Weinberger: Delaminate the Bastards!

July 10 2007

David Weinberger, in a recent essay, suggests that in order to preserve net neutrality we must “delaminate” the telco’s service from their infrastructure. We must fundamentally change the way that telcos do business: “Delaminate the bastards. The only way to get Net Neutrality with teeth is by changing the business models… read more

iPhone Activated. First Impressions.

July 10 2007

After some amount of pain I got my iPhone activated by a kind group of folks at AT&T who were assigned to “fix problems that people on the Internet were having”. A kind man named Thomas helped me through the process of converting my account from corporate to individual, getting… read more

iPhone first impressions: What happened to "It Just Works"?

July 10 2007

A gorgeous phone…That i can’t use. I had hope that Apple’s integration of the usually complicated and obtuse world of mobile phone activation into iTunes would actually make things easier for the user. Unfortunately we have been given a nasty glimpse into the even MORE complicated and obtuse world of the… read more

Apple's iPhone Marketing Machine. Is it enough?

June 25 2007

I’ve been watching with a mix of anticipation and doubt the ongoing reportage of the Apple iPhone launch. Without a doubt it is the most genius marketing campaign I’ve seen of late. Starting with the early announcement of the device and dominating headlines Macworld Expo in January 2007, the machine… read more

N95 Going to the Shop

June 20 2007

The Nokia N95 that I’ve been using for the past couple of months has forgotten how its volume keys work. It makes me super sad to say that even though Nokia made a great telephone, it’s not above certain mechanical difficulties that befall all of our devices from time to… read more

US MVNO "Troubles" are overblown

June 04 2007

The bankruptcy filing by US MVNO Amp’d over the weekend was very high profile, sad and, to many of us who cover the industry, not all that surprising. Amp’d had amassed a reported 200,000 subscribers and burned through hundreds of millions of dollars to build a broad-market MVNO. It hasn’t… read more

EQO launches new mobile version.

May 23 2007

Richmond, BC based EQO (pronounced “echo”) launched a new version of their mobile VOIP, IM and Messaging platform today. It is available for just about any J2ME phone available today, which is an amazing feat for a startup (most usually launch on one platform and slowly expand). My initial impression… read more

Nokia N95 Impressions

May 07 2007

I’ve been using the Nokia N95 phone for the past week and I have to say I’m really impressed. Several folks from the Nokia Blogger Relations Program have been testing it as well and the opinions have been quite varied. Stuart Henschall is in love (with minor caveats), Dameon Welch-Abernathy… read more

Freeswitch on Nokia Internet Tablet

May 02 2007

The folks who write the Open Source Soft Switching application Freeswitch have ported their software to the Nokia N800 Internet Tablet. For those of you lucky enough to have one of these, grab the code and turn your device into one of the most portable VoIP switches around. I’ll try to… read more

Google Mobile Initiatives Continue

May 01 2007

It seems that Google’s mobile initiatives are ramping up quite nicely. According to this article on Telecoms.com, they have begun shipping their software on a new LG device called the KS10. The KS10 is LG’s first handset to run on the S60 platform from Nokia and will feature fully integrated… read more

Nokia N95...Hot Potatoe...Dead Battery

May 01 2007

I received a N95 from our friends at Nokia yesterday. At first glance, it’s a gorgeous device, very similar in stature to the N80 that proceeded it, but a little thinner and a lot lighter. It comes with just about every bell and whistle imaginable and should work the world… read more

Decoupling Identifiers

April 14 2007

I’ve been thinking a lot about how we identify ourselves in virtualspace quite a bit lately. Specifically, where things intersect in interesting ways. Where do those intersections cause conflicts and how can they be resolved using emerging telephony platforms? Take, for instance, the humble telephone number. It is a tried and… read more