It has been a little over a year now since I was called while on my honeymoon by the GigaOm COO, now CEO, Paul Walborsky, with the news of Om’s heart attack. Om has been a great patient and if he have seen him lately, you’ll know he’s been living a very different life than … Read more
Client GIPS today announced that Citrix, known very well for Go To Meeting, will be deploying the GIPS Voice Engine and the Voice Conference Engine. Last fall Citrix acquired VAPPS, best known for its HighDef Conferencing platform so the move makes a lot of sense. As someone who spends a lot of time on conference … Read more
Moshe Maeir from Flat Planet Phone Company has posted about his newest development, a Least Cost Routing Engine for mobile. LCR has been around for years. Many years. I added LCR back in the 80s when I was serving as the Office Manager for the Philadelphia Flyers and had the pleasure of over seeing their … Read more
Voice Broadcast of messages has always been a promise, that fell short in one area. Delivery. Now client ifByPhone is taking a page out of the Domino's Pizza and Federal Express (FedEx) playbook of successful business practices. They're guaranteeing the on time delivery of broadcast messages. How easy is it to use? Put it this … Read more
In reviewing the results of a recently announced Cisco IT services study reveals to me that many of the concepts including unified communications, the use of video in communications and streaming media, three technologies I've been heavily involved with and a consumer of are simply too challenging, even for IT professionals, on a variety of … Read more
Do you have lousy cellular coverage in your home? Is your office in a part of the building where coverage just almost makes it? Never fear, the Femtocells are coming and they’re promising to solve all your problems. We’ll see.
Stuart Henshall is ranting about his experience with Comcast, one that other customers of there’s have shared publicly or privately in the past. It’s not far different from what caused the movie “Cable Guy” to become a great example of art imitating life. That’s Comcast. But Stuart has to take a moment and think about … Read more
Jaiku takes residence in the Boulevard of Broken Dreams is the visual I that came to mind of when I read Ken Camp’s latest post about Jaiku. Maybe you know the painting. “Welcome to the Machine” by Pink Floyd is the song that I thought of as I reread Ken’s post. Here’s the part of … Read more
Since September I’ve been saying on KenRadio.com that Google is in for a very rough Q1 in 2009. One doesn’t need to be a genius to know that in this economy, advertising will be down, and given that Q1 is always a slow quarter anyway, the outlook for Google to slow down was obvious (or … Read more
I’ve been saying that IP based video conferencing will be taking off in 2009 and it looks like I’m right with that prediction. NASA and Verizon have reworked their agreements and now will have IP based video and web conferencing supplied by the Baby Bell. At the same time, Forbes is reporting how well the … Read more
