Image by mohamedn via Flickr Since 1998, Ken Rutkowski and I have co-hosted KenRadio's World Technology Roundup, and while we've been missing for a few weeks due to Ken's travel and mine, I can't pass up this opportunity to wish him a Happy Birthday.
Image via CrunchBase Last week the world saw that Amazon Web Services EC2 went down, wrecking havoc with many so called Cloud based startups. Later in the week I fell victim to the JungleDisk DNS outage, and while Rackspace which manages JungleDisk, even though my data sits on Amazon,was able to maintain data integrity, the … Read more
Cisco wants you to know why Unified Communications is in your future…and here are six reasons why.
Image by Getty Images via @daylife A new survey out today out from Skype shows that the popularity of remote working – or “teleworking” – is on the rise, and it’s being fueled by the advent of new technologies we’re all using and the perceived benefits that employers are seeing, including higher productivity and employee … Read more
LifeSize which is part of the Logitech family of video conferencing services and products is about to get a big boost with a certification from Microsoft's OCS platform. Their LifeSize HD video products will be qualified to be interoperable with Microsoft Office Communications Server for Unified Communications video calling within the enterprise and between one another's … Read more
Image by Getty Images via @daylife A new survey out today out from Skype shows that the popularity of remote working – or “teleworking” – is on the rise, and it's being fueled by the advent of new technologies we're all using and the perceived benefits that employers are seeing, including higher productivity and employee retention. That … Read more
Image via CrunchBase Pac-West, one of the emerging mid-tier players in hosted VoIP, and Panasonic announced the certification of two Pananonic SIP phones for deployment on the Pac-West network today. While normally a boring type of news item, when put in conjunction with Pac-Weat being acquired by TelePacific and TelePacific's acquisition of former client Covad … Read more
Recently my wife bought two bottles of Big House Red at Trader Joes in Sacramento. It was the most recent vintage, likely 2009 and they were in her words, "horrible" with the second bottle worse than the first. What I didn't realize was that Bonny Doon had in the past few years sold off the … Read more
Last night news of yet another data breach came to my attention. This time it was Epslion, a Dallas, TX based permission marketer. By this morning already one of my credit card companies was notifying me to be on the lookout for spam emails that would fall into the category of Phishing attacks. Well, this … Read more
I was in Denver in 1988 working for the Denver Nuggets. US West was the telco and a few years later they became Qwest. The company had a lot of vision and big ideas. Of the major telcos back then Qwest with their CyberCenters and fiber network that was built out along side the same … Read more
