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Chris Kranky
TalkPlus is solving big problems for me
Bit of buzz of late regarding TalkPlus. A firm which recently raised $5.5m in funding, purporting to offer Voice 2.0 applications. The basic service installs a small applet on your mobile phone and assigns you a virtual number. You give out the virtual number which first rings Talkplus, who based upon your profile, then may […]
Chris KoehnckeTV from China and no language problem
In a previous posting, I spoke of my hope for a rejuvenated Tivo based upon just on time delivery of virtually any programming that I, as the end consumer, desired using a normal, but speedy Internet connection. This would clearly tick off the broadband provider who believe it their job (and a monopoly) to tell […]
Chris KoehnckeT-Mobile Hotspot — not at my home
T-Mobile earlier this week announced their Hotspot for home service. Basically the service consists of a dual mode (GSM/Wi-Fi) phone that allows you to make “free†telephone calls (not dipping into your minute bucket) when the phone is connected to a Wi-Fi access point. T-Mobile supplies you with a D-Link wireless router for your [...]
Chris KoehnckeA message that nobody hears?
It must be “stupid phone trick†month, because they just seem to keep coming. I’ve been playing with a free service called yackpack. It’s an audible social networking type of service. Basically, you create a topic, record your thoughts on the topic and then email your friends to log-on to listen. Using a viral marketing […]
Chris KoehnckeTivo — Are we forgetting something?
I don’t watch any ESPN channels, but yet, I’m sure, Comcast has baked the exhorbatant sports channel costs into my ever increasing monthly subscription fee. Truth be known, I don’t watch "channels" anymore at all. I have Tivo. I watch programs that I want to watch, when I want to watch them and frankly, [...]
Chris KoehnckeTwo drinks into me, a table of colleagues burst out laughing when I lamented that the motto for VoIP should be, “taking something that isn’t broken and breaking it.†The challenge for most engineers is that they start with some neat technology and start looking for a problem to solve. Which brings me to the […]
Chris Koehncke