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IBM Buys Red Hat - What Took so Long?
The late nineties are when IBM decided to make a big bet on Linux and open-source. It was a smart bet. They saw where the market was going and hopped on early.In 1999, in fact, one year before the dotcom...
GENBAND Enables Carriers to Take On Silicon Valley
In 2010, we told you Genband has become a mini Alcatel-Lucent for all practical purposes and we couldn't help thinking of this, almost a decade later as we sat, discussing the latest happenings at the company. GENBAND is actually not only a...
Shock! IBM Reverses Telecommuting Policy. Here's Why
It's mind-boggling. It's incredible. The biggest news in tech culture is without question the reversal by IBM regarding a telecommuting policy which will affect thousands of people.This is staggering because IBM was actually famous for letting and even pushing people...
650 IBM Blockchain Workers Look to Save us Billions
IBM was early to Linux - one of the first major companies to promote the open-source OS and as a result they had years of growth, riding on its coat tails. Now, blockchain is the hot area for the company....
Surprising 2017 Tech Searches
We spent some time compiling what the community of tech buyers is searching for on TMCnet this year and were a bit surprised. The top result was Orange - the U.K based carrier followed by the largest tech company in China...
How ITEXPO Has Transformed into THE Communications Event
Recently, we have had a great deal of feedback from attendees commenting that ITEXPO in Florida (Yes, Florida, in February – and airfares are literally dirt cheap) has evolved to become THE communications event – for the Americas and beyond....
President Zuckerberg? The Top 28 CEO Choices for U.S. President
Now that Donald Trump has become president, the mold has been broken and lots of other wealthy CEOs will throw their hats in the ring. Billionaire founder of Bloomberg L.P., Michael Bloomberg almost ran for president this time around according...
Will Amazon, Google and Apple Beat you to the Smart Machine Future?
Look no further than the latest news to see how cognitive computing is the future of computing. Chatbots and smart machines will increasingly help us search for things we want, communicate with others and generally make our lives easier. Many...
All About the API: The One Developer Event You Need
OK, I am going to start off by taking back the headline of this post... There isn't one of anything you need. If you have a sports car, you likely also need an SUV so your kids cramped in the...
Splice Software Uses the Power of Analytics to Expand its Product Line
Big data and analytics have had a huge impact on numerous spaces and certainly marketing is one of these areas. Perhaps the first mainstream story, in fact, describing the concept revolved around a retailer knowing a customer was pregnant before...
HP Can't Compete in Public Cloud as Amazon Machine Learning Launches
There are long-term trends in technology we all know are happening. Computers will get more powerful. More devices will be connected. Finally, the cloud will continue to become a more integral part of everything we do. We know these things...
IBM, Mitel, Wearable Tech round out Latest ITEXPO News
Its been an amazing ITEXPO so far - wow. In case you missed some of the happenings from day 1, here are the articles written by our Content Boost team. Enjoy! Also, here is some news from the preconference day.Finally,...
California Lawmakers Plunge Some Transactions into 3rd World
California has come up with a law that hurts the very people it says it is protecting by making it difficult to record call center transactions. Penal code 632 of California law says in-part: (a) Every person who, intentionally and...
IBM Investment Shows Marketing IS Eating Sales
Recently I wrote about the idea that marketing is eating sales, a direct quote from Barry O’Sullivan the new CEO of Altocloud. The concept is that marketing departments are gaining more power within organizations at the expense of sales departments....
IBM: Digital Darwinism May Kill You
In a candid IBM interview, Carl Ford of Crossfire Media spoke with Blair Reeves who said companies should spend less time on advertising and worrying about various channels and instead focus more on putting customers at the center of their...
That Sound You Heard Was The Hard Drive Market Crumbling
Flash memory has already made major inroads in data centers and on Macs and PCs – augmenting hard disks by prefetching and caching data. Flash memory is not perfect but it is getting better as error correction systems have...
IBM Mobility Keynote at ITEXPO
At ITEXPO, Michael Riegal of IBM discussed how mobile is transforming industries – and discusses case studies related to his company’s Smarter Planet Strategy. Watch the video and see how many people have 3, 4 and 5 devices with them...
ITEXPO Austin 2012 Show Guide and More
ITEXPO is taking place next week with a record number of collocatedevents in areas such as cloud computing, video, SIP trunking, M2M, wireless and mobility, white spaces also known as Super WiFi, HTML5, MSP solutions, Latin America Communications, Tech patent protection, cloud computing and cloud communications. This is the most...
Protecode: Eliminating the Pitfalls of Software Development
Software development productivity has evolved tremendously over the decades as the cost of computing has plummeted rapidly while the cost of human capital has accelerated. Of course there are some anomalies in the “human capital” part of the curve as...
TMC San Jose Video Interviews 2012
A few weeks back, my team and I went to Silicon Valley, CA to interview a number of companies in the technology and communications space. Officially the event is called the TMC Roadshow/Executive Editorial Open House. The goal of the...
Houston, We Have Disruption
When many of us think of disruption we think small. The client-server model disrupted the mainframe and mini market. Small hard drives in RAID formation disrupted larger hard drives. Tablets and smartphones disrupted PCs, etc. The digital device disrupted camera...
V.A. Shiva Ayyadurai - Did He Invent E-Mail or Not?
I have to admit that I had never heard of V.A. Shiva Ayyadurai prior to meeting him recently in Boston just prior to the video interview below. But he and his PR firm told me he had invented e-mail –...
Jobs, Ritchie & Galvin Dead but not Forgotten
As TMC's Peter Bernstein says, the rule of threes seems to be in effect. First we lost Steve Jobs who transformed the music, movie, computer and mobile markets and next we lost C programming language and UNIX OS creator Dennis...
Electronic Health Records Only as Strong as Weakest Link
It is becoming commonplace to find that organizations of virtually all sizes are getting hacked and their data compromised. Sony and the CIA are just some of the latest we have heard of.Let's be clear, these are some very high-profile...
Avaya Touts People-First Model
This week at IAUG - the Avaya user group event in Las Vegas the company launched a new program called Ace Your Apps with the goal of making communications more people centric while allowing corporations to integrated their UC solutions...
