Thursday, October 09, 2008

Update Mobile VoIP Apps Comparison/Contrast Anyone?

True, this comparison of Gizmo, Truphone, Talkster, and Jajah is over a year old... still quite interesting. Anyone see anymore comparisons of mobile apps (voip)? I'd like to see Fring, MobileMax, eqo, Groovytel (kind of a free self-serve voice in on mobile voip apps), Yeigo, Nimbuzz, and some of the others added since 2007. Customer service, ease of installation if applicable, ease of use, flexibility, and features like voice in, voice out, IM, etc.

I just listened for the second time to interviews with Boaz Z. of Fring, James T. of Truphone, and Tam of eqo and as a result asked Martyn Davies, when are you guys going to conduct more Bending the Needle interviews????

Tuesday, October 07, 2008

Hobsin & Holtz Report and Voip Users Podcasts

Wow, I like these...
** http://www.forimmediaterelease.biz/, the Hobsin & Holtz Report
** http://www.voipuser.org/btn/ podcasts of James Tagg of Truphone, Dan York, Pat Phelan of Roam4Free, Jeff Pulver, Bill Tam of eqo, Boaz Zilberman of Fring, and Alec Saunders of Iotum.

My Ipod is full now alongside John Mayer*, Louis Armstrong, Sarah Bareilles, Geekspeak, etc.

* His blog is at http://johnmayer.com/blog.

Monday, October 06, 2008

I hope...

Some of the things I read, I hope I am never guilty of doing the same.

I hope that I read everything that matters carefully.

I hope that I will do my best to treat colleagues, customers, suppliers, partners, and friends with the respect that I want in return.

I hope that I will NEVER let my personal life interfere with my professional life and that I do not allow negative emotion to rule any of my responses to anyone.

If you are in charge of anything, remember... too many rules and excuses and fabricatioins really um... help, my Dad is a preacher, ok, they suck.

I hope. Time to sleep.

Mobile Applications Development Workshops: Netbiscuits, Android

Pre-Conference events on Tuesday, October 21 at Mobile Internet World 2008 in Boston, Massachusetts listed below, and don't forget to sign up this week by Oct 10, 2008 Friday to get the extra $100 off:

New England Mobile Summit
Mobile Ecosystem has developed a special program to showcase some of New England’s next generation wireless companies, and bring together the leaders of our “mobile ecosystem” with more than 2,000 individuals attending Mobile Internet World in a provocative discussion of how New England can remain one of the world’s great centers of wireless innovation.
Runs 1:30am to 5:30pm
More info: http://www.mobilenetx.com/?p=944G

Executive Summit
The 4G Executive Summit 2008 leverages the extensive research conducted by Yankee Group and will provide you with an unique insight into the market potential for 4G broadband services based on 3GSM/LTE, Wi-Fi and WiMAX technologies.
Runs 9:00am to 5:30pm
More info: http://www.mobilenetx.com/?p=618

Mobile Applications and Developers Summit
Sponsored by Netbiscuits
As mobile devices and platforms proliferate, the mobile web will become a dominant means of reaching the internet. Few enterprises have yet embarked on building out mobile internet based web applications, and fewer still have figured out their mobile internet website strategy.
Runs 9:00am to 5:30pm
More info: http://www.mobilenetx.com/?p=21

Android Developers Workshop
Join Google’s own Justin Mattson, to understand Google’s strategy for its Android platform and how to build Android applications. The workshop opens with an introduction to the platform and includes two increasingly technical sessions on Android Development. The day closes with a fireside chat with the Android team.
Runs 1:30am to 5:30pm
More info: http://www.mobilenetx.com/?p=988

See more IP communications related global events sponsored by DIDXchange at our Events site as well as our DID/DDI Channel on TMC.