Gizmodo has a very interesting piece today about consumer Internet connectivity in the USA from the major providers. In the post they point out how the broadband providers are overselling higher priced services to consumer by exaggerating what kind of pipe someone needs to download, connect or use services. First off, we're beginning to...
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Archive for December, 2009
Are You Buying More Than You Need?
Jajah Goes To Telefonica
The rumor mill was right on, and Jajah has indeed become part of Telefonica.
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RIM Has A Problem
Last night around 7 PM or so I caught a tweet that made me check my Blackberry. Yes indeed, there must be an outage. Then another tweet came in. Then another, and another. All the while RIM was silent. This is not the first time that Research In Motion was off the air and...
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Jingle Bells Ringing for Jajah: How they created $200M of perceived value.
I can clearly remember the first time I tried what Jajah then called its ‘web telephony’ service, back in 2007. Its claim: to take the confusion and early adopter status out of VoIP, by letting people use their computers to place a call, yet still ...
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Silicon Valley Xmas Wish List Report For 2009
The great thing about the Internet is that you can get connected to just about everyone these days. Well this afternoon, my old friend Nick called me via his new SIP connection. It seems the new 100 meg fiber line to his winter abode has finally been connected, giving him even faster access. That...
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