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TMC Moves to New Headquarters Next Month
I just got back from taking a tour of final construction at the new TMC headquarters we will be moving to in February. It has been an exhilarating experience to have been in the communications and tech markets these...
Asterisk Has Huge Presence at ITEXPO East 2010
A major area of communications growth is taking place in the open-source market and a tough economy only throws more fuel on an already raging open-source communications fire.Asterisk is the major player in the space and the company behind...
ITEXPO East 2010 Update and Show Guide
The ITEXPO team sent out an email today detailing a small subset of attendees already registered for the show. Here is a link to the document and we are just about done with the show guide (link updated Jan 8,...
SIP Trunking Schedule ITEXPO East 2009
With all the excitement in the SIP Trunking space I wanted to make sure to keep my readers up to date with the latest schedule for the SIP Trunking event at ITEXPO 2 weeks from now in Miami. Here you...
Google, Apple set for Death Match
Like a Godzilla movie with award-winning special effects, this battle will open up new opportunities for players in the communications market deep into the decade. Apple recently announced it has had over three billion applications downloaded on the iPhone and...
Mitel's IPO and the Future of Communications this Decade
2009 was a momentous year for Nortel - finally imploding under a combination of extreme debt, acquisition challenges, Asian competition and the remnants of a financial scandal from years past. Recently I analyzed the acquisition of Nortel's enterprise unit by...
Discounts for Communications and Technology Events at ITEXPO
To all my readers, Happy New Year. Please feel free to take advantage of these special conference & expo rates (check out these low travel rates as well) as my gift to you. I hope to see you at the...
US Schools Must Improve
US high school students rank a disastrously low 25 out of 30 industrialized nations in math. I have written before about how bad our school system is and how a country like Iran - where my family is from and...
ITEXPO East 2010 Hotel Block 131% Sold Out
ITEXPO hotel rooms continue to go quickly. 11 days ago I mentioned that the hotel room block at the Loews was sold out at 106% and you needed to reserve a room quickly to get the low rate ITEXPO had...
Will Avaya's Nortel Acquisition be a Success?
Avaya recently completed its acquisition of Nortel's assets and the most important question in the enterprise communications space for 2010 is what happens next. Avaya and Nortel were two of the industry's most dominant players and also fiercely competitive -...
ITEXPO East 2010 Hotel Rooms Exceed Estimates
Dear readers, as you likely know, ITEXPO and the numerous collocated events with this event have been generating more and more attendance at a time when many shows have seen traffic drop precipitously. What will ITEXPO in Miami look like...
Predator Video Intercepted by Afghan Insurgents
You know those state of the art airplanes - the unmanned drones the US has flying in Afghanistan, well these Predator Drones at a cost of over $4 million apiece send video of their targets in an unencrypted format allowing...
1-800-Free-411 Offers Free International Calls
I have used 1-800-free-411 in the past and find it to be a useful service. The way it works - you listen to ads and get free directory assistance. Now the company allows free international phone calls. In order to...
Apple Rumored to Buy VoIP Player iCall
Back in December 2004 I suggested in my Publisher's Outlook column of Internet Telephony Magazine that Apple should get into the VoIP market and I even coined a product name - the VoIPOD. Here is the entire paragraph from the...
The History of the Internet and Net Neutrality
If you are looking for a single article which will illuminate the evolution of the Internet, the challenges regulators had when policing phone companies, the competition between cable and phone companies and net neutrality, look no further than this article...
Debate Over In-Flight Calling Continues
The debate about using phones on flights has continued for a few years and currently through a mix of regulations and technology firewalls, passengers are prohibited from talking while in-flight. The USA Today reports that a coalition of manufacturers, carriers...
Digium's UK Connection - Asterisk Conference Sells out Twice
Digium, the Asterisk Company announced they recently inked a deal with Dorset, UK ITSP VoIP Unlimited to connect Digium's Asterisk-powered Switchvox platform with the carrier's SIP trunking solutions. Bill Miller, vice president of product management for Digium, commented: "We chose...
Fring Allows One-Way iPhone Video
Fring Allows One-Way iPhone Video Fring really impressed me with the new update to their iPhone application which allows Skype video calls to be transmitted to the iPhone screen. They could have potentially made the application work as a 2-way...
Interop New York 2009 Videos
I got back from Interop New York 2009 last night and was pretty excited to conduct a number of video interviews in the new TMC Newsroom set. One of the videos I was particularly excited to conduct was with Dr....
ITEXPO East 2010 Miami Update
I just came across this web page with some important details on ITEXPO. I mentioned the keynoters in a recent post and I still think they are one of the best combinations of thought leaders in our space. Google Voice,...
Sagem-Interstar Adds Fax Support to Microsoft Exchange 2010
There has been a premature rush to declare fax dead and the reality is fax is alive and while it is declining, it is still a strong business for companies helping the transition from fax to fax over IP and...
Can The Concept of Open be Governed?
Warning - a bit of self-promotion ahead and a discount - Guest Blog From Carl Ford ---Dear Reader, Welcome to the next generation of regulation- the one that will be focused on the Wireless device in your hands! The...
HP Buys 3Com
HP is acquiring 3Com for $2.7 billion and there are a number of reasons for this move. First of all, it is obvious the tech market is hot and Cisco and other companies are optimistic about the future as evidenced...
More on the Skype Soap Opera
If you are interested in the Skype/Joost/eBay soap opera of recent months, be sure to check out this article from Brad Reese which shows a chain of emails between Mike Volpi and a number of other execs involved in the...
Skype Lawsuit Settled, Skype/Ning Integration Has Huge Potential
Skype is certainly a major symbol for the IP communications market and although it plays in a niche in the market - consumer VoIP/Video, it is now a household name and having it entangled in legal limbo does it or...
