TMC has been aggressively adding new bloggers to its arsenal of content which attracts 2-3 million communications and tech decision makers worldwide each month. We are now at blogger number 40 and counting. We are still aggressively recruiting many more...
TMC has been aggressively adding new bloggers to its arsenal of content which attracts 2-3 million communications and tech decision makers worldwide each month. We are now at blogger number 40 and counting. We are still aggressively recruiting many more...
Sipera recently received RSA Secured Partner Program Certification meaning you can now use two-factor authentication with your IP phone to ensure secure voice communications. The two factors used in this case are a PIN and a SecureID gadget which gives...
There are a number of bright spots in the IP communications space as evidenced by the last ITEXPO in Miami but the consumer market is not one which you would imagine tops the list. Sure, there is massive growth in...
Yahoo search for term NortelDo a Yahoo search on Nortel and you see ads from Microsoft and Avaya which are quite friendly. Microsoft for example directs you to its People Ready Business site where it pushes its relationship with Nortel...
It is amazing to me that we still need to have this conversation in an industry which is over a decade old but VoIP does not mean calls on the internet. Of course VoIP calls could traverse the internet but...
Here is a well-written piece by Timothy B. Lee at the Cato Institute which focuses on how we can improve the patent system. It points out that patent trolls are merely a symptom of a patent system which is dysfunctional....
Good news for those of you who have been asking me when the videos of the major sessions at ITEXPO will be posted. They now are. The video page is located here and I cut and pasted some of them...
Is thriving too strong? Better than expected? Better than average. You choose the terms but you must admit things are better than many thought they would be. In the toughest economy in my lifetime, IP communications including VoIP is doing...
In the early eighties, you couldn't pass by a radio without hearing the song 867-5309/Jenny by Tommy Tutone. The song starts out: Jenny, Jenny, who can I turn to? You give me somethin' I can hold on to It now...
Steven Ivestor reached out to me recently about some VoIP domains he has for sale. You remember Steve - the CEO of VoIP Inc.? FierceVoIP covered the company's demise last year. For those interested, here is the list. The ones...
With all the doom and gloom talk regarding the global economy, many attendees and exhibitors came to ITEXPO recently in Miami with low expectations. A few exhibitors told me candidly the show could have been justifiably down 30 percent. Instead, we...
Rex Backman Senior Business Development Manager at Microsoft was nice sent me over this image collage from ITEXPO East 2009 in Miami. The image was created with Microsoft Research's AutoCollage application and here is a larger PDF....
Thank you all so much for coming to Miami this week. The numbers are in for ITEXPO East 2009 and the amount of people at the event increased 15% from the same one last year. We could not have done...
Here at ITEXPO East 2009 in Miami I had a chance to speak with Bryan Martin the CEO of 8x8 the company behind the Packet8 VoIP service for consumers and SMBs. At ITEXPO last year in Los Angeles the company...
John Frederiksen, the General Manager of Microsoft's Response Point initiative sees tremendous potential in the SMB phone system space. He says the opportunity is very similar to the netbook market (which grows at 20%) and explains how five years...
AT ITEXPO East 2009 in Miami last night, Microsoft hosted a great dinner for bloggers and analysts. The conversation was lively and the networking as great as any event I have gone to. One comment of note was that Response...
I just had a great conversation about ITEXPO with Bill Frogameni at the South Florida Business Journal. To me it is always amazing to see how various reporters find different parts of the same news important.For example, in the article...
I would obviously agree wholeheartedly with Alan Percy that face-to-face meetings are essential for business to get done. Yes, there are more tools than ever like blogs, twitter and social networking which allow people to keep in touch electronically and...
Here are some links from a recent ITEXPO Show Daily sent to ITEXPO attendees. It doesn't live online yet so I can't post a link. (Show daily 1, 2) Instead I cut and pasted some of the more important parts...
Hi all, thought it made sense to pass along this press release TMC is about to put out so you know what is happening at ITEXPO this Monday-Wednesday in Miami. Hope to see you there soon. Oh -- and I...
Last week I posted some links to interviews which I did with various thought leaders who will be participating at ITEXPO next week in Miami. Since the last post I had a chance to conduct a few more which are...
The parallels between nature and business are seen most often when species or companies need to adapt to change. In this case the change in the economic climate has made it a financial imperative for many companies to do whatever...
Verizon is about to shut down its VoiceWing service and in the process leave thousands of orphaned and locked ATAs, Most of these devices are probably old by consumer electronics standards but as Tom Keating points out it is too...
Yesterday, a number of people blogged about ITEXPO and discussed what they will be doing at the show. It seemed like a good weekend project to assemble some of these posts in one place so you can join in the...