Often times we book flights on airlines that sell tickets under code share agreements with other airlines. Case in point my first of three "Lufthansa" flights to Prague at the start of the trip back in May was on United to Houston, while my two continuation flights were on Lufthansa. Check in on either airline, … Read more
If all goes as planned, the acquisition of Time Warner Cable by Charter Communications will bring with it the usual cable industry merger side affect. Cable swaps. Cable swaps occur whenever one company merges with another and there are pieces and parts that just don't fit. A perfect example is in my area of San … Read more
Verizon is in the final throes of acquiring the modern day AOL. And while Google, and likely a few others are in the wings, unless something last minute happens AOL for the second time will be acquired by a legacy company from the old school era who is looking to move fully into the digital … Read more
Over the past few weeks Dell has been having a series of posts on their "PowerMore" blog site about the subjects of VoIP and Unified Communications. Today, a third appeared in which some of my thoughts are shared. But don't think Dell is doing this just because Voice and Unified Communications are topics of interest … Read more
San Francisco based Switch Communications today announced they raised $35 million dollars in a strategic Series C round, adding to their $18 million already raised previously. TechCrunch's Ryan Lawler has the news. Switch offers a cloud based telephony service aimed at businesses and enterprise customers and also supplies conference calling services under the UberConference brand. The … Read more
The group of analysts and media assembled at the Dimension Data Perspectives 2015 are all a day and a half into the full two day gathering. Without question it is an “A” list of the who’s who from IDC, Forrester, Gartner Nemertes, Ovum, UC Strategies and more along with a smattering of key media and … Read more
I’m in Prague for the Dimension Data Perspectives 2015 Analyst event and had to catch up with a friend in Melbourne. We usually talk using Viber and text between that and WhatsApp. After a 10 minute of so text exchange I just called her, using the new VoIP functionality inside WhatApp for the first time. … Read more
Yesterday IHS Infonetics put out their Unified Communications Scorecard f0r 2015 ranking 8×8 first. I asked 8×8 why they thought they were deserving of the title and this is why they feel they're better: Elite Touch - For National and International customer onboarding Solution design: Gather customer requirements, perform a thorough network assessment, identify all of the … Read more
39. That's the number of companies that my agency and I have been involved in that have exited in the last 15 years. Tomorrow on the AIM, the junior market of the London Stock Exchange has Verseon, going public at a 310 million pound valuation. That makes the company's street value over $450 million dollars, … Read more
The headline says it all. Now, at least with United Healthcare, doctors can make house calls using video technology. And this is a big deal, a point Wired touches on in their story. It's a big deal because it offers patients and practitioners more options, but it's only the start. With WebRTC having a very … Read more
