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image courtesy of Gizmodo I’m over my winter malaise, and ready to look at the new Windows Phone 7 Series (WP7S) in a fairer light. I was helped with my MS aversion condition by a friend who happens to be … Continue reading →

Microsoft has introduced its new smartphone OS at the Mobile World Conference in Barcelona. It’s a complete tear down of Microsoft Mobile, and in its stead is a cleaner, “chromeless” experience.  Engadget has a review of the new UI for … Continue reading →

The FCC has decided today is weighing a request that would force cable providers and carriers to lease  FTTH (fiber-to-the-home)  lines to competitive carriers and application service providers. A favorable FCC ruling would be a major change in policy. Previously, incumbents … Continue reading →

Skype is taking its time with a VoIP app that exploits the recently unlocked 3G data channel on the iPhone. But they have a pretty good reason. They’re working on adding their own SILK wideband audio codec to  a 3G … Continue reading →

Will Skype be assumed into Avayatel? Or will it stand on its own in the Silver Lake portfolio and transform into an IPO butterfly? Bloomberg.com writers Edward Robinson and Joseph Galente think the latter is more likely. They have a  … Continue reading →

AT&T reversed  course and decided to allow Sling Media’s iPhone app to run on its network.   The app was previously viewed as a congestion hog, but  Sling  (under the supervision of AT&T) tweaked its software to lower bandwidth consumption.  iCall, … Continue reading →

Remember the iPhone? It’s like a smaller version of the iPad. Anyway, the tech press is all over the news that Apple unlocked VoIP calling within the iPhone SDK . The first app to take advantage is iCall (or maybe … Continue reading →

from David Pogue.  It sounds like he got it right:  it’s not an iPhone but more a “vessel”– I guess that means a portable platform– and really a “1.5 pound sack of potential.”

In November, I tuned into some of the keynote speeches at VoiceCon San Francisco.  These VoiceCon events are where  “enterprise communications’  vendors gather to talk about their latest initiatives  desktop business phone systems.  I  really do think there’ll continue to … Continue reading →

There’s been a long-standing competition  between centralization and distribution, two important but opposing ways of designing computer and communications systems.   With cloud computing (hosted services  in mammoth data centers)  the pendulum is moving back to centralization. There’s also been … Continue reading →