VoIPWatch Named Number One VoIP Blog

I woke up this morning to the news that VoIPWatch was selected by Feedspot as the number one blog for VoIP in their Top 25 Voice over IP Blogs, News Websites & Newsletters in 2019 (VoIP). Honors like this are nice to receive, especially when I see the rest of the blogs listed. Having been … Read more

The Current State of Wine Sales in The USA

Let's say you like wines from New Zealand, but the wines you want are from a producer whose wines are not available for sale in your state of residence. The reason this happens is more than likely due to the importer not signing on a distributor in that state. So while the wine sits in … Read more

2017 La Fruit Defendu by Domaine Magellan

About ten years or so I first met winemaker Domaine Magellan's Bruno Lafon, the Burgundian transplant to the town of Pezenas when visiting with Sylvain Fadat of Domaine d’Aupilhac. As a long time Languedoc wine hunter I was impressed with what I tried that I made note of his work and kept an eye out … Read more

A Tale of Two Cocalieres by Domaine d’Aupilhac

I will always admit, I'm partial to the wines of Sylvain Fadat and Domaine d'Aupilhac, his small winery in the town of Montpeyroux. While Sylvain makes some super approachable, early drinking wines, like the high quality, value priced Lou Maset red, the wine that now defines Sylvain comes from his 20 year old vineyard, Cocalieres, … Read more

Twillio Is Transitioning

Twilio started out as a "developer first" company. That means they started building their business at the developer level and have started working their way up the ladder with the larger customers. Of late though, they have been sending all kinds of signals that they are wanting to be an "enterprise focused" business and shedding … Read more

Government That Governs Least Governs Best

The government that governs least, governs best has long been a bastion of the USA. For centuries our laws and regulations have been based on letting industries self-govern and self-regulate. It's only when they don't that the government steps in. That's what is happening with robocalling. Despite input from industry giants including the mobile operators, … Read more

Return of the Anywhere Worker

A few years ago, Dialpad launched a very timely and on the money campaign all about the "Anywhere Worker." That was something I could identify with easily for a lot of reasons. When I launched Comunicano in 1993 the goal was to never have a physical office. This was well before the idea of remote … Read more

Mitel and MLB is a Home Run

I caught up with Mitel's SVP of Global Technical Operations, Peter Polizzi,  last week to talk about Mitel's efforts with pro sports teams around the world. Their efforts include a league-wide effort with Major League Baseball, a handful of UK soccer teams and a recently announced goal scored with the NHL's Los Angeles Kings. What … Read more

Is The DoJ Going to Look At Amazon Next?

Distract. Defame. Destroy. ..that's the game that's being played out against Amazon and Jeff Bezos. And it's wrong!!! All one needs to do is look at the Medium post by the founder of Amazon as he artfully set the stage to bring to light an attempt by to silence him and his newspaper, the Washington … Read more