The once powerful Motorola is in a head first plunge toward the icy waters of  irrelevance since it’s leap from the peak of the cellular handset world.  As a result, Moto is preparing to separate its handset losses from the rest of the company with a planned spin-off of its wireless phone division.  However, results [...]

What happens when a little free word of mouth gets out of hand . . . let’s look at Twitter to find out.   Like the rest of the world, I’ve been hooked by the simplicity of Twitter.com, the newest social networking phenom.  But lately, I’ve had the sneaking suspicion that Twitter was having a hard time keeping [...]

AT&T has announced the impending death of CallVantage, their Vonage-esque consumer Internet phone service.  Verizon also plans to shut down their Internet phone service dubbed “VoiceWing.” For a while, it seemed as though it was only a matter of time until VoIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol) would take over the universe and put the long [...]

Telecommunications carriers make their move against the telemarketing industry’s auto-dialers. You may have noticed that you aren’t receiving as many unwanted calls during the dinner hour lately.  It has nothing to do with a sudden sense of morality by telemarketers or even the National Do Not Call List.  This time around, it is a simple matter of [...]

Yahoo just released 1st quarter earnings and they were tepid at best.  Yahoo generated revenue of $1.58 billion, 13 percent lower than the same period last year.  The company reported  net profit in the first quarter of $118 million,just shy of expectations.  In another bit of dark news, Yahoo is preparing to enter into a third dramatic round [...]

Nortel issued a press releaseearlier this month touting the addition of “Regional Carriers” to its CS 1500 solution.  In normal times, the promotion of minor carriers would seem out of place, but as Nortel prepares to enter the dark cold void of bankruptcy, this news seemed like a valiant attempt to prove that business carries on [...]

Ebay is preparing to cut the umbilical cord and let Skype operate on its own.  An initial public offering for Skype could be held as soon as early 2010. The purchase of Skype by Ebay was widely seen as a bad move on the part of former Ebay CEO, Meg Whitman.  The two companies were [...]

April showers bring cloud manifestos; at least they do this year as industry players attempt to work out a framework for an open cloud computing network. But “manifesto” is such a loaded word; couldn’t we just have light fluffy clouds without all the revolutionary rhetoric? Perhaps the soon to be new FCC Chairman, Julius Genachowski will [...]

Something really interesting came out of the Web 2.0 Expo last week – easy conversion of JavaScript to iPhone app.   Development of iPhone apps has been slow and difficult for many companies due to the complicated framework and a lack of Objective-C developers.  That will likely change with the release of the open source [...]