Image via WikipediaFirst we chatted about Vint Cerf‘s proposal that ISPs should guarantee minimum bandwidth to their customers. The engineering problems with guaranteed bandwidth appear to be the achilles heel of Cerf’s proposal.
We also chatted a little about the reports from the Wall Street Journal and others this morning that AT&T is getting into the cloud computing business.
And finally, we talked about Apple’s admission that MobileMe was released too early. Not much controversy there, and we ended up talking mostly about the business prospects for iPhone, and the consumer prospects for BlackBerry.
Today’s show was recorded in the lobby of the Toronto Hilton. Voice was by Blackberry, and I ran Calliflower on iPhone which I had tethered to the 3G connection running on my Nokia E71 using the Joiku mobile hotspot. It was a fun bit of geekery, and worked remarkably well.
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Alec Saunders is the Vice President of Developer Relations for BlackBerry make Research in Motion. This is his personal blog, with his personal viewpoints. Prior to this Alec was the CEO and co-founder of Calliflower — the easiest way to hold a meeting, online, on a conference call, or on the go. A double-decade veteran of product management and marketing, he spent nine years at Microsoft where he helped launch Windows 95, the first two versions of Internet Explorer, the Universal Plug and Play initiative, the push into home markets, opt-in email marketing and what might well go down in history as the very first direct email list ever.
