Consumerization of IT (Photo credit: Ross Mayfield) They BYOD (bring your own device) movement is weakening the IT departments ability to manage and if I go Post Hoc Ergo Proctor Hoc (if this, therefore, thenfore that) consumerization of the enterprise (COtE) would be the death star for IT Managers according to Gartner which makes their … Read more
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
CLEARWIRE LOGO.png (Photo credit: Wikipedia) NetZero (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Image via CrunchBase Some in marketing call it the razor blade strategy, where you give away the razor and make the customers buy the blades. On a more urban level, the idea is cruder, but every bit as effective. It's called the drug dealer strategy where … Read more
Image via CrunchBase In an Op-Ed type of guest column in Forbes, founder and CEO of Level3 Jim Crowe has called out the FCC, AT&T and Verizon in what could become the firestarter of a battle in Washington, D.C. over wired and wireless access. It's a far reaching but clear "slap in the face" to … Read more
Over the last few months, and actually as far back as last year the signs that Skype was getting out of the business market were painfully obvious to many of us long time Skypewatchers. Fist was the discontinuation of Skype for Asterisk. Then was the abrupt departure of David Gurle who had been hired to … Read more
Pal Jon Arnold has written a killer post about cloud based video, citing the rationale of clients Vidtel and Telesphere and why they have invested in the space, but also going more deeply into why, how come and what will make companies with their video calling heads in the clouds worth something. Jon was very thorough … Read more
Image via Wikipedia TAPAS, which stands for the Tempranillo Adovactes Producers and Amigos Society announced their annual Grand Tasting event for June 9th in San Francisco. If you like wines from Spain and Portugal, then here's the opportunity to see what's being done here in the states with Tempranillo. Both long time friends David Corey … Read more
Osteria in Arezzo (Photo credit: Monica Arellano-Ongpin) Over the past few nights in Italy I've come across both the 2007 and 2008 Arnaldo-Caprai Montefalco Rosso both in Rome at the imaginative Glass Hostoria and last night at Ristorante Osteria del Teatro in Foligno (where I'm going back again tonight). While the 07 at Glass Hostoria … Read more
Image of Qupé via Snooth Sadly, due to my flight schedule I'll be missing the San Diego chapter wine event of Family Winemakers tasting. My passes arrived but I'll be flying back from London this coming Sunday. But….that means I'm even more focused on the upcoming Rhone Rangers tasting in San Francisco, the weekend of … Read more
