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MicroThoughts on MicroBlogging

I signed up for a Twitter account over a year ago and it can be found at www.twitter.com/rtehrani. The question is do I need to Twitter at all when I have a blog? It seems in fact I haven't used...

Posted on October 7, 2008 10:22 AM

What Cisco Was Doing During ITEXPO

Cisco had a booth at ITEXPO this past week but apparently another part of the company was busy making an acquisition in the communications space at the exact same time. The company just picked up Jabber -- a supercharged presence...

Posted on September 21, 2008 9:20 PM

Mossberg on iPhone Apps

Walt Mossberg does a pretty good job of explaining why you might want to use the latest 3G iPhone and its applications in this video. He outlines 10 applications which you may be interested in from one that lets...

Posted on July 14, 2008 2:04 PM

Hyperconnectivity, Live and in Person

You can't escape the reality that interconnectivity between humans will increase at a more rapid pace as time goes on. The myriad ways in which we connect with one another, e-mail, social networks, blogging, IM, SMS, telephone, voicemail and others...

Posted on June 11, 2008 5:30 PM

UMAThought Leader Steve Shaw on TMCnet

Few people know more about UMA than Steve Shaw... He really lives and breathes this market. This is why I am thrilled Steve will be writing for TMCnet with a special focus on unwired mobile access or UMA. Here is...

Posted on May 9, 2008 12:04 PM

Virgin America Review

As a bonus to my thoughts, opinion and analysis of the communications and technology sectors, today I bring you something a little bit different. After all, who wants to write about these subjects when your laptop is crammed like an...

Posted on April 22, 2008 7:34 PM

Sending out an SMS

It is great to see the US Government embracing technology. Recently the FCC said that by 2010 we should have a nationwide alert system capable of delivering timely warnings vis SMS in the event of disaster. Participation in this broadcast...

Posted on April 11, 2008 9:54 AM

Avaya's Huge Unified Communications Push

Avaya has certainly made unified communications history today with a suite of announcements that will certainly rattle the competitive landscape. UC will never be the same in my opinion. The New Jersey-based company's biggest news had to do with affordable...

Posted on March 16, 2008 10:47 PM

IBM's Big Unified Communications News

Recently I spent a good number of hours at the sprawling Somers, NY campus of IBM where the company announced to the media their intention to spend a billion dollars in unified communications development over the next three years. IBM...

Posted on March 16, 2008 5:53 PM

Presence vs. Stalkers

Presence is a really great technology because it keeps people from playing phone tag – among other things. It is an absolute productivity accelerator as it allows people to know what people are up to 24x7. But therein lies the...

Posted on October 21, 2007 7:04 PM

CommuniGate Pronto Goes Air

I have been using the latest version of CommuniGate System’s Pronto which works on Adobe’s Flash and Air technology. I think it is a great product. Adobe’s Air Platform was formerly called Apollo and provides a much richer interface than...

Posted on October 1, 2007 2:40 PM

Parlano

Bob Serr, Parlano CTO, took some time to give me this exclusive interview. In it, he gave some fascinating insight on the impact of industry giants like Google and Microsoft on the telecom world, and also let me know why...

Posted on August 21, 2007 3:29 AM

What We Learned From the Skype Outage

As organizations move to VoIP and other forms of IP communications it is imperative they realize the world of IP is far different from the PSTN and circuit-switched networks of yesterday. While Internet Protocol is the protocol of the Internet...

Posted on August 20, 2007 4:26 PM

Covergence

Ken Kuenzel, Founder, VP Engineering and CTO for Covergence recently chatted with me about the impact of wireless technology, and the way in which SIP has changed communications, among other topics.   Offering its customers “the edge in SIP”,...

Posted on August 16, 2007 6:11 PM

Skype Outage

Skype is out and the blogosphere is abuzz. I learned about the outage from TMCnet’s Tom Keating and now it seems both Andy Abramson and Irwin Lazar have written about the outage as well.   I am actually surprised this...

Posted on August 16, 2007 11:22 AM

Fring on Windows Mobile

Tom Keating has the scoop on Fring coming to a Windows Mobile device near you. Why should you care? Well because Fring could help integrate your disparate communications clients into a single unified application. I am looking forward to trying...

Posted on June 19, 2007 12:00 PM

Stop IMing Me

Finding the Holy Grail of Unified Communications   We all have our peculiar ways of working and mine is e-mail centric. It is precisely this love of e-mail that enables me to really find a product like SpinmyVmail useful...

Posted on April 10, 2007 8:18 AM

IBM VoIP

IBM is not a stranger to VoIP but I thought this news about IBM seriously embracing video and VoIP was worth reading. Oh, and by the way, there is a Linux hook as well. ...

Posted on August 15, 2006 12:15 PM