I had a briefing yesterday with Rich Koch, the CEO of RNK Communications, a New England-based CLEC. They’ve got a nice business going, and this week announced a pretty interesting service. It’s called Phone Number Bank - not the most exciting name, but something I think will have a lot of appeal, and I don’t […]

When you’re too busy to post, the next best thing is to post other people’s stuff! Well, that’s my story today, but if you follow the Nokia NSeries phones, you’ll like this one.
Followers of my blog know about my oldest son, Max. He’s doing reviews regularly, and we recently did a videocast review of the […]

My guest this week was Brian Mahony, VP of Marketing at Ottawa-based Espial Group. Espial is one of the leading indie IPTV middleware vendors, and are very much connnected to the market and technology issues around IPTV. Brian provided a great perspective on the IPTV market and some of the better-known deployments.
Espial also just had […]

If anybody knows about innovation and disruption in the VoIP space, it’s the man who hosts my blog, Jeff Pulver. A nice confluence of events led a post from Jeff today, which is basically an offer to possibly make some of his personal seed capital available to someone who can show him something truly different […]

Yesterday, Ooma had its official launch, and at face value, is being touted as a game-changer. I’ll steer you to blog posts that explain the details, but basically this is a device-based solution to give consumers a better VoIP experience, and an alternative to the fledgling pureplays like Vonage and 8×8. I’d include SunRocket in […]

On this edition of Teen Tech Reviews, Max shares his impressions of the Nokia N93 phone.
If you’re based in Canada, you can watch the review directly from the BlogTV.ca site here.
If you’re outside Canada you probably won’t be able to access this link, but the embedded link below should work just fine. Hope you like […]

On this week’s podcast, I spoke with Iain Klugman, CEO of Communitech. This is an interesting entity that serves as a hub for supporting Waterloo-based tech startups. Iain has a deep perspective about what makes Waterloo such a great spot for tech companies, and explained more about the role Communitech plays, as well as how […]

I’m not a SunRocket watcher, but it’s not hard to see the stories about their imminent demise, and recent flight of their executive ranks.
This is a classic reality check sign, as the dominoes start to fall with TDM-style offerings that simply run out of gas. No need to get into the details, as it’s plain […]

This week’s podcast focused on emergency communications and the role that Web-based solutions can play for first line responders. My guest was Rod Piukkala, Director for Telus Business Solutions, Ontario Public Sector.
Rod has an extensive history in public service, and knows what emergency communications are all about, both from the front lines as well as […]

We’re finally back on track with our video reviews on BlogTV.ca. We’ve had a 2 week hiatus - Max had exams, and then we got a new web cam. This cam is MUCH better, but it took a few days to get things working properly - we’ll be doing a separate review on this, actually.
So […]