Pajama Entrepreneur

Skype has been down for 24 hours. There is an alternative to Skype. It’s called Gizmo Project. It allows the same free calls to other users of Gizmo (and other VOIP networks and devices that use SIP). You can also make very inexpensive calls to landline and mobile phones, and get a phone number in [...]

If there’s anything that ruins a good trip, it’s coming back and dreading the roaming charges on the next mobile phone bill. Since I live in a country the size of a postage stamp (the Netherlands), any trip I make will line the pockets of Orange Netherlands (now a T-Mobile subsidiary), for every phone call [...]

It’s been a week since the launch of the iPhone. Walt Mossberg (Wall Street Journal) and David Pogue (New York Times) have posted their very positive reviews. A lot of people in San Francisco rushed out to buy it including my friends. At dinner the other night, I had a chance to play with the [...]

The Wall Street Journal reports that Sprint Nextel, a US mobile carrier, is sending letters to 1000 subscribers, terminating their contracts because they had the temerity to call customer service “too often”. They called customer service 25 times in a month, mostly on billing matters. The article did not go into detail about what “billing [...]

Research firm In-Stat reports that there’s a substantial market niche for Wi-Fi enabled mobile phones:
A recent survey of US early adopters found that almost half of those respondents plan to replace their cell phones want Wi-Fi capability. To meet the growing demand, there is an avalanche of dual-mode phones in the pipeline. By the end [...]