Monthly Archives: December 2011
The best of …
Friday, December 30th, 2011 at 10:46 AM EST
So many predictions for 2012 and so many summaries of 2011 – so here is another summary of the summaries: TheStreet: The Best Tech Stories of 2011 The Wondrous: Top 20 Anticipated Tech Products Concepts 2012 CNN: The Top 10 Tech Trends for 2012 Engadget: Tech’s biggest misfires of 2011 Techcrunch: The top [...]
The 2012 Crystal Ball
Thursday, December 29th, 2011 at 9:41 AM EST
It’s the time of the year when columnists write about either the past year (That Was The Year That Was) or about their predictions for the coming year. In other words we can be either historians or gurus of one sort or the other. (“Columnist,” by the way, is an archaic term for “blogger.” [...]
FCC Recruits VoIP Guru
Wednesday, December 21st, 2011 at 8:29 AM EST
In what is being widely seen as a major coup for the VoIP industry, the FCC has named the co-author of two key VoIP technologies as its new Chief Technical Officer (CTO). Word on the street is that this augers well for the entire industry. The new CTO is Henning Schulzrinne, who most recently has [...]
Ari Rabban Will be speaking at PTC’12
Sunday, December 18th, 2011 at 9:51 AM EST
Honolulu, Hawaii, January 18, 2012 - Ari Rabban Phone.com CEO will be speaking at PTC’12. Topic of the discussion: Will Social Networks Become the New Telcos? Telcos have a love/hate relationship with social networks, such as Facebook. On the one hand, social network apps are driving the strong increase in mobile data and handset revenues for [...]
Cutting the Cord Compromise
Monday, December 12th, 2011 at 8:37 AM EST
I was talking to a young friend of mine (young as in he and his wife just had their first child) and asked for his home phone number. He didn’t have one. As it turns out, he’s one of the growing horde that’s “cut the cord” and lives only with a cell phone. The bottom [...]
Small Business, Starbucks and GoogleWallet
Wednesday, December 7th, 2011 at 8:48 AM EST
I was reading two articles this morning that really caught my attention. One is about GoogleWallet and the other about Starbucks. Both caught my attention and got me thinking about how they affect small businesses. GoogleWallet as you may know is a Google service with the premise of using your mobile phone as a credit card to make [...]