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Chris Kranky
VC’s – what to do?
For the last 10 years, I’ve worked for various VC-funded technology companies. One arose like a Phoenix but crashed leaving the investors with nothing, another an aging company trying to re-start with new money (this went nowhere), finally a decades old “start-up†constantly in need of new money and finding after 10 years, their [...]
Chris Koehncke
Google Voice, anyone?
Google launched their 'Google Voice' offering which is basically a re-launch of the assets they acquired for $50m from GrandCentral. The happy techno blogs and geek websites have had plenty of glowing reviews. I've been playing with it myself for the last few weeks. While I have great fun, I can't quite figure out why [...]
Chris Koehncke
Skype: The hit of the CTIA show
At this hour, Google is reporting there over 344 news articles announcing that "tommorow Skype will announce their software client for Apple's iPhone". Wow! I'll try and be calm. Even better. Skype's says in the coming months they will introduce additional clients for Blackberry and others as well. I can barely [...]
Chris Koehncke
BroadVoice Service or lack thereof
I needed a home office telephone line and since I already had a Linksys IP phone, started looking for a service provider which allowed me to "BYOD" or bring your own device. I quickly selected BroadVoice, they've been around the longest with about 45,000 subscribers and their pricing was half way decent. So I signed [...]
Chris Koehncke
When your Blackberry isn’t your Blackberry
I've used a Research in Motion Blackberry Pearl 8100 from T-Mobile for several years. It's a great mobile, small, slick, stylish, fits in my pocket and I've adapted to it's slightly weird keyboard. T-Mobile easily unlocked the phone for me as well so I could use other SIM card when traveling. All is great. While […]
Chris Koehncke
FMC – fixed mobile convergence, just drop the “F”
Wireless voice wins, game over. Working in the VoIP application space, the company's CTO was always calling me from down the hallway on my mobile phone despite me having a nice Polycom desktop set. I asked one day, "Why don't you call me on my desk phone?". His reply – "I don't have the number […]
Chris Koehncke