You may have heard one of the absolute brightest spots in the tech space is the machine to machine or M2M market where analysts believe sales will total $18 billion in the next five years as device totals surge from...
It is a certainty inevitable that home automation becomes more of a reality and that disparate product categories will converge. Already tablet computers are being tasked with becoming part of the integrated entertainment of millions of consumers who appreciate being...
Hi loyal readers... I have some great news for ITEXPO West 2010 in Los Angeles - the first show hotel room block at The Westin Bonaventure Hotel & Suites is sold out. Paid registrations are also tracking 4 times ahead...
Today is the last day to save hundreds or thousands on registration We have been seeing an incredible stream of registrations for ITEXPO and related events and as is always the case, my team has done its absolute best to...
I am fortunate that I get to speak reporters about my company from time to time and whenever I do I always worry until the article comes out. Reporters are busy (speaking from experience) and they don't always get all...
In Google's quest to become greener the company recently invested $38.8 million in North Dakota wind farms and the company is looking to make this a profitable business. You might expect the company to be using wind to power its...
Everyone probably knows I have been a huge proponent of the voice/VoIP peering space for the last five years. A few of the first people get me enthused about the space were Shrihari Pandit of Stealth Communications and Hunter Newby...
One certainty in the world is that feature wars often get fought in the battle to win the most customers. If you don't beleive me, think of how few features your car had 15 years ago compared to today. In...
Did you ever wonder how wireless carriers increase capacity in specific areas where large crowds gather? Well, one way is they can bring out cell (towers) on wheels or COWs and use them to augment the cell towers in the...
I am on the train now and heading down to the Satellite 2010 expo in Washington, DC. I have wall-to-wall meetings for a few days and will do my best to keep you posted on the latest in the satellite...
I recently came across these photos from Dan York which are on his Disruptive Telephony blog. Check out the quality of his Nikon D90 DSLR in these sample shots below....
Last week, Doug Mohney had the big scoop that Supercomm will be cancelled - he blogged it as a rumor which was subsequently confirmed by the TIA and USTelecom today. As a show organizer myself I get a lot of...
Livecage came to ITEXPO East 2010 last week in Miami and the colocated Smart Grid Summit and recorded a number of video interviews which are posted here. I hope you find them useful. Here are some of the people who...
Verizon's Brian Higgins spoke this morning about how Verizon Wireless is working with developers to open up their company's network and even invest in new product ideas to collectively try to get more innovative products into the marketplace. ...
Here in Miami at ITEXPO in the Miami Beach Convention Center, David explained how his company got started and how HD voice became a factor in what he calls the "building of the best conferencing bridge on the planet." ...
I had a chance to have a brief interview with Chris Whiteley, Director of Business Development at XG Technologies. He gave me an indication of what the company is up to and where their future lies. One point of interest...
The SIP Forum will be heavily involved in ITEXPO and related events this week in the Miami Convention Center. SIP is a crucial puzzle piece in communications and technology, used for such things as trunking and presence and you should...
Skype is now the largest provider of cross border communications in the world, by far according to a new report from TeleGeography. According to the research company, the rate of international calling has been growing at a steady compounded rate...
I am here at the Loews -- the show hotel at ITEXPO East 2010 in Miami and when I checked in I got a branded key from Digium/Asterisk to remind me to stop by the open-source communications leader's booth later...
The press list for this week's ITEXPO in Miami is one of the best we have ever had in terms of quality and quantity and I wanted to take a moment and welcome bloggers, analysts and media to the event.I...
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...
One of the biggest names and of course controversial keynoters TMC has ever had has to be Al Gore who spoke at TMC's Communications Solutions show back in 2001. Just before Vice President Gore took the stage, Beatriz Infante, CEO...
Next week's ITEXPO, Jan 20-22nd in Miami promises to be one of the best shows in the communications and technology spaces. When you consider all the knowledge you can absorb at the show with collocated events which portend the future...
Today we sent out a confirmation and update regarding next week's ITEXPO and I wanted to make sure my readers were aware of many of the happenings at the show. One of the more interesting questions I get in passing...
Jamie Siminoff is someone I have great admiration for... He launched a company called SimulScribe which later became PhoneTag and what it did was transcribe your voicemails and send them via email. As far as I am concerned voicemail is...