Image via CrunchBase Earlier this month Comcast announced their moves into the business and enterprise market with VoIP, all based upon their prior acquisition of NGT and the fact that they have pretty much updated their patchwork network they inherited from their may cable company acquisitions that seemed to be put together with spit, chewing … Read more
Spotted this advertisement today at Barcelona International Airport as I left town following a very successful series of days at Mobile World Congress.
Client CounterPath is making sure no stone is unturned when it comes to keeping it's lead in the softphone category with carriers. Their latest news is all around the RCS-e standard that the GSMA has embraced. Basically, this give the mobile operators a softphone application that is focused on the use of IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) … Read more
Yesterday I referenced the region in the Roussillion that has once again captured my attention. Over dinner on Sunday night my conversation with the winemaker of these wines, led to an exploration of D66, the wine road that bisects the Maury. And yes, like our own Route 66 the adventure is around every bend. The … Read more
Forget Wall Street and the London Stock Exchange. Occupy: Grenache has taken over Vinisud with nearly every wine being poured being related to Grenache. Call it Blanc, gris or rouge and Grenache is being found everywhere at the every other year Grenache fete. And the Occupy Gang of Pour was out in force with dozens … Read more
A new Languedoc discovery from the low hills of Gignac comes Domaine L’Hermas, and youthful winemaker Matthieu Torquebrau. He’s made two wines, a 2010 red from Syrah and Mourvedre that is well balanced, deeply knitted ad full on the mouth with black fruit and blueberry tastes. His 2011 white is a blend of Vermentino, Roussanne … Read more
Roussillion wine expert, author and friend Michel Smith has taken a page out of the book of others, and made a stunning all Carignan wine from grapes that come from vineyards that are over 60 years old. His Cotes des Catalanes wine named Puch, is forward and precocious but loaded with violets, black raspberry, sour … Read more
Domaine d’Aupilhac’s Sylvain Fadat is upgrading his winery look along with the ever improving wines. The 2011 Lou Maset red may be his best ever. Having been tasting it the last week almost every day I can only hold my breath for it to arrive in the USA. Syrah, Cinsault, Grenache, Carignan and Mourvedre are … Read more
I’m at one of the so called Offs the day before Vinisud begins in Montpellier France tasting wines well before lunch. The most interesting wines are coming not from the Languedoc but from Serbia, Portugal and Italy. Maybe they stand out because they are different, but my palate is telling me that variety is the … Read more
