I recently wrote about Nortels outlook on the communications space and how they mentioned the US is falling behind in both technology and in the move towards VoIP. To further elaborate on my column titled Nortel Networks' Bright Future in Internet Telephony Magazine, there is a great article in the Wall Street Journal titled China Expands Phone Service Via The Internet (paid subscription required. There seems to be no easy way to link to the article. You need to do a search on past articles at http://www.wsj.com) discussing Chinas jump to VoIP as well as an article in the New York Times titled Losing Our Edge?
It was technology that allowed us to overcome the tremendous outflows of manufacturing jobs over the past decades. We have without a doubt been the worlds technology powerhouse. The question becomes, what happens in the future? Can we continue to be the place that the world looks to for innovation?
We may still have the entrepreneurial lead in terms of our culture as well as a market where many people with good ideas can get access to capital. These are areas which we do still excel in. So the future may not be as murky as some may suggest. Still, we need to do everything we can to encourage better education of future generations in science and engineering if we want to continue our lead.
If there is one thing we have learned it is, you cant take anything for granted in life Success, technological superiority, standard of living, nothing. Lets hope that our politicians realize what is at stake and make sure to improve our educational system quickly before the technology lead momentum tilts too heavily towards other countries.
April 2004 Archives
I recently wrote about Nortels outlook on the communications space and how they mentioned the US is falling behind in both technology and in the move towards VoIP. To further elaborate on my column titled Nortel Networks' Bright Future in Internet Telephony Magazine, there is a great article in the Wall Street Journal titled China Expands Phone Service Via The Internet (paid subscription required. There seems to be no easy way to link to the article. You need to do a search on past articles at http://www.wsj.com) discussing Chinas jump to VoIP as well as an article in the New York Times titled Losing Our Edge?
It was technology that allowed us to overcome the tremendous outflows of manufacturing jobs over the past decades. We have without a doubt been the worlds technology powerhouse. The question becomes, what happens in the future? Can we continue to be the place that the world looks to for innovation?
We may still have the entrepreneurial lead in terms of our culture as well as a market where many people with good ideas can get access to capital. These are areas which we do still excel in. So the future may not be as murky as some may suggest. Still, we need to do everything we can to encourage better education of future generations in science and engineering if we want to continue our lead.
If there is one thing we have learned it is, you cant take anything for granted in life Success, technological superiority, standard of living, nothing. Lets hope that our politicians realize what is at stake and make sure to improve our educational system quickly before the technology lead momentum tilts too heavily towards other countries.
For those of you that rely on Google Adwords for advertising or Adsense to generate revenue from your website, you will probably be unhappy to learn that the ad servicing mechanism on Google was down starting sometime after 1:00 PM today. It goes to show you how important Google has become to many companies as millions of users are not seeing ads and subsequently there are many clicks and subsequent purchases that arent taking place. What is most amazing is that ads dont appear on many of their partner sites or the search home page. Whether this is a virus or a denial of service attack or just a programming error remains to be seen.
For those of you that rely on Google Adwords for advertising or Adsense to generate revenue from your website, you will probably be unhappy to learn that the ad servicing mechanism on Google was down starting sometime after 1:00 PM today. It goes to show you how important Google has become to many companies as millions of users are not seeing ads and subsequently there are many clicks and subsequent purchases that arent taking place. What is most amazing is that ads dont appear on many of their partner sites or the search home page. Whether this is a virus or a denial of service attack or just a programming error remains to be seen.
For those of you that rely on Google Adwords for advertising or Adsense to generate revenue from your website, you will probably be unhappy to learn that the ad servicing mechanism on Google was down starting sometime after 1:00 PM today. It goes to show you how important Google has become to many companies as millions of users are not seeing ads and subsequently there are many clicks and subsequent purchases that arent taking place. What is most amazing is that ads dont appear on many of their partner sites or the search home page. Whether this is a virus or a denial of service attack or just a programming error remains to be seen.
Boy is this a perfect BLOG topic if I ever found one
Market researchers send me more tidbits of info than I know what to do with. Often this stuff is really useful and costs thousands of dollars if you wanted to research it yourself. The Radicati Group sent me a greatest hits of their latest research. Here it is with some editorializing from yours truly. Enjoy.
INSTANT MESSAGING
Wireless IM traffic will comprise 10% of all IM traffic by year-end 2004. This is higher than I would have expected but I would assume lots of young consumers would be the driving force her
By 2008, IM users will get an average of 25 IM spam (SPIM) messages a day. No Surprise 31% of corporations that have not deployed instant messaging have not done so due to security concerns, followed by 27% who are skeptical of IMs added value. Interestingly, you cant (unless you put a great deal of effort into it) stop IM in the enterprise. We install a client that only allows IM with other TMC team members. Still, people find ways around the policy. You are better off giving everyone access. It does make us more productive. Even personal issues are resolved more quickly with IM which helps get your workers off the phone with their spouses and back to work.
EMAIL & SPAM
The number of corporate mailboxes will grow by an average of 15% from 479 million mailboxes in 2004 to over 860 million in 2008. No Surprise
47% of corporations that deploy anti-spam solutions dislike not having the ability for end users to access quarantined files. Makes sense, this kills MIS productivity and they are pretty well taxed as it is since many of them have been let go.
Corporate Lotus Domino Mailboxes only constitute 25.7% of worldwide corporate mailboxes, compared to Microsoft Exchange corporate mailboxes with 30.1%. I would have guessed Lotus is around 12% max and Exchange around 75%. What is everyone else using, Yahoo?
European email users will grow from being 31% of worldwide email users in 2004 to 39% of worldwide email users in 2008. Yawn. Who cares. What happens in China will likely dwarf Europe. Microsoft Outlook Web Access (OWA) constitutes 72.8 % of corporate Webmail clients in Europe, followed by Lotus iNotes with 22.4%. ARCHIVING The email archiving market will grow from $277 billion at year-end 2004 to $2,489 billion in 2008. Someone told me once not to write anything down that you wouldnt want published in a newspaper. With e-mail archiving growing this quickly we should all remember this tidbit.
34% of corporations that have deployed an email archiving solution find it hard to manage and customize. No Comment
INSTANT MESSAGING
Wireless IM traffic will comprise 10% of all IM traffic by year-end 2004. This is higher than I would have expected but I would assume lots of young consumers would be the driving force her
By 2008, IM users will get an average of 25 IM spam (SPIM) messages a day. No Surprise 31% of corporations that have not deployed instant messaging have not done so due to security concerns, followed by 27% who are skeptical of IMs added value. Interestingly, you cant (unless you put a great deal of effort into it) stop IM in the enterprise. We install a client that only allows IM with other TMC team members. Still, people find ways around the policy. You are better off giving everyone access. It does make us more productive. Even personal issues are resolved more quickly with IM which helps get your workers off the phone with their spouses and back to work.
EMAIL & SPAM
The number of corporate mailboxes will grow by an average of 15% from 479 million mailboxes in 2004 to over 860 million in 2008. No Surprise
47% of corporations that deploy anti-spam solutions dislike not having the ability for end users to access quarantined files. Makes sense, this kills MIS productivity and they are pretty well taxed as it is since many of them have been let go.
Corporate Lotus Domino Mailboxes only constitute 25.7% of worldwide corporate mailboxes, compared to Microsoft Exchange corporate mailboxes with 30.1%. I would have guessed Lotus is around 12% max and Exchange around 75%. What is everyone else using, Yahoo?
European email users will grow from being 31% of worldwide email users in 2004 to 39% of worldwide email users in 2008. Yawn. Who cares. What happens in China will likely dwarf Europe. Microsoft Outlook Web Access (OWA) constitutes 72.8 % of corporate Webmail clients in Europe, followed by Lotus iNotes with 22.4%. ARCHIVING The email archiving market will grow from $277 billion at year-end 2004 to $2,489 billion in 2008. Someone told me once not to write anything down that you wouldnt want published in a newspaper. With e-mail archiving growing this quickly we should all remember this tidbit.
34% of corporations that have deployed an email archiving solution find it hard to manage and customize. No Comment
Boy is this a perfect BLOG topic if I ever found one
Market researchers send me more tidbits of info than I know what to do with. Often this stuff is really useful and costs thousands of dollars if you wanted to research it yourself. The Radicati Group sent me a greatest hits of their latest research. Here it is with some editorializing from yours truly. Enjoy.
INSTANT MESSAGING
Wireless IM traffic will comprise 10% of all IM traffic by year-end 2004. This is higher than I would have expected but I would assume lots of young consumers would be the driving force her
By 2008, IM users will get an average of 25 IM spam (SPIM) messages a day. No Surprise 31% of corporations that have not deployed instant messaging have not done so due to security concerns, followed by 27% who are skeptical of IMs added value. Interestingly, you cant (unless you put a great deal of effort into it) stop IM in the enterprise. We install a client that only allows IM with other TMC team members. Still, people find ways around the policy. You are better off giving everyone access. It does make us more productive. Even personal issues are resolved more quickly with IM which helps get your workers off the phone with their spouses and back to work.
EMAIL & SPAM
The number of corporate mailboxes will grow by an average of 15% from 479 million mailboxes in 2004 to over 860 million in 2008. No Surprise
47% of corporations that deploy anti-spam solutions dislike not having the ability for end users to access quarantined files. Makes sense, this kills MIS productivity and they are pretty well taxed as it is since many of them have been let go.
Corporate Lotus Domino Mailboxes only constitute 25.7% of worldwide corporate mailboxes, compared to Microsoft Exchange corporate mailboxes with 30.1%. I would have guessed Lotus is around 12% max and Exchange around 75%. What is everyone else using, Yahoo?
European email users will grow from being 31% of worldwide email users in 2004 to 39% of worldwide email users in 2008. Yawn. Who cares. What happens in China will likely dwarf Europe. Microsoft Outlook Web Access (OWA) constitutes 72.8 % of corporate Webmail clients in Europe, followed by Lotus iNotes with 22.4%. ARCHIVING The email archiving market will grow from $277 billion at year-end 2004 to $2,489 billion in 2008. Someone told me once not to write anything down that you wouldnt want published in a newspaper. With e-mail archiving growing this quickly we should all remember this tidbit.
34% of corporations that have deployed an email archiving solution find it hard to manage and customize. No Comment
INSTANT MESSAGING
Wireless IM traffic will comprise 10% of all IM traffic by year-end 2004. This is higher than I would have expected but I would assume lots of young consumers would be the driving force her
By 2008, IM users will get an average of 25 IM spam (SPIM) messages a day. No Surprise 31% of corporations that have not deployed instant messaging have not done so due to security concerns, followed by 27% who are skeptical of IMs added value. Interestingly, you cant (unless you put a great deal of effort into it) stop IM in the enterprise. We install a client that only allows IM with other TMC team members. Still, people find ways around the policy. You are better off giving everyone access. It does make us more productive. Even personal issues are resolved more quickly with IM which helps get your workers off the phone with their spouses and back to work.
EMAIL & SPAM
The number of corporate mailboxes will grow by an average of 15% from 479 million mailboxes in 2004 to over 860 million in 2008. No Surprise
47% of corporations that deploy anti-spam solutions dislike not having the ability for end users to access quarantined files. Makes sense, this kills MIS productivity and they are pretty well taxed as it is since many of them have been let go.
Corporate Lotus Domino Mailboxes only constitute 25.7% of worldwide corporate mailboxes, compared to Microsoft Exchange corporate mailboxes with 30.1%. I would have guessed Lotus is around 12% max and Exchange around 75%. What is everyone else using, Yahoo?
European email users will grow from being 31% of worldwide email users in 2004 to 39% of worldwide email users in 2008. Yawn. Who cares. What happens in China will likely dwarf Europe. Microsoft Outlook Web Access (OWA) constitutes 72.8 % of corporate Webmail clients in Europe, followed by Lotus iNotes with 22.4%. ARCHIVING The email archiving market will grow from $277 billion at year-end 2004 to $2,489 billion in 2008. Someone told me once not to write anything down that you wouldnt want published in a newspaper. With e-mail archiving growing this quickly we should all remember this tidbit.
34% of corporations that have deployed an email archiving solution find it hard to manage and customize. No Comment
A good friend of mine John Dabnor alerted me to this new company Teleflip that allows easy sending of SMS messages to any cell phone.
Just send an e-mail to number@teleflip.com, (i.e. 813xxxxxxx@teleflip.com) and it will be delivered. You dont need to know the service provider.
There may be some issues related to LNP or local number portability meaning that if a cell phone ports from one provider to another it may take some time (Their FAQ says a few months) until their database is updated.
I havent tested the service extensively but I did send I some messages to some invalid cell numbers and they bounced back which is good to know. I was able to get a message through to a T-Mobile phone.
The service is free. Let me know what you think.
A good friend of mine John Dabnor alerted me to this new company Teleflip that allows easy sending of SMS messages to any cell phone.
Just send an e-mail to number@teleflip.com, (i.e. 813xxxxxxx@teleflip.com) and it will be delivered. You dont need to know the service provider.
There may be some issues related to LNP or local number portability meaning that if a cell phone ports from one provider to another it may take some time (Their FAQ says a few months) until their database is updated.
I havent tested the service extensively but I did send I some messages to some invalid cell numbers and they bounced back which is good to know. I was able to get a message through to a T-Mobile phone.
The service is free. Let me know what you think.
Rich Tehrani is a VoIP industry expert, visionary, author and columnist. He founded the first magazine focused on VoIP in 1998 and, in his role as president of Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC), is the owner of the registered trademark for the term Internet Telephony.
Rich, currently CEO, has led TMC in many capacities since 1982. Rich plays a pivotal role in positioning TMC as the only publishing and trade show company focusing exclusively on the rapidly growing voice/data convergence and computer telephony integration. He continues to be a driving force in the creation and implementation of pioneering publications and events.
Rich Tehrani is a computer engineer who graduated from the University Of Connecticut with a hardware/software Bachelor of Science degree.
Rich Has Been The VoIP Industry's Voice Since 1998
Rich is a Voice over Internet Protocol industry expert, visionary and champion of the industry. One might say that Rich is an evangelist for VoIP. In 1997, when VoIP was in its infancy, pundits declared that VoIP will never reach the point where businesses and consumers would adopt the technology. Staying true to his vision, Rich pioneered ahead and launched INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine which has remained the VoIP authority since 1998. Rich's columns have appeared in each and every issue of INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine since the first issue was published in 1998.
The Chairman of the Industry's Leading Trade Show
Rich is also the founder and chairman of INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO, THE leading conference focused on VoIP since its launch in 1999. Widely popular, INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO was the first end-user event established in the industry. As chairman of INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO, Rich has keynoted each of the ten conferences held since the first show in October, 1999. Rich has also given speeches at numerous other VoIP industry events.
Founder of the Industry's Only In-House Testing Lab - TMC Labs
Rich broke new ground when he founded TMC Labs in 1997. TMC Labs was the first to provide an unbiased review of CRM, contact center and VoIP products. Staffed by objective engineers, TMC Labs has become the premier testing facility in the industry.
Founder of the Leading Telecommunications Web Portal
Rich Tehrani founded TMCnet.com, the most popular communications Web site in the world as ranked by Alexa.com. TMCnet.com ranks, on average, as 2,439 among all the sites in the world and has been ranked in the top 2,888 sites in the world on particular days in 2005. Rich is also the author of a widely read and popular blog covering VoIP and other communications technologies. Author of the First IP Telephony Dictionary
A true visionary in the burgeoning field of VoIP, Rich authored "Tehrani's IP Telephony Dictionary." The first of its kind, this dictionary is a 300+ page guide to over 10,000 VoIP terms, acronyms, products and services. First published in 2002, Tehrani's IP Telephony Dictionary is now in its second edition.
In the Media
Rich has been interviewed and quoted by many major media including The Economist, The Boston Globe, Newsweek, WABC Radio New York, Business Week, USA Today and The LA Times.
Here is a comment from Steve Loudermilk of VoIP giant Lucent Technologies regarding Rich's expertise:
"Rich Tehrani is one of the most knowledgeable experts in the IP telephony industry. Rich's technical acumen, knowledge of the industry and vision about the future of IP telephony is unparalleled in the media. He also possesses the ability to insightfully look at up-and-coming trends in the market and provide expert commentary and analysis."
Rich Tehrani Articles, Columns and Speaking Engagements The Economist "Telecoms and the Internet" Sept. 15, 2005
LA Times "VOIP Firms Must Offer 911 Access" May 20, 2005
Wired News "VOIP in Public-Safety Showdown" May 18, 2005
BtoB Online "Publishers launch niche VoIP sites" March 22, 2005
Phone+ "Industry Reacts to Martin as FCC Head" March 17, 2005
The Economist "Hearing Voices" Oct 28th, 2004 (FREE Registration Required)
The Miami Herald "Web phones are talk of town" Mar. 15, 2005 (FREE Registration Required)
The Boston Globe "Hybrid phones hold promise of cellular, VoIP" March 7, 2005
The Boston Globe "Plugging into the future" March 7, 2005
The Miami Herald "Tangled web lines" Feb. 25, 2005 (FREE Registration Required)
New York Observer.com "Voice over Internet has people talking" Jan. 30, 2005
The L.A. Times "FCC Finds Itself Up to Its Neck in Hot Issues" Jan. 24, 2005 (FREE Registration Required)
The Star-Ledger "Burning Questions" Jan. 26, 2005
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This is my first BLOG entry. People have asked me for years why I dont start one. Frankly I didnt have the time. I now realize that there is so much information that I come across that is truly useful and I dont always have time to write an article. In many cases the ideas dont require an entire article anyway.
Blogging seems to make a lot of sense as an actual time saver for me. Thanks for reading and I hope all my time and effort helps (or at least entertains) you on many levels.
Sincerely,
Rich
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