Entries Tagged as 'telephony'
AT&T, not the most consumer friendly..
Now that I’m an AT&T customer I pay more attention to what they’re up to in the news (as well as with the telcos in general, if you hadn’t guessed). It turns out they’re up to no good. Last week Sean sent this article in to me about how AT&T is hobbling the new BlackBerry [...]
Categories: telephony
Telcos on the move
So, you know I hate my cable company, Time Warner. Hate isn’t the word, loathe perhaps and maybe just a little fear. So I’m looking for ways to rationalize why it makes any sense to switch to the telcos which are, for all intents and purposes, just as bad only I haven’t had as horrendous [...]
Categories: telephony
Internet service: Cable v. Telcos
A couple interesting tidbits came across my rss reader today. First this bit on ars technica that tells how cable companies are going to run into a bandwidth crunch very soon now. What with all the HD, video on demand and high bandwidth internet use, they’re going to need to do some infrastructure work to [...]
Categories: smartphones · telephony
My basic thoughts on EVDO and my 595U
If you are an avid reader of this blog you will already know the pain inflicted on me by Time Warner and their horrendous customer service. I won’t bore you with the details - suffice it to say that because Time Warner is so awful I needed a backup internet solution to take care of [...]
AT&T performance
There’s been a lot of talk swirling around the great internet basin and it’s about how EDGE speeds on AT&T’s network may now be juiced up to something much more useable. Here’s the latest one I’ve run across.
Let me backtrack and present my theory (totally unsubstantiated) about the wireless networks. I’ve been bouncing around the [...]
Categories: telephony
ZenZui. Eh.
So the world is a twitter with ZenZui, Microsoft’s spinoff company with a new phone interface for surfing the web. Check out any of those links and watch the video of it in action, then come back. I’ll wait… I don’t really understand the fuss about this, it’s pretty and cool for sure, but it’s [...]
Review: Spinvox
I’ve only spent a little quality time with Spinvox but the product is straight forward enough that I feel ok reviewing it. The short answer is, this is my holy grail of voicemail. It is a great, great product - if you have the ability to get email on your phone it is incredibly worth [...]
Breakfast Links: Sidewalk bell, Microsoft and Spinvox
First off, I totally had this idea a long time ago, except for in my brain this wasn’t a bicycle bell it was a car horn. But I guess if you’re in Japan a bell works just fine. I love how everyone just moves aside, even the ones who notice that he’s not actually on [...]
Review: Vonage
I’ve been using Vonage for awhile now, over 2 years in fact, and I’ve had my ups and downs. Recently and periodically it gives me fits of frustrations that really bother me. I’m not a landline power user, I don’t make a ton of calls - the main reason I got Vonage was because of [...]
