Business disruption through technologies they never saw coming is fascinating to me. I have been fortunate enough to be in the technology and communications spaces at a time when the pace of change has been breathtaking. Consider for example in...
Wikipedia defines arbitrage as the practice of taking advantage of a price difference between two or more markets and I’m amazed at how it’s helped the world of tech grow through the decades. Now before I continue I should point...
If you are working with a phone system maker who isn’t innovating rapidly, beware - their days could be numbered. I hate to be sensational but you have to wonder, with real-time video & voice communications embedded into social networks...
I am off to San Jose and in case you are looking for some content to catch up on while I am offline I posted some links for you below: Robert Hashemian opines on BP's financial future. I disagree about...
If you were in telecom in the mid-nineties you remember one of the large players in the space was NACT a company playing in the prepaid and international callback markets. Prior to VoIP these markets were the preferred methods of...
It has been a while since I met with executives from Odin Telesystems but it all came back to me when I sat down a week ago with companyPresident & CEO Hanz Johansson to discuss his company's DSP resource solutions...
For telecom veterans who were active in the communications space in the nineties you remember the excitement the industry enjoyed when Microsoft and Novell entered the telecom markets with TAPI and TSAPI protocols to interconnect communications systems with computers. The...
We are in the midst of a violent transformation of our communications networks which involves an immense amount of control being wrestled away from carriers and given to developers and end-users. Visit the iTunes App store or check out what...
For over a decade TMC has covered AVST and their wonderful unified messaging solutions - which in the nineties were the talk of the industry. But as is sometimes the case, when the industry talks about the next big thing,...
A simple test to determine who is a true telecom veteran is to ask them simply have you heard of Harry Newton. Harry was the ultimate character and the most polarizing figure I knew in telecom. The man was responsible...
In the past few years there has been tremendous interest paid to VoIP and the underlying internet protocol which allows IP communications to take place. For those people who started to pay attention to the communications space in the last...
For those of you who were in telecom back in the day, you may recall that the ComputerTelephony show in Los Angeles, CA had a press event where they got together with exhibitors to give away free voicemail to...
Amazing as it may sound the editor of ComputerTelephony Magazine was trying to purchase Dialogic from Intel and was unsuccessful. Here is the story:-----There is only one reason for this abysmal performance. Intel has awful management. It remains the...
Some years back -- I cant recall -- perhaps it was 1998 or 99, I am not sure exactly when -- I got a call from Joe Jackson at Alliance Systems who thought Rich Zippy Grigonis would be a good...