Category: General
Live Coverage of the Olympics?
Sunday, July 29th, 2012 at 5:39 PM EST
By: Ari A lot has been and still is been written about NBCs practice of tape delaying all the major events from the London Olympics, as they have also done in past Olympics. All one needs to do is follow #NBC on Twitter to read the comments coming from superstars like Dirk Nowitzki to venture [...]
VoIP & Broadband: Another Olympic Spectacle
Thursday, July 26th, 2012 at 7:02 AM EST
Most people interested in the London Olympics are tuning in to their favorite sports. A few are focusing on various political issues surrounding the games. Then there are the self-admitted Nerds like me. I’m puzzling over the seemingly contradictory signals coming out of London about the use of wireless broadband connectivity, and thus broadband applications [...]
Phone.com at HackNY Demo Fest at NYU this Friday
Monday, July 23rd, 2012 at 9:52 AM EST
Phone.com is proud to be sponsoring this years hackNY Demo Fest taking place Friday July 27th on NYU’s campus. DemoFest provides a venue for fellows to present their projects in a “startup pitch” environment. HackNY fellows represent the best and brightest students from around the country and Phone.com is thrilled to support this educational program. [...]
UK SMEs Cite VoIP Savings
Tuesday, July 17th, 2012 at 2:58 PM EST
This just in from across the pond (that’s the Atlantic Ocean, in case anyone didn’t know): VoIP saves businesses money. That’s hardly news to most VoIP users, but quantifying just how much businesses are saving can be challenging. U.K. VoIP provider Telappliant, whose target market of small to medium sized enterprises (SMEs) is highly [...]
FCC Moves To Protect VoIP From Hurricane Outages
Wednesday, July 11th, 2012 at 10:23 AM EST
With the hurricane season now upon us – as I write this there have already been four named storms – the FCC has gone live with the expansion, to include VoIP and broadband services, of an information reporting system designed to help track and restore outages to communications services. While the most likely situation is [...]
VoIP War Rocks Baltimore City Hall
Friday, June 29th, 2012 at 6:58 AM EST
So it seems that the city of Baltimore came to the same conclusion as more and more enterprises of all sizes have – that switching to VoIP phone service can save lots of money. In the case of the municipal government of Baltimore, the estimate is millions of dollars per year. And that’s cold, hard [...]
Passbook Is THE Big Deal
Tuesday, June 26th, 2012 at 8:26 PM EST
Now that WWDC is over and most importantly to me the opening keynote I’ve spent some time thinking about it. I believe Passbook, Apples first steps into the mobile wallet are going to be monumental for small businesses. It has the potential to be the biggest game changer for the general public but more importantly [...]
Verizon Does Data, Can VoIP Be Far Behind?
Friday, June 15th, 2012 at 6:58 AM EST
Well, that didn’t take long. It was barely a week ago that I blogged about AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson predicting that cell phone companies will soon be offering data-only plans – a direct reflection of the growth of the use of VoIP over those phone, as part of an overall wireless data explosion, particularly as [...]
My Favorite iPad Apps
Thursday, June 14th, 2012 at 5:45 PM EST
With another last minute flight looming as a possibility next week I thought, do I need to bring my laptop or just the iPad. I’ll end up spending more time on the plane then I will on the ground so size matters, I don’t want anything as heavy as my laptop or with shorter battery [...]
One Bucket Of Data, Not Five, Is A Better Option
Wednesday, May 30th, 2012 at 3:05 PM EST
Here’s a quick thought for you for the day. Maybe even a conversation piece if you talk mobile. Why can’t we buy a bundle of megabytes from our cell phone carriers and use that bucket across all our devices. Let’s say I buy a 2GB data plan from Telco A, I can only use that [...]