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WebRTC
WebRTC is an API definition being drafted by the World Wide Web Consortium to enable browser-to-browser applications for voice calling, video chat, and P2P file sharing without plugins.
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
Innovation – a how to guide?
Kranky is back. Sorry if you missed me, probably didn't though. No matter, I've got lots to report on. I've been spending time with wireline and wireless operators talking about voice service and it's surprising they don't see a trend happening. I remember well wireline operators looking down their noises at [...]
Chris Koehncke
Marketing – sometimes you can’t stand alone
A few weeks ago, I posted about my favorite software utility, Roboform, which manages my daily nightmare of remembering all my various passwords and filling out online forms. A fantastic program $29.95 program and a big Kranky recommendation, you can download a free trial. I was upgrading the software for Roboform and up pops a […]
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A new business card?
Coming back from a conference where the hosting firm elected to use a new electronic badge from nTAG Interactive. This electronic badge had a couple of purposes but the biggest is to enable the easy exchange of an electronic business card with the other participants of the conference. The nTAG is basically a rectangle (3" […]
Chris Koehncke
Speeds n’ feeds
Everyone all excited about PaeTec’s acquisition of McLeodUSA. Not as much news about the looming issue that every CLEC is facing, access to the last mile. The CLEC’s argued, over 10 years ago, that they needed low cost rights to rent copper pairs to a customer premise while they built their own infrastructure. Well, 10 [...]
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