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As a winelover, and as winemaker Doug Margerum once quipped, the "ultimate wine insider," when I was writing a wine column in San Diego, I think the online world for wine discovery and sales has helped boost more wine brands than it has been given credit for. Back in the early part of the decade … Read more

We often talk about UCaaS, CPaaS and CCaaS. What we really have is something originally pioneered by Dean Elwood and Voxygen years back called Voice as a Service. or VaaS. It was all about cloud service based voice communication but through all the various versions of BLANK as a Service the voice communications world has … Read more

It's never too early to talk about a fun and forward looking event, the IIT Real Time Communications Conference is slated again for Chicago on October 14, 15 and 16. The call for speakers is happening now, and tickets are available to early registrants. Even beter, as a reader of VoIPWatch an early bird offer … Read more

It's never too early to talk about a fun and forward looking event, the IIT Real Time Communications Conference slated again for Chicago on October 14, 15 and 16. The call for speakers is happening now, and tickets are available to early registrants. Even beter, as a reader of VoIPWatch an early bird offer from … Read more

Amazon Delivery with 72% of the country covered may end up being be their biggest business of them all, but delivery is the trojan horse. By starting to gain access to homes, cars or garages, Amazon has also taken the second step to being the access controls and security company for your home and small … Read more

You have to know Perpignan to understand why it was the right place for INDIGENES. The city is the gateway between Catalogne in Spain and France (Catalogne Sud and Nord as they say) and  Occitania which combines the top of the Roussillion and bottom of Languedoc area producers.  If France had a San Francisco it's … Read more

Robocalls are in the news. But when I think about my daily communications habits I'm not getting any.  Sure my regular dial up and mobile phone numbers rings throughout the day with calls from toll-free and from numbers that look like they're from a neighbor, when they're nothing but spam like calls.   But since the … Read more

Many will have likely forgotten that AT&T acquired TCI for $48 billion dollars, the John Malone started cable MSO, back in 1998. They also acquired Media One a few years later for $44 billion. That was back in the day when cable was more of a patchwork quilt of service providers and Comcast was just … Read more

There are two churning issues at the Federal Trade Comission and FCC levels that are rapidly converging. One is the dreaded, time sucking, annoying, fraud leaning, robocall issue and the second is Facebook and privacy. Both are a result of technology. And both will be solved by technology and government. In the case of Robocalling … Read more