The Comunicano Daily for Tuesday January 28th, 2014

        The Comunicano Daily       Hello from Miami (Beach) and the 2014 edition of the winter version of iT Expo staged so well by the good folks at TMC. Clients are here, friends are here and everything but the sun is here, as an overcast Miami isn't what was expected. But … Read more

The Comunicano Daily for Wednesday January 22, 2014

  The Comunicano Daily     The year so far has been rather light on major news in my view. CES sucked up a lot of air, the two teams heading to the Super Bowl in New York are not from large TV markets which will drive down the value of the commercials that millions are … Read more

Who Needs A Laptop? I’ve Got the Cloud

It all started with my MacBook Air. Once I had my first one, I started using cloud storage. I had so many different Macs and PC’s that storing files “in the cloud” was more logical than trying to keep files in sync or traveling around the globe with a portable hard drive. Next came the … Read more

Commentary on A Month Without iOS

VC, angel, blogger Brad Feld wrote a very passionate post about his plan to move for a month from iOS to Android on his blog this past week. A day or so later VentureBeat picked up the post and reposted it, and the Twittersphere picked up on it adding greater social amplification. Feld's post has … Read more

Esporao 2011 Quatro Castas 4 Red

Back in the fall of 2012 I took a bit of a departure from Lisbon and Cascais and went down to the the Alentejo region of Portugal to taste some wines at Esparao, one of the larger producers who make quality wines in the region. That trip, my second to the winery in a few … Read more

Where Is The Innovation in Communications?

Back when I started VoIPWatch innovation was happening in voice, video and collaboration. That was in the era where Jeff Pulver coined the phrase “Purple Minutes”, Alec Saunders crafted his VoIP Manifesto, Skype was still a fledgling independent, Michael Robertson was busy figuring out Gizmo Project with the likes of Jeff Bonforte, James Tagg was … Read more

Thoughts on ….Wi-Fi and 4G

I'm in Melbourne, Australia for the week. Working from here, in a nice one bedroom hotel apartment in the Fitzroy section of town. Fitzroy can best be described as the Mission in San Francisco meets Venice Beach in Los Angeles. Very hip, trendy, not far from the cool kids and loaded with coffee shops and … Read more

The Comunicano Daily for Wednesday November 27 2013

    The Comunicano Daily           As the Holiday Weekend is about to begin that means travel so the item below about Carry On Bag Mania which I was quoted in, again demonstrates how being quick to provide commentary secured the lead quote in the story. This is a wake up call … Read more

The Comunicano Daily-for Tuesday November 19 2013

        The Comunicano Daily           Recently I was asked by one of the writers at ProfNet to help explain Google's New Helpout service demonstrating that knowledge leadership and a stead presence online leads to media seeking you out as an expert. Replying quickly with key points it led to … Read more