When In Roam

Grind TV has a nice summary about the Roam Co-working and co-living operation that currently have three properties up and running in Madrid, Miami and Bali. The company, which is promising more locations in the near future, has raised over $3 million dollars to fuel property acquisition and growth around the globe.  Far more than … Read more

Just How Many Lines Does Broadsoft Really Have?

Broadsoft, in an announcement today, that's a pre-cursor to their annual "Connections Conference," highlighted the fact that they now have 41 percent of the Unified Communications market running over their cloud platform, trumpeting the fact that this number, which totals 15 million lines, represents more customers than Cisco or RingCentral have. This means, if one … Read more

Why Are We Still Paying for Voicemail?

A few years ago the New York Times published a story about Voicemail usage being on the decline. If the wrote that same story today, my guess is that they would find that on the decline was an understatement. It's more than likely in free fall. Basically, most of the people I know text before … Read more

Wi-Fi Coming to More Flights In Europe

Business Travel New is reporting that IAG, the group that owns and operates British Air, Aer Lingus, Iberia and Vueling will start to roll out Wi-Fi on Airbus 321s and 320 starting in 2017. My travel the last few years in Europe has been rather frequent, and I've always been amazed at the lack of … Read more

The Anytime Worker is Working Anywhere

Dialpad had Altimeter Group's Brian Solis author a report on the "Anytime Worker" who is "working anywhere" they can these days. With coworking spots the rage all over the world, and more remote working going on all the time, the report is rather timely.  Sign up here to get your copy…and read away…Anywhere you want … Read more

James Tagg Leaves Truphone

After over 15 years, and ten years since it's formal launch on Nokia N series phones, founder James Tagg has left Truphone reports Telecompaper.   The departure, long in the planning, will allow the inventive founder to focus on new technologies. Tagg, who also invented the video touchscreen, came up with the idea of Truphone due … Read more

Is 2016 A Vintage of the Century In France

I am hearing first hand reports on the high quality of the 2016 harvest in France from every corner of the country. Most recently, oenologue and wine consultant Phillipe Cambie share this on Facebook.  "2016 to châteauneuf du Pape, can we talk about vintage of the century? According to the former the vintage looks like 1990!!! … Read more

The Adras Duo

i was delighted to open these two Spanish wines and really enjoyed them at the bar at Akasha with the GM, Mary and somm, Lisa. Both were as impressed with the duo, as I was, and candidly these were tremendous examples of wines that I could drink all the time.   The 2013 Adras Godello … Read more