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Free Press Pushes for Open Communications from Every Angle

Lonnie Lazar — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 06:28:10 +0000

When many people hear about something called the Free Press, if the term rings a bell at all, they tend to think of the Detroit Free Press, the venerable old-line newspaper that’s been published out of the Motor City for 178 years. Nowadays, however freepress.net is a web 2.0 property whose mission is no less than [...]

From the Forums: News You Can Use

Lonnie Lazar — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 04:59:47 +0000

Each Tuesday we comb through the Voxilla forums looking for interesting, sometimes off-beat, under-publicized and useful information brought to our attention by loyal and active Voxilla forum members. If you’re aware of something that ought to get the wider attention of a front-page audience, be sure to let us know in comments below or send us [...]

T-Mobile’s myTouch Due in August - Will Anyone Care?

Lonnie Lazar — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 21:38:47 +0000

T-Mobile will unveil the company’s second attempt to make an Android smartphone matter in the North American market come August, according to a report Monday at TechCrunch, and while the phone appears to have some worthy features its eventual success remains an open question. To be called the myTouch and sell for $199, according to the [...]

Google Voice Readies for Public Launch with 1 Million Phone numbers

Lonnie Lazar — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 22:57:19 +0000

Google has reserved at least 1 million phone numbers with Level 3, a CLEC (competitive local exchange carrier) that is probably the world’s largest provider of VoIP backbone services, indicating that the company best known for its Internet search engine is preparing for a significant uptick in business related to Google Voice. Sources could not say [...]

AT&T Improves WiFi Connectivity for iPhone Users

Lonnie Lazar — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:48:52 +0000

AT&T announced changes to its WiFi connection process Wednesday that should improve the user experience for the company’s iPhone-using customers and may relieve the strain on its 3G network that some believe has been a result of the iPhone’s unprecedented popularity. The press release Wednesday coincided with Apple’s release of 3.0 firmware for its family of [...]

From the Forums: News You Can Use

Lonnie Lazar — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:12:29 +0000

Every Tuesday find interesting links and discussions culled from the Voxilla reader forums right here on the cover. If you’ve got a topic or discussion you feel needs wider distribution, be sure and comment, with a link in the comments to the Tuesday forum post as well. With that, on to this week’s highlights: Mobile VoIP is [...]

Cicsco Sees Unabated Growth in Networking Traffic - Video is Your Future

Lonnie Lazar — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 19:22:37 +0000

Cisco published this week an update to its Visual Networking Index Forecast, an ongoing initiative to track and forecast the impact of visual networking applications on Global IP traffic that predicts a near future with compound annual growth rates (CAGR) exceeding 30% in many categories, and a world in which Zetabytes of traffic will soon [...]

Gogo a no go on VoIP

Eric Chamberlain — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 23:21:51 +0000

I was very excited when I got to the airport and saw that AirTran offered in-flight WiFi. Who knew you could get WiFi on a flight from San Francisco to Milwaukee? I’ve been dying to try VoIP over the Gogo Inflight Internet Service for some time now. For $12.95, you get Gogo’s “unlmited” Internet access while [...]

Virgin Mobile Offers No-Contract Mobile Broadband Access

Lonnie Lazar — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 14:44:32 +0000

Virgin Mobile USA has announced no-contract Broadband2Go plans that offer mobile broadband users an interesting, though expensive option over standard large-carrier contract plans. Using the Sprint EVDO Rev. A network, Virgin Mobile is offering the Novatel Ovation MC760 USB dongle for $150 and pre-paid data in increments of 100MB, 250MB, 500MB and 1GB. As one might [...]

From the Forums: News You Can Use

Lonnie Lazar — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 04:18:51 +0000

Every Tuesday we bring to the Voxilla front page several interesting threads from our user forums that we believe deserve a wider audience or that might help Voxilla readers get the most value from the time they spend on the site. Usually the Tuesday Forum post goes up in the morning but this week we’ve been [...]