Opinion

• You Should Come to eComm

  There are not many things more annoying about working in the communications space than the constant email invitations to big conferences that offer too little for too much. With few exceptions, I don’t go to them. One conference I do plan to attend is Emerging Communications America 2010, or as communications insiders call Lee Dryburgh‘s [...]

• Mr. Jobs, Tear Down This wall

  If Apple wanted to stand the world on its ear next Wednesday at the It’s Only Rock and Roll But We Like It event in San Francisco, the company would announce it is opening iPhone software development to all comers and is dropping the facade of exclusive distribution through the iTunes App Store. Heresy, you [...]

• AT&T and Apple: Cutting Ties That Overbind

  After months of criticism from various consumer groups, it has been speculated that telecom giant AT&T is closer to allowing the use of VoIP applications over its 3G data network on mobile devices such as Apple’s iPhone. 3G access has been an issue over the past few months due to the fact that iPhone voice [...]

• Skype Only Winner as Apple Jilts Google

  While many pundits in the telephony space were busy pointing fingers and naming villains in the wake of Apple’s rejection of Google’s iPhone app for Google Voice, the real winner in the current scenario, Skype, continued to rack up millions of minutes that could have been destined for Google and, strangely enough, AT&T. Skype is [...]