Posts Tagged with ‘America’

We here at Profy first profiled Gather.com - a social networking site geared to provide a meeting place of sorts (hence the title) for above-average intellectual discussion (as opposed to the mostly idiocratic MySpace and so forth) - in November of 2006. The following February we delved in a bit deeper, spotlighting the site’s establishment of Essentials, a selection of channels comprised of expert sources of information for books, music, health, money, and so on.
And in September, we [...]

Last week, Sprint and Clearwire, two companies in the US that have, amid widespread skepticism, managed for a long while to remain steadfast and continue their drive for widespread deployment of WiMAX services in America, declared their separation.
According to a Reuters report on the matter, Sprint “ended its WiMAX partnership with Clearwire and was reviewing its plans for the next-generation wireless technology.”
Why do we bring this bit of news to your attention? Well, we do so because [...]

Ever heard of FON? It?s a WiFi network, built, wonderfully enough, by individual consumers and small businesses in Europe and many other parts of the world.
It works on a tiered system of paid and free access. If people opt in to become a ?Fonero? and set up a FON account and hotspot of their own, they can get free access from any other FON hotspot in the world. If one doesn?t complete all aforementioned introductory steps, one can still [...]

As reported by the AP today, Vonage continues to lose cash (though less so in Q2 2007 than in periods prior) and has reported a steep drop in subscriber recruitment, and has for the first time lost its place as the largest provider of VoIP service to the American consumer market to Comcast, a cable television and Internet service provider.
Uh oh.
As unfortunate as it is to say, considering Vonage’s place as a “pioneer” in consumer- and small-business-oriented VoIP market [...]

End Of Service Announcement: Free SkypeOut calls to US and Canadian phones ends December 31, 2006.
Well, it was nice while it lasted. Skype, the world leader in online telephony is about to close the door on their VERY popular promotion - Free SkypeOut calls in North America. So, if you’ve been putting off making those holiday greeting calls or best of the New Year calls to friends, family and colleagues, you better start budgeting your time over the [...]