There has been a lot of analysis going around surrounding Apple's Guidance announcement. For starters Apple did the right thing by making the announcement, something any Investor Relations counselor would agree. They also did a lot more and three articles really demonstrate just how Apple is using the media to message the market. Slate 500ish … Read more
At a time of the year, well, the New Year, often there are SWAG (stupid wild ass guesses) that pop up from every corner of the media, all now magnified by the ability to self publish, um, I mean contribute to sites like Forbes, Huffington Post, Entrepreneur, Inc and many others. I tend to stay … Read more
VoIPWatch's first ever telecom poll has concluded. For those attending IT Expo this week in Fort Lauderdale, FL the results were revealed at the IDEA Showcase yesterday CPaaS led the voting with over 30% of the votes cast. This was followed by WebRTC and then Call/Contact Center technology. UCaaS came in fourth, evidence that the … Read more
No that wasn't Santa trying to reach the UK with gifts before Christmas. It was drones. London's Gatwick Airport, the UK's second largest airport was shut down for more than a day due to drones flying overhead. The end result was roughly 120,000 passengers were severely inconvenienced at a time of the year where travel … Read more
If you're a CMO or CEO of a startup or even a mid stage tech company, this post is for you… Over the past few months as I've gotten back into blogging, I've decided that my approach of writing, which is more surrounding the concept of IPO-insight, perspective, and opinion, is something that most PR … Read more
If you're a CMO or CEO of a startup or even a mid stage tech company, this post is for you… Over the past few months as I've gotten back into blogging, I've decided that my approach of writing, which is more surrounding the concept of IPO-insight, perspective, and opinion, is something that most PR … Read more
One of the benefits of the traditional landline from the by-gone era was reliability. Not only did your landline just work, its quality was pretty much the same regardless of where you were. It wasn't until the arrival of the PBX and in-building wiring from third parties before we started to see issues with call … Read more
If you're like me, the number of Robocalls that attempt to reach you in a day tends to outweigh the number of spontaneous calls from friends and colleagues that reach any of my VoIP or Mobile phone numbers. Long time industry marketer and product maven Alan Percy or TelcoBridges has a really nice recap for … Read more
The FCC has given mobile operators more power surrounding SMS, and in doing so have actually classified the service as different from texting applications and services like GoogleVoice, WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal and all the rest of the alternatives, including Apple's own iMessage. I say this because they went to great lengths to not include the … Read more
No matter how you look at the performcance of AOL-Yahoo under Verizon's ownership, you have to see it as a total failure. A writedown of $4.6 billion dollars will go down is in recent memory not quite as big as the Microsoft writedown of their Nokia purchase which was over $7 billion dollars. In many … Read more
