What if you paid billions of dollars for a company, only to find out that you didn’t own the license for the product?  That’s just what Skype has learned, and as they warned in a recent SEC filing, it could result in the shutdown of Skype services. How does one pay a kings ransom for a [...]

Just as we were about to post a story on the renewed browser wars, news broke that Google is going after not only Microsoft’s share of the browser market but the Operating System market as well!   A few quick changes, some phone calls and research and we are back on track with thoughts on this [...]

Telecom Monthly July Newsletter Welcome to what is shaping up to be a wacky Summer. iPhone and Pre are positioning themselves as the ultimate smart phone and Android would just like to be mentioned at all. But who has the most at stake: Apple? Sprint? Palm? AT&T? It leaked out that Steve Jobs had a [...]

Apple CEO Steve Jobs is back at work after a 6 month medical leave of absence.  During that time, he apparently had a liver transplant.  There has been a great deal of speculation that Job, who has been treated for pancreatic cancer, may have suffered some form of relapse with the cancer spreading to his [...]

Don’t underestimate the power of young people to shape our future communications.  A few years ago, who would have imagined that texts and tweets would become more popular than phone calls for a huge segment of the population?  Nor would we have guessed that Facebook would infringe on the space previously held by email – which [...]

If you are as big an iPhone geek as I am, you woke up early this morning to see if the new 3.0 software update was ready to be downloaded.  It wasn’t, but became available for download around 10 am pacific time.  Early reaction to the new software is glowing.  The phone seems much more [...]

There is only so much doom and gloom a guy can take, thank god it’s Summer and there are enough diversions to keep our minds off the economy. Actually, signs are finally pointing to a bottoming out of the depression and that signals better times ahead . . . we hope! The question is, how long can some of the Telecom Industry’s most vulnerable companies hold out? The vuntures are waiting to pick the carcass clean, that you can be sure of. While April was filled with drama, May was all about price cuts, innovation, and sexspionage. Carriers are lowering prices and improving offerings, the FCC is tightening rules, and customers are just trying to find a way to pay the bills.

For years, the IT EXPO has been the essential trade show for cutting edge IP telecommunications, and is the longest running trade show in its category.  It is the show where many important partnerships are struck and where you go to find solutions to modern telephony problems.  However, until now, it hasn’t been a great [...]

An inventive new web search service has just become available to the public which just might give Google search a run for the money some day.  WolframAlpha is a sort of automated mashup of Yahoo Answers and Google Search.  Type in your question and Wolfram returns a detailed answer instead of a list of web sites [...]

Thanks in part to consumers looking to lower expenses in the current recession, cellphone only households have surpassed landline only households for the first time ever.  The report conducted by the Centers for Disease Control surveyed 12,597 households on their available means of communication in the second half of 2008. The shift toward mobile only [...]