Posts Tagged with ‘wifi’

MySpace surely is not very aesthetically pleasing. It?s downright abysmal, to be honest. But it?s home to tends of millions of social networkers and for some reason or another, they?re okay with how things are. I can?t quite grasp the indifference among the loyalists about the site?s theme, but perhaps some things simply aren?t meant to be understood. They just are the way they are.
One thing I assume must be the case, though, is that some of the folks [...]

FON made news recently with its jab at Starbucks’ WiFi biz. The Spanish success (it boasts the largest number of hotspots in the world) offered a free wireless router to anyone within the immediate vicinity of one of thousands of Howard Schultz’s establishments that had broadband Internet access. Such a move by anyone, in the US at least, would be a clear transgression against agreements made between consumer and ISP, but nevermind that. FON’s going full steam ahead, and it [...]

Vonage, the leading VoIP-only telecommunications provider in the US, hasn’t looked well since the investor-led mutiny following the company’s disastrous IPO days. Headlines ran rampantly across the business sections of newspapers, news magazines, tech publications, and telecom industry papers about Vonage’s unwillingness to let shareholders go, even while a class action lawsuit loomed over its head claiming the dissemination of misleading information prior to the opening bell.
The latest information to be released from the company boardroom shows an attempt [...]

The brainchild of a Swede and a Dane, Skype, the extraordinarily prolific and successful VOIP program that connects people all over the world via voice and video chat, is moving over to a more universally acceptable more easily consumable business model. The plan? Turning ‘Pro’.
The idea of Skype Pro is to offer a bundle of convenience: a discount on a SkypeIn number (a standard telephone number for anyone – Skype users or mobile and landline subscribers – to recognize and contact), [...]