Supernova Interview: JP Rangaswami

JP Rangaswami is the Managing Director of BT Design, a unit of British Telecom. He’s also much more than that. A long time blogger and Web 2.0 technology advocate, he was named as one of the top “Agenda Setters” by Silicon.com, above Ray Kurzweil, Craig Mundie of Microsoft,  and Howard Stringer of Sony.

At the 140 Characters Conference in New York last week, I spoke with JP about how Business and Strategy are changing due to ubiquitous networks and new ways to access data. He noted that “Things that were previously synchronous, like voice communications, can now be asynchronous, and things that were previously asynchronous [like knowing people status, location or current work] can be synchronous.” There’s much more in the video.

JP Rangaswami is one of the many voices participating in the conversation here at Supernova Hub and at Supernova2009.

Google Grabs One Million Phone Numbers

According to NetworkWorld and ReadWriteWeb, Google has reserved one million phone numbers via Level 3.  NetworkWorld’s John Fontana writes:

“Google last month reserved 1 million phone numbers with Level 3, signaling that it may finally be ready to roll out its long-anticipated Google Voice service.

The free service, announced in March, lets users unify their phone numbers, allowing them to have a single number through Google Voice that rings a call through to all their phones.

Sources could not say when the 1 million numbers may be assigned. Level 3 has been supplying Google with phone numbers since the introduction of Google Voice, so the 1 million numbers are an indication Google is close to adding a significant amount of users.”

The question: How will a broader rollout of Google Voice affect/integrate/expand the Android mobile user base?