Monthly Archives: February 2012
Bell Labs
Sunday, February 26th, 2012 at 11:06 AM EST
Inspired by a new book by Jon Gertner today’s New York Times has a great story about Bell Labs the great AT&T and for a short time Lucent Technologies engine for pretty much all telecom innovations for so many decades. Today it is just a shadow of its former self as part of Alcatel-Lucent. I [...]
BYOD And Save Your Company Money
Friday, February 24th, 2012 at 6:52 AM EST
BYOD is a relatively new acronym standing for Bring Your Own Device. It’s a concept many small businesses are embracing for many reasons. It allows employees to bring their own hardware to the work place and use them as an alternative to the company provided option. This cuts the cost for the company and in [...]
Phone.com Investor ff Venture Capital Talks To TechCrunch TV
Friday, February 17th, 2012 at 3:07 PM EST
The founder of ff Venture Capital John Frankel (Twitter.com/John_Frankel) and David Teten (Twitter.com/DTeten) who joined ffVC last year both got interviewed by TechCrunch’s Erick Schonfeld (Twitter.com/ErickSchonfeld). They talk about a few subjects from raising capital to how they invest it in new companies. What I thought was most interesting was how they choose a [...]
The FCC Is Enhancing Restrictions On Robocalls
Thursday, February 16th, 2012 at 12:51 PM EST
“The FCC is giving American consumers some help to keep a little more peace and serenity in their homes”. This is some refreshing news from the FCC, they’re going to tighten the restrictions on automated or robocalling telemarketing calls. Companies will have to have written permission from you to harass you on your home phone [...]
Mobile VoIP Via VoLTE Inches Closer To Reality
Wednesday, February 8th, 2012 at 4:27 PM EST
Surfing the web this week I stumbled across a somewhat techie little piece of news that’s actually big news for VoIP users, particularly the massive body of potential mobile VoIP users. It seems that back on Dec. 23 Qualcomm and Ericsson completed the first voice call handover from an LTE mobile network to a WCDMA [...]
M.I.T. To Offer Free Coursework
Monday, February 6th, 2012 at 12:00 PM EST
Recently someone brought to my attention something world changing. It’s not like asteroids are falling to earth world changing but it could change the many peoples lives. Let me just get right to it. M.I.T. the world renowned university in Massachusetts is going to start offering approximately 2,100 courses for free under the name M.I.T.x. [...]
Tablet Or SmartPhone As A Desktop Replacement?
Saturday, February 4th, 2012 at 8:58 PM EST
I was reading an interesting post by Andy Abramson this morning where he talks about desktop phones versus tablets or smart phones. The question is, why buy/use a traditional desktop phone (even if it is an ip phone) instead of the alternative, tablet or mobile phone? My first response would be the ease of [...]
Working But Out Of The Office Using Our Mobile Office App
Thursday, February 2nd, 2012 at 10:22 PM EST
Over night my daughter got sick and my wife and I were up with her most of of the night. As a result my wife stayed home from work today and even though I work from home , I haven’t been in my office yet. We’re focusing on our daughter but I still have to [...]