A private equity firm, Searchlight, is buying Mitel for 2 Billion dollars reports TechCrunch. This is no surprise but clearly the buy of Shoretel helped as the cloud focus of Shortel is the direction where things are heading, while Mitel has a large list of legacy telco customers. It's an interesting buyout by a PE … Read more
This weekend I ventured up to Lompoc and the 36th Annual Santa Barbara Vintners Festival. Having been to previous events as far back the early 90s the event, the participants and the attendees has clearly changed, as has the tone of the event over the years. The crowd was more local. The tone more subdued. … Read more
Tercero Wines Larry Schaffer is a long time wine industry renegade. He doesn't make wine for critics. He doesn't chase scores and he epitomizes the spirit of a Rhone Ranger. That's why every time I get the chance to taste something that isn't only oh so Rhoney from him, I jump at it. Yesterday I … Read more
I grew up in Philadelphia and was a regular guest of many friends who were members of The Union League, Racquet Club, Rittenhouse Club and The Locust Club back in the 70's and 80s. Back then, the Union League was THE power broker club and was "Men Only" until the mid 80's just like the … Read more
I started this blog long before the concept of Working From Home, Working in Coffeeshops, Co-Working or anything more than the concept of teleworking was the way it was described. There was no WeWork. No SecondHome. I used Regus locations all over the world as I needed to, and still do. Having a UPS store … Read more
My SEO guru friend Steven Ray Marshall shared something with me this morning about Google's search algorithm changing and what it means. It comes down to RELEVANCE…For all the years I wrote about VoIP, one of the reasons VoIPWatch ranked on the first page of Google for so long, which is how I got to … Read more
My SEO guru friend Steven Ray Marshall shared something with me this morning about Google's search algorithm changing and what it means. It comes down to RELEVANCE…For all the years I wrote about VoIP, one of the reasons VoIPWatch ranked on the first page of Google for so long, which is how I got to … Read more
I'm guessing that when the first horseless carriage arrived there was outrage by public officials, but I don't know as I wasn't around back then. I do know that each time something "new" in transportation comes along that sooner or later some group of public officials challenges their right to be on the streets and … Read more
I read, as many did, about the Starbucks caused arrest of two men in Philadelphia. Talk about a PR nightmare…but that's just another example of how Starbucks, like so many other companies today, are losing touch with their customers and their reason for being. Starbucks coffee shops were designed and built so people could linger, … Read more
Much to no one's surprise, Google finally got around to adding VoIP to GoogleVoice. Hmmm…Having been involved in the original Grand Central VoIP was something that was always on the roadmap. There was for a while even an integration I helped foster with Gizmo Project that sort of added it. Back story I needed to … Read more
