Started my day at Willi's Wine Bar and saw pal Mark Williamson before he ran off to deal with his quarterly tax and accounting matters. We caught up and agreed to find one another in a week or so down in Montpellier during ViniSud. While at Willi's I met his new bar/wine tenders. Becky and … Read more
Image of Domaine du Cayron via Snooth Knowing I'm heading to Vinisud, which is hands down my favorite wine event that happens every other year in Lattes, France (just outside of Montpellier) in a few weeks I decided to get more Rhone grape focused. Last night here in Amsterdam I was able to locate the … Read more
8×8 has a birthday. They're now 25 years old. The company has had a lot of transitions, but the core to their business is a patent portfolio that puts things inside real time communications hardware and software. Here's a list of their milestones: 8×8 Highlights and Milestones: 1987 – 8×8 founded under the name Integrated … Read more
I needed to pick up a local SIM for a friend visiting the UK in a month or so, and the carrier of choice for me when it comes to a single country SIM in the UK is usually 3. Their plain language approach and, now a new 15 pound a month plan for voice–300 … Read more
Yesterday the Medill Reports Ben Shamisso penned a piece regarding the war of attrititon between the legacy deskphone and their looming replacements-smartphones and tablets. In the story both CounterPath's SVP Todd Carothers and I were quoted. My view is centered around the concept of utility. People will simply get more use out of a tablet … Read more
Image via Wikipedia Image of Domaine d'Aupilhac via Snooth Del Mar California may be about as far as anywhere from the town of Montpeyroux, France, but as far as I'm concerned, Montpeyroux and the wines of Sylvain Fadat, and Domaine d'Aupilhac is only as far as my cellar is. Last night as part of the … Read more
Image via Wikipedia Image via Wikipedia Last night a few friends and I gathered at Pamplemousse Grille, the local restaurant of choice for us because of our friendship with Jeffrey Strauss and his outstanding staff. Jeffrey is kind enough to allow us to BYOB with our personal gems so in keeping with our promise to … Read more
Image via CrunchBase Just as we're seeing Over the Top (OTT) in voice and data service impacting the legacy mobile operators and telcos, there's also a movement afoot thats going to challenge the legacy video conferencing providers like BT, Verizon, Glowpoint (I'm a shareholder) and the rest who have been in the business of white … Read more
If you haven't read pal Martin Geddes latest post on the Future of Communications entitled Peak Telecom, you are missing something that is likely either something you have likely said, thought, heard someone say in private or really wished you had. It's a stunningly brilliant piece of writing that leads you to wonder, "what is … Read more
There's one reason I'm excited about IT Expo. It's called Startup Camp. Startup Camp is perhaps the most relevant example of what is really happening in the telecom and tech world today at the twice annual confernence. For the past four StartUpCamp they have had standing room only crowds, and key speakers iincluding startup luminaries … Read more
