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Keep It Confidential

 Ouch -- when you forward confidential information from your employer to a competitor, you may be indicted. This is what happened in this case and it goes to show that you should be smart, play by the rules and always...

Posted on July 1, 2008 8:44 PM

Allied Security Trust -- Let The Patent Wars Begin

You may remember a while back I wrote about Vocaltec selling some of its patents to what appears to be a firm that will become a patent troll. This scenario is becoming more and more common... Companies are now launching...

Posted on June 30, 2008 6:13 AM

What the HP/EDS Deal Means

When you look around the tech market you see factors which suck the profit out of every nook and cranny. In hardware there is a trend towards standards-based hardware which is not slowing down. As this trend continues, prices shrink...

Posted on May 13, 2008 8:06 AM

NEC, Microsoft, HP Labs and Comcast News

I was traveling yesterday and I didn't get a chance to communicate with my blog readers in the detail I would normally like to give. This morning I decided to share all the news that caught my eye from last...

Posted on March 7, 2008 8:35 AM

Telecommuting Slowdown

While I have been espousing telecommuting and moreover discussing frequently how IP communications enables companies to hire remote workers without losing productivity... Even I have been a bit surprised that some companies have such a large number of at home...

Posted on February 28, 2008 9:56 AM

Cbeyond Sees Massive Growth

What can you say about Cbeyond? Like HP they hit the cover off the ball with their earnings. The company which provides voice, broadband and mobile service to the SMB space had strong fourth quarter growth with revenues of $76.9...

Posted on February 21, 2008 5:43 PM

Cisco VARs Feeling Microsoft Pressure

I saw an article in CRN titled Cisco VoIP VARs Feeling Microsoft Pressure and I found it interesting that Cisco VARs are having to deal with customer doubt regarding selling unified communications solutions.   Imagine this news is coming...

Posted on November 10, 2007 10:51 AM

Open Handset Alliance and More

Another week and other massive avalanche of news in the communications space. The first item worth sharing is regarding Google shaking up the foundation of the mobile phone market. The funny thing is, editors and bloggers have been looking to...

Posted on November 5, 2007 4:18 PM

IMS in a Box

In the IMS space perhaps one of the most controversial concepts I hear is IMS in a box. You see, some vendors tell me the whole concept of IMS in a box is counter to the concept of why the...

Posted on November 5, 2007 5:00 AM

IP Communications News October 6, 2007

It’s been another busy week in the IP communications space as evidenced by the cornucopia of news from seemingly every sector of the market. If you happened to be on vacation this past week or just don’t want to deal...

Posted on October 8, 2007 7:48 AM

Acredo

I recently had the opportunity to speak with Erin Bolton, marketing manager of Acredo Technologies Inc, about IP communications, the company’s customer base and the upcoming ITEXPO.   Acredo Technologies delivers hosted IP phone service to the small business market...

Posted on August 21, 2007 3:00 AM

Rumor: HP to Acquire Comverse

I just heard a rumor which I can’t verify at the moment that HP will acquire or at least has shown potential interest to acquire Comverse. I have no idea if it is true so please take with healthy salt....

Posted on April 18, 2007 12:24 PM

IMS Collaboration: Tekelec/HP

IMS is something many service providers need but the complexity of implementing IP multimedia subsystem solutions has certainly been a cause for operators to deploy such solutions more slowly than some would have hoped. Beyond complexity, another factor which needs...

Posted on April 17, 2007 4:18 AM

Musings: HP, Paragon Wireless, BridgePort Networks

This week has seen more announcements than any in recent memory. 3GSM is probably the main culprit here but beyond this international wireless event there are other tech related news stories worth discussing in today’s musings.   One of the...

Posted on February 13, 2007 10:37 AM

Pretexting OK by Investors

HP seems to have gotten through the pretexting scandal unscathed -- paying $14.5 million to settle a civil claim revolving around the issue. HP shares have actually gained around 9 percent since the probe was disclosed in a regulatory filing,...

Posted on December 8, 2006 7:46 PM

PayPal Explosion

Until recently a PayPal explosion would refer to the massive growth of this online payment company. The most recent news about this company was HP accepting PayPal payments but now it is the company had an explosion in its offices...

Posted on November 1, 2006 12:55 PM

PayPal and HP

I have a PayPal account but I don't use it that often. I suppose I use it a few times a year as opposed to my credit cards which I use daily. Now it seems PayPal is everywhere and I...

Posted on October 30, 2006 6:45 AM

Vonage & HP

Here is an offer that can't be beat. In this case it can't be beat by any cable companies. HP has teamed up with Vonage to give a special offer to purchasers of HP or Compaq computers. Why can't the...

Posted on September 30, 2006 5:19 PM

Will HP Get Off?

It appears that this article leaves lots of wiggle-room for HP to get out of the whole pretexting debacle. Why? There is no law in California preventing the use of pretexting. Sure they have privacy laws but they may not...

Posted on September 27, 2006 4:31 PM

HP like OJ

Whenever I read articles about the recent HP fiasco I think back to how I felt when I was reading about the OJ case. It seems that everyone is leveraging the case for maximal publicity. They are milking it. I...

Posted on September 16, 2006 12:01 PM

Pretexting and Washington

HP executives will be testifying in Washington over the pretexting debacle. Now there is more recent news: The House Energy and Commerce Committee sent letters Friday requesting that HP Chairwoman Patricia Dunn and General Counsel Ann Baskins appear at a...

Posted on September 16, 2006 10:14 AM

Pretexting – The Good, Bad and Ugly

In recent days pretexting has become a mainstream term in newspapers and blogs around the world. Admittedly pretexting is a term that most people are not familiar with and most are shocked when they learn what it is. Pretexting is...

Posted on September 11, 2006 11:05 AM

To Catch a Spy HP Style

This is a really cool story about how HP caught a spy/leaker of confidential information to the media. I didn’t get to finish it – probably because MSNBC forces you to click next excessively to read a story. I prefer...

Posted on September 6, 2006 1:07 PM

3GSM, Skype, Oracle, Nokia and Other News

It’s been a busy morning already. There is just so much news and the morning is just starting. It should be a great week as TMC digs out from the two feet of snow we had this weekend. Personally my...

Posted on February 13, 2006 10:13 AM

$100 Laptop

Will Nortel help make the dream of one laptop per child a reality? Apparently so:Nortel is a member of the "One Laptop per Child" (OLPC) initiative, a non-profit organization, which was formed earlier this year by Nicholas Negroponte and other...

Posted on December 20, 2005 4:05 PM