Over the past week logging into GizmoProject has been at best like playing Russian Roulette. Sometimes the service is up, and other times, its down. Jason Droege, President of SipPhone attributes this to growing pains and the increase in users they are seeing. I take this as a good thing in the long run as … Read more
Integration doesn’t work. Its been tried for years in many companies and it takes years to achieve. When I was with a Top Ten Ad Agency’s Integrated Marketing Division our offices adjoined and were inside the mother ships offices. Did the Account Teams work together? No. The ad agency’s clients went to competitors for sales … Read more
Will Your Email Address Be Your Phone Number? If a startup out of Israel called YOOMBA has their way it will. Here’s what I heard from their reps in NYC. Today, online communications offerings like Yahoo, Windows Live Messenger and Skype exist as part of closed networks – in order to communicate with users on … Read more
Network World has a story about the “horror” Marriott’s IT crew went through with the advent of demand for bandwidth inside hotels. The story is very well positioned and contains many points that were brought up to me in a recent chat with a Marriott executive. What this also tells me is that until recently … Read more
Pal Rich Tehrani and I seem to be on the same page when it comes to email, as is his colleague Tom Keating. Since CES I have been using the phrase “email is a broken model.” To me IM and Voice are far better ways to communicate and to know that the other side got … Read more
Phil Wolff has a neat, short, simple and direct feature list of what the next version of iChat from Apple will look like. If you use or care about video conferencing, the list is a must read about what Apple decided are must haves.
Wired reports that high end, room filling Telepresence is rapidly gaining momentum, fueled largely by the likes of Cisco, HP, Polycom and Tandberg. But are they interoperable? If anything is holding back mass adoption of video conferencing its the lack of interoperability. For example. I like to use SightSpeed. Pal Ken Rutkowski likes to use … Read more
For years mobile phone users have complained about lousy service, poor coverage and dropped calls. If those problems didn’t exist why would the mobile operators make such claims in the television ads the way they do here in the USA (Cingular, Verizon). This item from GeekZone in New Zealand pretty much sums up why mobile … Read more
You can’t go everywhere and you can’t be everywhere so I’m not attending the Skype Developer’s Conference this week as much as I would like to. Fortunately Jim Courtney of Skype Journal will be there and I’m sure he’ll be providing excellent, man on the street, like reporting. Skype is at a crossroads. They are … Read more
Pal Carl Ford of PulverMedia told me the other day that Security is one of the hot topics he’s been getting asked about for the upcoming Fall VON in Boston the end of October. That’s one subject I don’t profess to really dig too deeply into, not because I don’t care, but because others can … Read more
