Today in the Wall Street Journal, Comcast reports an 80% rise in profits due to the bundling of voice, video and data.. aka the Triple Play.
While I was at Netcentrex, this is the story we would continually tell our customers. Bundling these services creates a convenience for the customer, but it also radically [...]
April 23, 2007 – 10:20 am
Thank you to Jack Ivers who put up this review and a link to my talk at Web 2.0.
My speech pathologist wife, who attended one of my talks for the first time said, “You didn’t swear once! Good job, honey. Now, let’s try to get you to slow down a little bit.”
Thomas S. Howe [...]
April 23, 2007 – 10:12 am
Check out this latest post from Moshe. Thank you for dreaming that we might live in a world where we can actually provide some value to customers, and that they might pay for it. Honest to God, I sometimes think our whole industry has this collective self-esteem problem.
Thomas S. Howe - [...]
Interpid reporter Andy Abramson digs this one up… Perhaps there’s some movement in the Vonage patent matter, as 3Com apparently filed a patent in 1996 (patent number 6,529,501), which references the same approach, but might be considered prior art. I’m not a patent lawyer (don’t even play one on TV), but if it’s true [...]
Personal hero Om Malik has a new addition to the GigaOM family… found read. It’s a site for startup founders and stakeholders, to share ideas and advice. Check it out.
Here’s the the best advice I ever got on startups, from my boss Chuck Holland, the manager from the book “Soul of a New [...]
Thank you to everyone who attended my session today at the Web 2.0 expo. I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did - I am always amazed at how amazing the things you do are.
A few people asked me for the slides, and I have uploaded them on SlideShare here. [...]
A long time ago, I worked with a completely brilliant man named Bernard. I wish I had taken more careful notes while we worked together, because I find that I continually hear his voice in the back of my head giving advice. When I caught that Andy Abramson blogged about Vonage not having a [...]
Well, off I go to the Web 2.0 show. Considering how much I learned at the ETel show, I’m sure that this is going to be another mind blowing experience. I really can’t pick which of the sessions I would like to attend - they all seem so necessary. I’ll tell [...]
April 11, 2007 – 10:55 am
I truly believe that presence is an important enabler for applications, and the example I was thinking about in the last presence post was Iotum’s Talk Now. (In full disclosure here, I am on their advisory board, which means that I really believe in what they are doing. I expect no material benefit [...]