October 2007

Free passes to Interop / Web 2.0 Expo Berlin

October 25, 2007

Suzanne Bowen has a couple of free passes to Interop / Web 2.0 Expo in Berlin on November 5 through 8.  If interested, she can be reached at +1 850 375 9276, by email at suzanne@supertec.com, and on Facebook as Suzanne Bowen.

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IP Convergence TV Portal launches

October 25, 2007

My friend Jon Arnold dropped me a note yesterday about his new project, the IP Convergence TV portal.  Jon's the editor for this portal, which is a non-profit initiative that Comverse has put together. A group of charter sponsors including Intel, AudiCodes, Tilgin, BEA, Blueslice and others contribute in-kind by providing content about all the various [...]

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Crazy for Facebook

October 25, 2007

There's a fun dialog going on between Jeff Pulver, Moshe Maeir, and Shel Israel over Facebook adoption in Israel.  It's sprinting towards 100K users.  As Jeff notes, that's a little more than 1% of the total population.  Since October 14th, when Jeff spoke at VON Israel, it's grown from 70,000 to 97,000, which is remarkable since [...]

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Verizon to share customers' personal information

October 25, 2007

Alarm bells are being raised south of the 49th parallel over plans by Verizon to share subscribers' CPNI records with third parties.  CPNI, or customer proprietary network information, comprises users’ calling records and includes the numbers of incoming and outgoing calls and time spent on each call, among other data. CPNI is therefore the key to delivering [...]

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When error messages deceive…

October 24, 2007

Within minutes of the announcement, I had RIM’s new Facebook application loaded on my Blackberry and was showing it off around the office.  As the CEO of a company with products on both Blackberry AND Facebook, this is terribly exciting.  Status updates, friends lists, friend adds, pokes, wall posts, and messages are all available over [...]

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RIM & Facebook team up

October 24, 2007

In the category of "obvious, but I didn't anticipate THAT" comes the revelation that RIM is partnering with Facebook to deliver Facebook for the Blackberry.  Announced at CTIA today, the software will be available for download later today from RIM and Blackberry. Wow!  

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Consumers rarely exceed cellular plans.

October 24, 2007

The phenomenon of "breakage" is well understood in the gift card and prepaid phone card industries.  Breakage is the unspent amount on the card, which is pure profit for the company selling the card.  What about breakage in the cellular industry, though?  The wild profits earned by cellular carriers from overage — consumers exceeding their [...]

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Venture Capital isn't the only way.

October 24, 2007

If you're raising money in Canada, Suzi Dingwall-Williams has published a summary of some of the ways that a startup can finance itself.  The key message?  Venture funding isn't the only way.  In fact, there are many ways to raise money. Venture capital may be one of the toughest in today's environment, where reportedly VC [...]

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Viral testing. How large a conference call can we organize?

October 23, 2007

We'll be doing a little load testing on the iotum FREE Conference Call application tomorrow afternoon.  I've invited 39 of my friends to join me on a test call.   With a little luck, the facebook viral gods will turn my 39 friends into 390 or so as they each tell two friends and so on and so on and [...]

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Mobivox hires COO: former Skype Exec Nitzan Shaer

October 23, 2007

Montreal's Mobivox is making news again this morning, with the appointment of Nitzan Shaer as COO.  Shaer will also join the Mobivox board. Shaer's background? EIR at IDG Ventures in Boston Head of Skype Mobile, where he led development and marketing efforts that made Skype available on leading mobile phone platforms, including Nokia, Motorola and [...]

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