Growing up in the Philadelphia Flyers organization, around the age of 18 I read Ayn Rand's "The Fountainhead" as I learned that Ed Snider, someone I admire to this day as a business visionary, was a follower of her Onjectivist writings. A few years later, on a train based trip across Europe I read cover … Read more

Many will have forgotten the Fire Phone from Amazon. A total blunder. A miss. Or maybe not. Amazon does one thing better than any company. It learns from its mistakes and come back to fight another day. That's why I've been enjoying the back and forth discussions in the media and on twitter about Amazon … Read more

Tsahi has a nice post about video beyond the conference call today in his Blog Geek Me blog. Years back with SightSpeed we had this short video messaging concept VLIP that then CEO Peter Csathy had been pushing. It was way too early but it many ways it was a precursor to the services Tsahi … Read more

Last year, client SignalWire, the company that is changing the CPaaS game, and which grew out of the telecom stack of all stacks, FreeSWITCH, launched LAML, the acronym for Legacy Antiquated Markup Language, which takes developers' API code built on Twilio and converts it to be SignalWire ready. The message was simple. "COPY PASTE SAVE" … Read more

As a winelover, and as winemaker Doug Margerum once quipped, the "ultimate wine insider," when I was writing a wine column in San Diego, I think the online world for wine discovery and sales has helped boost more wine brands than it has been given credit for. Back in the early part of the decade … Read more

We often talk about UCaaS, CPaaS and CCaaS. What we really have is something originally pioneered by Dean Elwood and Voxygen years back called Voice as a Service. or VaaS. It was all about cloud service based voice communication but through all the various versions of BLANK as a Service the voice communications world has … Read more

It's never too early to talk about a fun and forward looking event, the IIT Real Time Communications Conference is slated again for Chicago on October 14, 15 and 16. The call for speakers is happening now, and tickets are available to early registrants. Even beter, as a reader of VoIPWatch an early bird offer … Read more

It's never too early to talk about a fun and forward looking event, the IIT Real Time Communications Conference slated again for Chicago on October 14, 15 and 16. The call for speakers is happening now, and tickets are available to early registrants. Even beter, as a reader of VoIPWatch an early bird offer from … Read more

Amazon Delivery with 72% of the country covered may end up being be their biggest business of them all, but delivery is the trojan horse. By starting to gain access to homes, cars or garages, Amazon has also taken the second step to being the access controls and security company for your home and small … Read more