Category: connectivity

5 January 2009

Skype, Truphone, and Boingo: It’s All Related

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Today’s been a relative cornucopia of news …

17 November 2008

Boingo Taking Over WiFi on Washington State Ferries

Filed under: Services, connectivity, mobile phones, wifi - 17 Nov 2008
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A couple years ago, I found out they were putting WiFi on …

9 November 2008

CTIA Against Spectrum Caps, Against Competition

Filed under: connectivity, mobile network operators, politics, telecom - 09 Nov 2008

The latest post on the CTIA blog didn’t make a lot of sense. They were arguing against spectrum caps. Of course, they did nothing to directly explain what spectrum caps are …

28 October 2008

Former VON Stars Team Up With TMC On 4G Conference

Filed under: connectivity, people, voip - 28 Oct 2008

One of the things that was a shame about the implosion of Pulvermedia earlier in the year was many, many talented folks were suddenly out of a job. Of course, with the down economy, a lot of people are either …

21 October 2008

Comcast Cranking Up The Speeds

Filed under: connectivity, telecom - 21 Oct 2008
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GigaOm and DSL Reports are both reporting …

4 October 2008

T-Mobile @Home and UMA: It Works

While it’s been kind of a rough week workwise, with the announcement of Nokia selling off the Security Appliance business, I did get a couple of new phones to play with: …

29 August 2008

Comcast Finally Makes 250GB Cap Official

Filed under: connectivity, telecom - 29 Aug 2008

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Slashdot is reporting something we suspected all along, but now is going to be the stated law of …

22 August 2008

Aircell Isn’t Blocking all Forms of VoIP

Filed under: Services, business, connectivity, travel, wifi - 22 Aug 2008

Andy made a big splash on Twitter (and throughout the blogosphere) when he announced that he had a call on an airplane thanks to Phweet. I, of course, don’t deny it happened, but …

12 August 2008

Why AT&T’s $10 DSL Matters

Filed under: connectivity, telecom - 12 Aug 2008

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My vacation to Alabama was an eye-opening experience on many fronts. Perhaps one of the most amazing things was …

28 July 2008

Internet Channel on Wii

Filed under: connectivity, gadgets - 28 Jul 2008

You might not think your television set is the best place to experience the Internet, but when you don’t have a functioning computer, it’s better than nothing. This is the situation our friends in Alabama are experiencing.

I took a look …

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