel. Having obtained long-distance access area codes earlier this year, Comstar is now eager to begin offering long-distance telephony. It has indicated that it sees the Nortel Carrier VoIP solution facilitating local, inter-zonal,[...]
TeleGeography |
October 10th, 2008 |
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Thailand’s largest provincial fixed line telco TT&T; has suspended a THB50 billion (USD1.5 billion) investment plan due to the global financial crisis, in line with recent announcements by cellcos AIS and DTAC to scale back rollouts, reports the Bangkok Post. Prasitchai Kritsanayunyong, executive vice-president of TT&T;, said the company would [...]
Seeking Alpha |
October 10th, 2008 |
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I've written before about the slow arrival of HSUPA and the dearth of HSUPA-supporting devices in the market. Yes, there's a bunch of dongles & laptop modules and the like, but it really hasn't percolated down to phones that much at all. It's much slower than HSDPA was.Interestingly, it looks [...]
textually.org |
October 10th, 2008 |
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TrendHunter writes about Nokias new promotion involving a game/story event that plays upon our propensity to harbor potentially sensitive information on our cell phones. "How often have you gotten in trouble for pictures, videos, phone calls or text messages that have been sent or received on your phone? The Nokia [...]
textually.org |
October 10th, 2008 |
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Even though it has lost its sense of cool, Motorolas RAZR is still the best-selling cellphone in the U.S. more than four years after it first hit the scene, Electronista reports via mocoNews.net. "The latest NPD Group data puts the device above the second-place iPhone 3G, followed by the BlackBerry [...]
Skype Journal |
October 10th, 2008 |
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How open is open? Skype's Jonathan Christensen will be on a panel at the OpenMobileSummit. Open access for apps to carriers is on the menu. I'll be there, along with folks from AT&T, Sprint Nextel, T-Mobile, Orange, Vodafone, Verizon, Google, Amazon, AOL, Yahoo!, Nokia, RIM, Qualcom, Sun, Symbian, Funambol, Mozilla, [...]
Gizmodo |
October 9th, 2008 |
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Next2Friends has released the first live video streaming client for newer Blackberry phones, like the Curve and the Pearl. Similar to Qik or Justin TV, you download the Next2Friends client to your phone, and it streams to the internet whatever your camera records. Qik has been around on the N95 [...]
VoIP News |
October 10th, 2008 |
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Verizon Business has released a new managed unified communications and collaboration solution via Cisco Unified Communications Manager 6.1. The managed platform allows workers to integrate voice mail, email and instant messaging seamlessly. "Today's enterprise is faced with many new challenges, including how to enable employee productivity, do more with less [...]
Telco 2.0 |
October 9th, 2008 |
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We're delighted by the response to the event. There will 250-300 people taking part in the mass brainstorm, drilling down on how to turn two-sided business models into reality. Here's an example of some of people booked in: * Senior representatives from the corporate strategy departments of: BT, Telenor Group, [...]
Ars Technica |
October 9th, 2008 |
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A judge has dismissed a telco's entire lawsuit against a Minnesota community that decided to build its own fiber-to-the-home network.Read More[...]
Nortel yesterday unveiled a pair of unified communications (UC) offerings, including a bargain-priced bundle and a new IP migration kit for saving money by re-using existing hardware. Citing the current economic condition and the need for small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to “do more with less and streamline their[...]
Wireless Week |
October 9th, 2008 |
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Broadcom and Qualcomm are at it again. Back to federal court goes wireless chipmaker Broadcom as it has filed a complaint accusing Qualcomm[...]
Unstrung |
October 9th, 2008 |
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The Nokia WiMax tablet could arrive on the market in the next couple of weeks[...]
Telco 2.0 |
October 9th, 2008 |
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YouTube has been so successful that it's become one of the three applications that have fundamentally changed the infrastructure of the internet (email and the web are the others). As the first real 'broadband' application it has more than filled the pipes that were overbuilt in the boom time and [...]
