Back at the FCC: VoIP Slamming is Still Legal
You remember slamming? That’s the practice of switching a landline subscriber’s phone service without permission. While this carrier thievery still goes on, there are Federal …
Category: Archaic Telecom
NJ-based iSpeech Has a Great Speech Platform
iSpeech is a Newark-based–yes, you read that right–startup that has created a very useable and practical cloud-based text-to-speech and speech-rec platform. I hadn’t really thought …
My Coffee with Open Garden’s Micha Benoliel
One of the advantages of Manhattan’s Union Square area is the high-concentration of coffee shops, startups, WiFi, and visiting San Franciso-based entrepreneurs. On a recent …
More Tales from Startup Alley: Aurality Kinda Reads the News
I’ve always liked the idea of having an app that would read the New York Times to me as I was unwinding on the 5:45 …
More Tales from Startup Alley: KipCall’s number-free VoIP App
KipCall is a modest VoIP app that I came across at TechCrunch Disrupt NY. Similar to a few other well-known consumer models wherein you don’t …
Tales from Startup Alley: Uberconference Disrupts Voice Conferencing
Hard to believe, but there are two great conferencing apps at TechCrunch Disrupt NY. I just wrote about Oovoo and what they’ve done with video. …
Tales from Startup Alley: Oovoo Makesover Videoconferencing
Life has tasked me with writing about telecom topics–someone has to do it. But for TechCrunch Disrupt, I usually don’t have to take on this …
FCC to Approve Spectrum for Medical Devices
At their May board meeting, the FCC is set to allocate frequencies in the 2360 to 2400 MHz spectrum for short-range, low power medical use. …
Bloomberg TV Can Move into Comcast’s Nonexistent News Neigborhoods
Last summer, I wrote about the mind-numbingly tedious battle between Comcast and Bloomberg over whether Bloomberg’s news channel was being exiled to television Siberia in …
AT&T-Verizon Infographic
Our friends at The Simple Dollar, a consumer-focused blog, have put together an infographic showing how AT&T and Verizon dominate the US wireless market. There’s …
Back at the FCC: Maps and Meetups
I haven’t visited the FCC’s website in recent months. At least since the FCC’s Heimlich maneuver that forced AT&T to cough-up T-Mobile. While some in …
Clicks-to-Call on iPad With Help From SIP
When a little free time opened up last week, I scanned my long-term task list to find “VoIP softphone for my iPad” was still unfinished …
Cisco Has 100K Twitter Followers!
They announced this social media milestone on their blog, The Platform. They’ve also analyzed the 100,000 profiles and associated tweets to come up with a …
3D Standard Announcement at CES
We have one eye scanning news coming out of the Consumer Electronics Show underway in Las Vegas. And with 3D on our minds lately–see last …
And Now a Few Words From Our Keynote Speaker, Mohamed ElBaradei
When I was more actively going to big trade shows and conferences, the star speaker was usually a meaty high-level executive (of the biggest sponsor) …
Best Bits From the FCC Report on AT&T Merger
So much to choose from! I’ve gotten through the first half of the FCC’s analysis of the AT&T-T-Mobile merger. To my utter lack of surprise, …
Unleash App Inventor’s Small Biz Potential
A few weeks ago I received a review copy of Ralph Roberts’ “Google App Inventor” from the ebook publisher Packt Publishing. I took a quick …
Cisco Flames HP’s Non-Compete
In the mostly bland world of corporate blogging, we almost did a spit take with our espresso this morning while scanning Cisco’s “The Platform.” Mark …
US vs. AT&T: Pre-Trial Paper Wars
They argued over lists and schedules and experts witnesses and limitations placed on adverse witnesses and written versus oral testimony and perhaps the number of …
Broadband for the 33%: FCC Implements Low Cost Service Program
An underpinning of the National Broadband Plan is Universal Service Fund reform and greater broadband adoption. The Plan calls for the creation of a Connect …