February 2007

AT&T shuts down AllFreeCalls… for now!

February 17, 2007

Superior Iowa (pop 142) is a tiny place.  You can imagine the reaction at Superior Telecom Coop to AT&T’s lawsuit.  Tiny rural telecom company…. huge nationwide carrier…. small pockets…. deep pockets…. I imagine they got some legal advice, concluded that AT&T might be able to win the suit, and shut down all of their upstart [...]

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AOL and OpenID

February 16, 2007

Wow!  AOL has just experimentally implemented OpenID for all their members.  First Microsoft, now AOL… Google next? The implications of this are staggering.  Identity based services will be able to be built across networks without requiring multiple accounts, or competing identity schemes. 

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Clarity Communications Systems brews up a mix of location and PTT

February 16, 2007

I had the opportunity to chat with Clarity Communications Systems Inc VP of Business Development Tom Carter earlier this week.   Clarity is a wireless company focused on location based services and push to talk. They differentiate from competitors like Kodiak in two ways: market focus, and technology.  Kodiak is targeting the tier 1 player with a circuit switch [...]

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Enslaved by your Blackberry?

February 15, 2007

In Survey: Blackberry owners chained to work, Ars Technica writer Jacqui Cheng reports on SRG’s new Digital Life America study on the ‘Always On’ culture.  A third of the 1600 people surveyed said “Yes” when asked if Blackberry, and devices like it, chain you to work.  A third were neutral, and a further third disagreed.   Interestingly, 46% agreed [...]

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You might be annoying 60% of the population…

February 15, 2007

The Wall Street Journal has tapped into the controversy around phone calls and email messages during meetings.  Paul Kedrosky picked up on it with his comment that he thinks it’s OK to do it discretely, once in a while, but the sentiment from his commenters is running against.  Paul Sweeney points out that iotum’s Talk-Now [...]

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Improvising a microphone stand

February 14, 2007

I had a great morning with the Doug Steve and Matt from the BlackberryCool team.  They came in to shoot some video, and do an interview.  Part way through, it became necessary to improvise a microphone stand.  Puffy heart pillows to the rescue! Happy Valentines Day.

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iotum an interesting startup, says VoIP-News

February 14, 2007

There’s nothing better than seeing your company’s name in print.  VoIP-News released their list of the 25 “most interesting” VoIP startups, and iotum made the list.  Huzzah!  Here’s what they had to say: Iotum When the phone rings, who is it? Is the caller scheduled to be part of a teleconference? Has the person called three [...]

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T-Mobile bitten

February 14, 2007

In the world of PR, sound-bites are the sliver of seared foie-gras adorning your steak.  Having carefully constructed a story and a position, your hope is that a clever sound-bite will hook the reporter, and provide the flourish, the finish, that will really make the story fly.  In my days at Microsoft, we used to spend [...]

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Revver wins the battle of the video sharing sites

February 14, 2007

Preparing the Talk-Now demo video which I posted yesterday has been a fascinating odyssey.  Keeping in mind that I am an utter video neophyte, although I do have some skills as a still photographer, the result turned out pretty alright. This post, then, is for all the video-noobs out there like me.  It’ll save you [...]

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Blackberry 8800 debuts

February 13, 2007

The net is buzzing this morning with the announcement of RIM’s stylish new Blackberry 8800.  The business companion to the Pearl, this new device sports a full QWERTY keyboard, as well as onboard GPS, and the Pearls’ trackball (which is a huge improvement over the trackwheel!) but otherwise no other significant changes excepting the removal of the [...]

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