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
Image via Wikipedia The other night a good friend and I went to Roy's La Jolla with three bottles of wine from my cellar. The 2005 Il Prove Blanc de Blanc, from Corsica, was perfect. A golden colored hue, with a bouquet of fresh sea air and hillside grass. It was smooth, and so different … Read more
Image via Wikipedia Sprint is about to get into a battle with the FCC and the MICC over texting, or rather what can be texted. The MICC, which stands for Mobile Internet Content Coalition, has alleged that what Sprint is about to do on April 1st is "to restrict the content that consumers can receive in … Read more
Image via Wikipedia So my Verizon LTE Samsung 4G LTE modem arrived today. Unlike my iPad2, the "need it now, want it all the time" feeling isn't quite here with the new way to "stay connected." While I have no "buyers remorse" my initial feelings are sorta like, this. "It's nice. It's faster than 3G. … Read more
The phone call is dead. Long live the call. Do you call someone or phone them? Well, that depends. It depends if you’re using a telephone or something else to make the call. Lately in discussions with clients we’ve been moving them all away from the use of the phrase “phone call” and over to … Read more
