One of the take-a-ways from the Skype living workplace survey was the point about the communications tool that is expected to have the biggest gain in usage next year will be video calling. This is not a stat to be taken lightly. And it's not all about Skype. Apple's FaceTime, Logitech's SightSpeed (a former client), client … Read more
Image by Getty Images via @daylife A new survey out today out from Skype shows that the popularity of remote working – or “teleworking” – is on the rise, and it’s being fueled by the advent of new technologies we’re all using and the perceived benefits that employers are seeing, including higher productivity and employee … Read more
LifeSize which is part of the Logitech family of video conferencing services and products is about to get a big boost with a certification from Microsoft's OCS platform. Their LifeSize HD video products will be qualified to be interoperable with Microsoft Office Communications Server for Unified Communications video calling within the enterprise and between one another's … Read more
Image by Getty Images via @daylife A new survey out today out from Skype shows that the popularity of remote working – or “teleworking” – is on the rise, and it's being fueled by the advent of new technologies we're all using and the perceived benefits that employers are seeing, including higher productivity and employee retention. That … Read more
If AT&T offers more bars in more places, T-Mobile is the mobile operator with more speed in more places. As of today they have added more markets to their "4G" network bringing it to 10 more markets, which means they estimate that their "4G" network now reaches 167 markets and more than 200 million people nationwide in … Read more
If you're in the UK with an iPad, or iPad2, mobile operator o2 has a gift for you that gives you more than the regular iPad data plan they offer. Now through April 14, if you top up your iPad they'll give you an extra GB of data use for your device starting on April … Read more
Image via CrunchBase Pac-West, one of the emerging mid-tier players in hosted VoIP, and Panasonic announced the certification of two Pananonic SIP phones for deployment on the Pac-West network today. While normally a boring type of news item, when put in conjunction with Pac-Weat being acquired by TelePacific and TelePacific's acquisition of former client Covad … Read more
Recently my wife bought two bottles of Big House Red at Trader Joes in Sacramento. It was the most recent vintage, likely 2009 and they were in her words, "horrible" with the second bottle worse than the first. What I didn't realize was that Bonny Doon had in the past few years sold off the … Read more
Last night news of yet another data breach came to my attention. This time it was Epslion, a Dallas, TX based permission marketer. By this morning already one of my credit card companies was notifying me to be on the lookout for spam emails that would fall into the category of Phishing attacks. Well, this … Read more
I was in Denver in 1988 working for the Denver Nuggets. US West was the telco and a few years later they became Qwest. The company had a lot of vision and big ideas. Of the major telcos back then Qwest with their CyberCenters and fiber network that was built out along side the same … Read more
