David Greenfield at ZDNet has a wonderfully insightful post about Cisco’s moves to enhance their collaboration efforts in big ways. What’s interesting is many of the moves they are making are exclusive of their WebEx franchise. Rumors have long made the rounds internally and externally about the WebEx product suffering from a bad case of … Read more
It looks like Apple is taking some protectionist steps around next generation enhancements to iChat. The folks a MacNet News have dug into some recent patent application filings by the crew in Curpertino and found some revealing details.
With the Mobile World Congress looming next week, and a busy travel schedule you’ve noticed the blogging has been lighter than usual. Well, I’ve been boning up on what’s happening at MWC next week. In my view the best coverage will come from three areas: 1) The analysts who blog 2) The bloggers 3) The … Read more
Sharon A. O’Leary Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer and Secretary for Vonage has reportedly turned in her resignation today. After all the battling she’s done with the likes of Verizon, Sprint, AT&T and many others she’s calling it a day I hear.
When eBay put started their search for a new CEO for Skype, one of the slow down messages was that eBay was pursuing strategic alternatives for the disruptive service. Skype certainly hasn’t been the boon they expected it to be, and now with Meg out of the way, a new CEO in place and a … Read more
J.A. Watson’s musing about client SightSpeed, and in turn Peter Csathy, neighbor, friend, colleague, client, got me thinking about my philosophy of Me Too, Me Also, Me Different. I want to add, Me Copy. Me Copy is the concept of taking an under exposed feature of a successful product and exploiting it as “New” when … Read more
I’ll admit upfront to being a Gagdet Guy, aka as a Toy Idiot by some who are less inclined to care about having all the latest, and sometime simply, one hit wonders. This story in the India Tech Times profiles three devices that on the surface converge functionality and make things simpler for consumers but … Read more
One of the news items last week that I liked was Gizmo Project adding Instant Messaging support for MySpace IM. It’s good, but I wish they had the kind of privacy features SightSpeed added in 2007 that keeps things safer. TechCrunch’s Duncan Riley has a nice recap today. The safe IM part aside, what I … Read more
I applaud Markus for his critical analysis of the benefits of call through. He has identified the core reason why Call Through is a big benefit to consumers. In making his analysis Markus takes on pal Dean Bubley, who has a slightly different perspective. My view is that VoIP is present in both arguments, but … Read more
Is 44 Billion dollars the right price? Well, the acquisition of Yahoo by Microsoft would certainly help MSFT a lot in the quest to stay in the online world battle against Google. The two do fit nicely together. Both understand content, advertising, entertainment. There’s a lot of complimentary benefits. Here’s why. Yahoo which has a … Read more
