Amazon Will Go Prime at Retail

At a time of the year, well, the New Year, often there are SWAG (stupid wild ass guesses) that pop up from every corner of the media, all now magnified by the ability to self publish, um, I mean contribute to sites like Forbes, Huffington Post, Entrepreneur, Inc and many others. I tend to stay … Read more

Telecom In 2019 Was Revealed at IT Expo

VoIPWatch's  first ever telecom poll has concluded.  For those attending IT Expo this week in Fort Lauderdale, FL the results were revealed at the IDEA Showcase yesterday CPaaS led the voting with over 30% of the votes cast. This was followed by WebRTC and then Call/Contact Center technology. UCaaS came in fourth, evidence that the … Read more

Drones Over Gatwick

No that wasn't Santa trying to reach the UK with gifts before Christmas. It was drones. London's Gatwick Airport, the UK's second largest airport was shut down for more than a day due to drones flying overhead. The end result was roughly 120,000 passengers were severely inconvenienced at a time of the year where travel … Read more

WSJ on Non-Mainstream Wines

There are reviews and then there's what Lettie Teague does at the Wall Street Journal. Her column today is why I enjoy her writing more than that of most "consumer" wine reviewers. The reason is simple. Lettie is willing to go off the beaten track more and more, and helps draw attention to wines from … Read more

OTT Voice Calling Challenges

One of the benefits of the traditional landline from the by-gone era was reliability. Not only did your landline just work, its quality was pretty much the same regardless of where you were. It wasn't until the arrival of the PBX and in-building wiring from third parties before we started to see issues with call … Read more

Is It A Text or Not?

The FCC has given mobile operators more power surrounding SMS, and in doing so have actually classified the service as different from texting applications and services like GoogleVoice, WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal and all the rest of the alternatives, including Apple's own iMessage. I say this because they went to great lengths to not include the … Read more