Apple has conquered the wireless world with the iPhone and iPad. Now they want to do to the cable industry what they have done to the wireless carriers. Forced them to get bigger pipes to deliver more big file content, more quickly. The announcement yesterday about streaming video is a dream come true for those of us in the streaming media world. And it’s well timed. Add to it that more and more Apple devices can now handle this type of content more easily, all the way from laptops down to iPods, iPads and iPhones, and you have a perfect…

There’s a revolution going on in voice communications, and it’s all about HD Voice. Today, in the UK, Orange (press release), one of the largest mobile operators in the world unveiled their new HD Voice service that works on a small number of handsets from Nokia and Samsung that move the voice traffic over the 3G path. Those are also the first two hurdles as the HD Voice service stops working when the 3G service stops and only works on mobile phones that have the HD Voice codecs installed. The next hurdle deals with when you call someone on another…

Google is going after consumers with last week’s news about Google Talk being able to make calls now, and binding to GoogleVoice accounts as well. Well Skype isn’t sitting still, so while Google chases the no money crowd, Skype is following Willie Sutton’s line when asked why he robbed banks. “Because that’s where the money is” as the telecom disruptor goes upmarket and upstream into the Business and Enterprise realms with the renaming of Skype for SIP to Skype Connect. According to today’s announcement Skype Connect already has over 2,400 active global customers and is now certified to work with…

So this morning I took some time to play around with Google Talk/Mail/Voice and sadly, its not all Central. I’ll give it the credit it deserves. It does a lot but one thing it doesn’t do is SYNC between the mailbox and the voice mailbox. Well, in reality, neither does Google Voice. Here’s why. A voice mail message now sits in three places. 1. Your Google Mail box. It is sent to you as an email, with transcription. 2. Your Google Voice inbox. It resides there forever. 3. Your Google Voice call in In box. It resides there until you…

Google Mail now has calling. For years Google had click to call tied to phone numbers on Google Maps. They’ve had Google Voice and picked up Gizmo. The media world has lit up over the fact that now from inside GMAIL you can make a phone call by clicking a button and up pops a dialing window. You can call away for free or for what Google feels are very low prices. The installation is rather simple. And calls connect quickly. The sound quality is very good, likely based on the GIPS codecs. But the real sleeping giant inside the…

Yesterday, I was supposed to fly back to San Diego and my wife to Sacramento. We each had flights booked four hours apart. She on United and your’s truly on AirTran as I wanted WiFi. The weather in Boston was dreary. Fog. Rain. Plus President Obama in the area down in Martha’s Vineyard meant that flights were a tad all running late. Add to it that VP Joe Biden was in Milwaukee, the Air Tran hub I was connecting through, while my wife was connecting through D.C and these massive flight delays started to mount. About ninety minutes before her…

Yesterday I saw three news stories that all seemed to bring one thought to mind. Mobile PBX. First was the story about a startup in the UK called CloudNet which trickled into the mailbox over the weekend. Cloudnet is offering a 14 day trial (with the purchase of the mobile app) of a mobile PBX play with an app for iPhones and iPads that ties into a backend PBX. Next was Om’s post about Mobile VoIP coming to the RIM Blackberry. There’s only one catch, the TringMe service only works on pre BB 5.0 devices. That’s fine, but I already…

One of the major highlights last February at IT Expo in Miami Beach was “StartUp Camp” organized by pal Larry Lisser. The event focuses not on the big guys with lots of money, but on the newest ideas from the newest companies just entering the marketplace. Organized in the same vein as GigaOm’s Launchpad, TechCrunch Disrupt or DEMO, each company gets their five minutes up on stage to showoff what they’ve got that’s new, how it works and why the world needs to know all about it. This year’s event, on Monday October 4 is set to be as exciting…

iDapt Multi Device Power Base With the iDapt I can charge three device. For me that’s an iPhone 4, a Nokia E-71 and either a Blackberry Bold 9700, Motorola Droid or a MiFi. Monster Six Outlet Outlets To Go Power Strip The Monster Outlets To Go power strip means even when I’m in a hotel I can have all the outlets I need to plug in and use my Mac Book Pr, iPad, iDapt and more. FreeTalk Everyman Headset With the FreeTalk Everyman headset, all my Skype calls sound great because its a Super Wide Band HD headset and microphone.

Cross Posted At Voyces.com In reading the Mashable story about how Starbucks is going to create their own digital network of content as their way of justifying “free Wi-Fi” I had to admit I was intrigued. Over the past few years Starbucks has done pretty much all they could do to alienate the long stayer. They have cranked up the volume, turned up the Air Conditioning, reduced the number of “comfortable” chairs in many locations and worst of all, brought in AT&T to replace T-Mobile, and with that, dropped the capacity and speeds of connectivity from business grade service to…