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A friend of mine and the voice community at large Carl Ford, along with Scott Kargman are launching something very special with Rich Teharani of TMC.  Drum roll please……. let us welcome the 4G Wireless Evolution Website and conference in Miami next February.  The websites are supposed to launch today and I’m sure there will [...]

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I was a guest on the T4 Show with Michael Manna on Friday.  He is a fun host for in interesting podcast.  If you want to  listen it’s episode 93 and here’s the url http://t4show.com.  Thanks for having me Michael.

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Last Thursday I had a meeting that got pushed back an hour so I thought who’s close by, well Ken Rutkowski only lives a few blocks away so I thought I’d text him.  He calls me right back after he gets my text and says, “Aren’t you coming to San Diego for GadgetFest today?”.  That’s [...]

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So I’m shopping for a UMPC or Ultra Mobile Personal Computer, it’s a really small and light laptop and I have all kinds of questions.
What are the brands I should be looking at? What do I want out of it? What features must be present? And what are my minimum hardware requirements.
Well my options are [...]

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I was recently asked to write a review of the new Dell Video Chat software created by SightSpeed.  Dell Video Chat is loaded onto all new Dell computers.  I am going to break it into two parts, my initial thoughts on it and I will write a more in depth review after I have had [...]

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My good friend Idan Gafni pinged me earlier today to let me know some good news.  His firm Ugunduzi was one of the key factor in launching Israels first IVVR based portal and its biggest private portal on channel 10s’ internet department called nana10.
Here is a quote from the article I read at TalkingMobile
IVVR (Interactive [...]

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So I did not use the Nokia E71 for over 24 hours and the battery lasted.  Here are the details.  Wednesday was a short day for me but I still managed to kill the E71 battery before 2pm and then charged it back up 3/4 of the way before I unplugged everything at about 4pm.  [...]

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Wow, it’ been a while that I’ve been using GrandCentral (one number to rule them all, by forwarding your calls to upto 5 US #rs at once) and I have always been quite happy with their service.  In the last few months though I have been getting perturbed that they don’t forward SMS/text messages to [...]

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I was interviewed yesterday by Jim Finkle from Reuters.  We talked about Mobile VOIP for a while and I was introduced to a new company called DeFi and I told Jim all about Truphone (one of my favorite services).  There’s an error in the pricing that I have already requested they correct.
I’m excited to be [...]

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I had never heard of DeFi until today and now I’m using their service and REALLY liking it.  DeFi is geared to international callers and heavy talkers.  They offer unlimited mobile VOIP or mVOIP calls to anywhere in the world (on Nokia S60 phones) as long as you’re on wifi for $40/month.  I call that [...]

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