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Mitel Launches Traveling Solution Showcase
Mitel has announced the launch of its “Simply Communicating” Tour, a four-month venture that will bring Mitel’s advanced business communications solutions to its customers and partners across the United States.Through the road show, Mitel will visit more than 600 new and existing customers and provide on-premise access to Mitel’s latest …(155 words) ... »
Best BackPack For 17″ Laptops: Booq Mamba Shift L
After getting my new 17″ MacBook Pro, a big problem arised: my backpack was not 17″-ready, but up to 13″ only. Since that MacBook is a precious and delicate thing, I started my research for a new backpack. After some Googling, I came accross a few reviews of the Booq Mamba Shift L, a backpack... »
Update on GoGO
Joe Sharkey has an update on the state of in flight WiFi in today’s New York Times. As a road warrior I choose my flights and hotels based on the broadband options available. Over the past month my trips to Northern California were 90 percent on Virgin America and only ten percent on Southwest. As... »
Mathew Ingram Joins GigaOM
There are some stories that write themselves. This is one of them. About four years ago, I traveled to Toronto to attend the inaugural mesh web conference. There I learned two things: Paul Kedrosky is as funny in person as he on his blog. And Mathew Ingram is one sharp cookie. I was introduced to... »
AT&T Named “Best Wireless Service in the World” by Global Traveler
AT&T announced today that it has been recognized as having the “Best Wireless Service in the World” by the readers of Global Traveler magazine. The annual survey, now in its sixth year, gives Global Traveler readers the chance to voice their opinions on “the best” in many categories of business and luxury travel. Related Topics:... »
AT&T Launches Wi-Fi Service at Tulsa Airport
Travelers who will be making their way through the Tulsa International Airport will now have the added convenience of having access to AT&T’s wireless Internet service at their fingertips. AT&T— an industry leader in Wi-Fi with the nation’s largest Wi-Fi network — and the Tulsa International Airport today announced that AT&T Wi-Fi is available... »
Google Nexus One Review
The Nexus One. In the modern climate of hyped (and over-hyped) smartphone launches, Google’s official entry into the phone-sales game has excelled in a department where many find difficulty: generating legitimate excitement. Of course, long before the name Nexus One or the recent bounty of pictures and details existed, the very concept of a... »
Kindle DX Goes Global
Amazon today announced that it will start selling a global wireless version of Kindle DX (the 9.7 inch display version) in more than 100 countries for about $489 a pop on January 19. Just like the Kindle global edition, Amazon is using GSM technologies – GPRS, EDGE & 3G – to power its global... »
U.S. Telecom Firm Pays $3 Million in Fines Over China Business
UTStarcom, an American telecommunications company, has agreed to pay $3 million in fines after U.S. officials accused it of a long-running plan to bribe Chinese and other foreign officials with cash, travel junkets and other gifts. The U.S. Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission said Thursday that UTStarcom paid nearly $7 million... »
PM Adoption of Modern ICT Applications to Improve Efficiency of Public Sector Organizations
Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani Saturday called on Saturday for promoting Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) education and adopting modern ICT techniques to improve governance and efficiency of public sector organizations.E-government, he said, would not only improve efficiency but also cut down costs and contribute the austerity measures. He... »
Yahoo! Pays Some Travelers’ Baggage Fees
Yahoo! Inc.’s (YHOO) new, $100 million ad campaign has pretty much been panned. But the Internet company did something nothing short of brilliant last week that should get its name out better and faster than the “It’s Y!ou” marketing – it paid airline customers’ baggage fees.Well, in the San Francisco …(252 words) ... »
Yahoo! Pays Some Travelers’ Baggage Fees
Yahoo! Inc.’s (YHOO) new, $100 million ad campaign has pretty much been panned. But the Internet company did something nothing short of brilliant last week that should get its name out better and faster than the “It’s Y!ou” marketing – it paid airline customers’ baggage fees.Well, in the San Francisco …(252 words) Related Topics: Cisco,... »
Poll: Will New Travel Restrictions Impact Your Plans?
View This Pollsurvey In the aftermath of the terrorism attempt on an international flight on Friday, there are new restrictions on airline travel, reports The New York Times. While these restrictions are pretty vague, various airlines are taking steps that include limiting passengers to only one carry-on item, asking them to remain in their seats... »
Poll: Will New Travel Restrictions Impact Your Plans
View This Pollsurvey In the aftermath of the terrorism attempt on an international flight on Friday, there are new restrictions on airline travel, reports The New York Times. While these restrictions are pretty vague, various airlines are taking steps that include restricting passengers to only one carry-on item, asking them to remain in their seats... »
Apple’s Future Is Very Secure
Apple stock hit an all time high, over $200 this week. But that's just the financial story. What is really impressive is how well Apple is faring in purchase popularity in every category they compete it. In phones. In the desktop and laptop categories, when you consider how much more expensive their products are vs. the... »
Farewell to an Interesting Decade for Telecom; Now It’s Onward and Upward in 2010
Well, as Santa packs his sleigh, one thing is painfully clear: I have been a bad blogger and will only be receiving lumps of coal this year. My New Year’s resolution is to post and Tweet more frequently in 2010. It promises to be an interesting, if challenging, new decade, and I look forward... »
November 2009: State of Location Apps
I have long been fascinated by location-based applications, especially on the new mobile platforms, for they represent a different (and a new) way of consuming and interaction with information. So perhaps that’s why I found this new report jointly produced by location-based services company Skyhook Wireless and Distimo, an app analytics company, mildly interesting. Here... »
BT Offers Video Conferencing Savings Tracking Tool
BT Conferencing has announced the availability of Engage Tracker, a travel and carbon savings tool that helps companies document monetary savings resulting from the use of video conferencing. With real-time reporting capabilities, the tool is able to calculate employee travel costs avoided through the use of video conferencing, as well …(172 words) ... »
All Hail the iPod touch
As the competition for smartphone domination starts to heat up, it is becoming increasingly clear that the iPod touch is Apple’s ace up its sleeve, and according to a report by Flurry, a San Francisco-based mobile analytics company, 24 million iPod touches represent about 40 percent of the total 58 million iPhone OS devices. From... »
Being Quoted More and More
As many of you know, I end up being quoted quite a bit about VOIP, leading the life of a tech savvy road warrior and even sometimes about business travel in general. What you may not know is that I also get cited regularly on business and marketing related matters, and usually they are... »
LTE and Voice Calling
Wireless Moves has a very good summary of just how many voice calls can travel over LTE compared to GSM, UMTS and HSPA. The key though in reading the post is in the summary: The numbers are stunning and offer interesting opportunities in the future. According to these numbers LTE is 10 times more efficient to... »
Google Maps Navigation Comes to Older Android Phones
Google today launched its popular Google Maps Navigation (beta) for older devices that use Android OS version 1.6 or higher. It debuted as a free feature on Android 2.0 (Droid) handsets a few weeks ago and was received with much enthusiasm. Now devices such as the T-Mobile myTouch 3G and the G1 will be... »
TripIt Launches Android App as Beta
TripIt, a travel aggregation service that is offered as an application on the iPhone and BlackBerry, is now available as a beta app for Google’s Android platform and can be downloaded from the Android Market. Just like us, our colleagues at jkOnTheRun, WebWorkerDaily and TheAppleBlog are all fans of TripIt, and the Android... »
The Importance of Proper Audio Accessories in VoIP
Pal Alec Saunders has written a very complete review of the Yamaha Sound Gadget which is available on the Skype Store for $199.00 here in the USA and is available around the globe. The reason I bring this up, is that now more than ever, the expression of GIGO-Garbage In, Garbage Out, could never be... »
iLive ISP209B Portable Speaker System Review – Alarm Clock for iPhone and iPod
The iLive ISP209B is not your typical alarm clock – it’s a portable iPod and iPhone docking station with built in speakers and dual alarm function that you can stuff in your travel bag and be sure to be woken up with your favorite tunes. Not only does it playback your iPhone/iPod... »
Britain’s Ofcom investigates potential for new wireless communications technology
Ofcom today published a discussion document to explore the potential of a new technology that could wirelessly link up different devices and offer enhanced broadband access in rural areas. The technology works by searching for unoccupied radio waves called “white spaces” between TV channels to transmit and receive wireless signals. Compared with other... »
There’s WiFi In the Air
My all time favorite Travel Critic of All Time, the venerable Joe Brancatelli, who pulls no punches, and always calls them like he see’s them, has a two page story in Portfolio Magazine about WiFi in the Sky. In the story, Joe basically says that the flying public is cheap, and to his credit, he’s... »
Get A Real Life. Use Twitter and Facebook!
If someone tells you why don’t you get a real life since you use Twitter and Facebook too much, tell them you are actually doing that! Despite Twitter and Facebook are much different and with different targets (in terms of users), they are both all about real life and real relationships, no doubts about... »
With Video Conferencing Deals, Polycom in Sharp Focus
First Cisco Systems decided to buy Norwegian video conferencing equipment maker Tandberg for about $3 billion. This week, Logitech, a Swiss computer peripherals maker, acquired LifeSize, an Austin, Texas-based private company, for about $405 million in cash. The two deals have brought the fast-growing but often-overlooked video conferencing market into sharp focus. And that... »
Executive Perk of the Day, Vonage Edition
Felix Salmon submits: Michelle Leder finds one of the weirdest executive perks yet in the employment contract for Vonage CEO Mark Lefar: The Company shall also promptly pay, or reimburse the Executive for, the costs of his private air travel from and to the Company’s principal offices in Holmdel, New Jersey (subject to the submission... »