The world, including Wall Street, is currently singing the praises of Google, the one-time internet minnow that took on the creme de la creme of search engine giants, including Yahoo and others, and won. Now, just as a once skeptical market is sending the recently listed Google stock into the stratosphere, along comes another internet upstart that threatens to blow down Google's carefully constructed castle of cards.

Today, mobile carrier Vodafone did a little jig and made a song and dance about how we should all ditch our landlines because finally it has brought us affordable mobile internet with its Vodafone Mobile Connect (VMC) product.  However, you would be crazy to ditch your landline for this product.