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Latin America Unified Communications
Microsoft expects to see over 20% growth in it’s Information Worker division in South America during it’s next fiscal year. The UC platform will be the flagship component of the 2007 product versions to be launched in October and will...
Unwired Enterprise
Nortel is perfectly positioned to bring the world their Unwired Enterprise vision. The company is a strong player in the enterprise and service provider markets. For this reason it may even be surprising Nortel hasn’t gained more traction as they...
Where Did Rich Go?
OK, Rich has not abandoned his loyal readers. He really values these people as without his readers he would stop blogging and at that point he would have to find a hobby or two. Thankfully, dear readers, I am...
PhoneGnome
Is PhoneGnome from Televolution the ultimate CLEC 2.0 Enabler? We know the story all too well. Thousands of CLECs backed by the venture capital market flooded the telecom space in the hopes of all becoming the next AT&T. The...
Democrats Say You are Lying
Here is an interesting story from CNET on Google’s need for more immigrants with H1-B visas. According to the article, some Democrats wonder if Google is doing enough to recruit Americans. The question worth asking is are these Democrats serious?...
Outlook Toolbar
What are VoIP service providers up to these days? Simple. They are doing things like adding toolbars to their services. In this case Packet8 has an Outlook toolbar which not only allows outbound calls it also has a screen pop...
Office Live Meeting 2007
Tom Keating has a great review/first look at Microsoft’s Office Live Meeting 2007 which seems a voluminous name for a product. But perhaps this is intentional as the software is stuffed with features. For example the same desktop client is...
Google Gears
Google’s announcement that they have launched Google Gears is significant as it means the plethora of web-based applications which once were not able to run without internet connectivity can now function without a connection. The technology is available as open-source...
SimulScribe
The voicemail transcription market otherwise known as voicemail to text is showing no signs of slowing down. I have written about this space a few times (Voicemail Transcription, Vonage Voicemail Transcription, SpinVox) in the past and I think it has...
Office Headsets
I have written a few times in the past about TMC’s channel program and the fact we have built over 100 business to businesses (b2b) communities in the communications and technology space. The communities are news-based and are designed...
Vista Reseller Webinar
I just noticed a webinar helping VARs who focus on reselling Microsoft Vista. I thought this may be of interest to resellers and worth passing on. The webinar is hosted by CMP and the details are here....
Sender ID Update
Here are some details on the Sender ID framework which may become important as ISPs increase their e-mail filtering. Here is an excerpt from the article: Reputation is based on behavioral factors such as the amount of traffic sent,...
Blackberry Attacks Microsoft
RIM is offering it’s mobile device software on other platforms such as Windows Mobile and the question on most people’s minds Is probably “Why?” After all, Windows Mobile devices already do pretty much everything Blackberrys do and in many cases...
Microsoft Unlimited Potential
Bill Gates is on record as ridiculing the $100 laptop earmarked for third world children… The reason he disliked the device is because the specs did not measure up to what he thought such a computer should and could be....
Vonage Voicemail Transcription
At CTIA a few weeks back I heard Vonage will offer a voicemail transcribing service soon but I was sworn to secrecy. As you may know I have been writing about voicemail transcription a great deal lately. I thought I...
Microsoft Gives Away Exchange 2007
In the last seven years or so the adoption of open-source solutions has been breathtaking and Microsoft is not sitting on the sidelines watching this happen from afar. They have to be concerned about Linux and myriad open-source software...
Voicemail Transcription
I am not sure what the category of product is that converts voicemail to e-mail but I suppose voicemail transcription covers it nicely. Recently wrote about SpinVox and how the company converts voicemail to e-mail automatically. I am in...
Google Buys DoubleClick
Google reached an agreement today to purchase DoubleClick for $3.1 billion according to the New York Times. This is a significant accomplishment for Google as Microsoft too was interested in acquiring the display advertising server company. DoubleClick serves the...
H1-B Visas
The US has a chronic shortage of technology workers. Sure the job market has gone up and down over the past decade but today, we need more tech workers at various levels and it seems being a programmer or engineer...
Esna Technologies
When you think about unified communications you probably think of the big software or hardware companies. These are the organizations making the biggest splash in the UC area. But we all know about the big boys. What is really...
Unified Communications Magazine
In case you missed my past blog entries regarding SIP Magazine becoming Unified Communications Magazine, consider it official… The change has begun and we are working on the look and feel of this new publication. It should be different than...
Response Point
In case you weren’t aware, Microsoft unveiled a small business phone system recently called Response Point. TMCnet’s Tom Keating has a well thought-out blog entry on what Microsoft is doing as well as a bit of history on Microsoft and...
Cisco's Real Strengths
Cisco’s incredible strength comes from being able to leverage its strong brand and enourmous salesforce to sell virtually every sort of product in telecom and datacom. This report makes it seem like the outlook for the competition is bleak. ...
Hosted Unified Communications
Recently Microsoft and Nortel expanded their efforts to bring unified communications to the world. In this case, they have tackled the tough job of bringing unified communications to service providers who will in turn be able to bring UC to...
Yahoo! E-mail
One of the most interesting parts of the technology space is actually the hosted e-mail market, where Yahoo!, has recently done something amazing with their e-mail product allowing you to have infinite storage. Now there was a time when Google’s...
