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Astricon Asterisk Videos Posting

November 26, 2010

Danny Windham Welcome to AstriCon 2010


My team is posting much of the footage from the recent Astricon show - clicking on any of the links below will lead you to the location where you can view them.

Is This Line Secure - Part 1 Asterisk In Large Scale - Part 1 Asterisk In Large Scale - Part 2 Asterisk In Large Scale - Part 3 Kevin Fleming - Keynote - Part 1 Kevin Fleming - Keynote - Part 2 Kevin Fleming - Keynote - Part 3 Kevin Fleming - Keynote - Part 4 Mark Summers Keynote Part 1 Mark Summers Keynote Part 2 Interview with Inveneo.org Interview with LumenVox at AstriCon 2010

Alcatel-Lucent Turning the Corner?

November 5, 2010

After a number of years and some challenging times after the merger - Alcatel-Lucent the combination of New Jersey-based Lucent and Paris-based Alcatel is turning the corner making a quarterly profit and displaying more confidence about its future. Kevin O'Brien at the New York Times explains the company reported its first profitable quarter of the year, posting €25 million, or $35.3 million, in earnings compared to a €182 million loss in the third quarter a year earlier. Moreover sales rose 10.5 percent to €4.1 billion.

Although Asian competition from ZTE and Huawei is strong, the company certainly benefited from the implosion of Nortel and we'll see if they can ride this momentum out and keep the profits coming.

TMCnet's Ed Silverstein has more and The Motley Fool suggests Alcatel-Lucent is the next Nortel - waiting to implode. 



TMC to Conduct Video Interviews in Boston Dec 8-9

November 4, 2010

My team and I will be heading up to Boston to conduct video interviews with players in the technology and communications space. If you are interested in scheduling an interview - and have news to break or share, be sure to send a note to Jaime Hernaez ASAP to schedule a time as we expect all the slots to fill up very quickly.

Here is a sample interview to get an idea of our format:

Interactive Intelligence Announces Positive Preliminary Earnings

October 12, 2010

There are a few things I wish for regarding earnings in the tech space.

  • I wish I had time to give my thoughts on every announcement
  • I wish they were all as good as what Interactive Intelligence just accomplished
In short the company just released preliminary third-quarter numbers and said they had nine orders over $1 million with two of them being larger than $2M. I am not sure how this compares with past quarters but regardless, these are significant customer sizes in an era of price compression.

The company says its cloud offering is doing well and you may recall company CMO Joe Staples spent some time recently (video) in the TMC Newsroom giving me details of the launch.

ININ expects total revenue to be between $41-$42 million with GAAP net income between $3.3-$3.9M. Last year the number was $2.8M meaning an increase of at least 17% over last year's sales.

According to founder and CEO Dr. Don Brown, the size of the deals gives the company increased operating leverage and revenue growth.

ININ CMO Joe Staples addresses a standing-room-only crowd last week at the first ever TMC Social CRM Expo




Here are additional details regarding the company's earnings:

Interactive Intelligence plans to issue a press release announcing its final 2010 third-quarter results Nov. 1 at 4 p.m. Eastern daylight time.


















ITEXPO West 2010 Video Update With Dave Rodriguez

October 4, 2010

In the video below, TMC President Dave Rodriguez discusses some of the exciting events of the week happening here in Los Angeles at the LA Convention Center as part of ITEXPO West 2010.


Avaya Flare Interface Detailed

October 3, 2010

AtITEXPO West 2010 in Los Angeles, Christian Von Reventlow discusses how the Avaya Flare interface was designed and what it's value is in the enterprise. Moreover he explains how business process and social media come together via this new interface and how tablets make it work even more effectively.


I am sure you've seen my Avaya Flare live blog from the launch event by now and you are likely just as excited as I am to hear Avaya's Phil Edholm speak at ITEPO in LA about these exciting new developments. Mark your calendar for Tuesday, Oct 5th at 12:45 PST. Here are the details.

ITEXPO West 2010 Show Guide Available

October 1, 2010

The ITEXPO West 2010 Show Guide is here and if you are flying to the show - you may want to download it to your Kindle/laptop/iPad/netbook/smartphone or print it. I am on the plane now and we have the equivalent of a 300 baud modem's worth of bandwidth so I can't download it but as I recall it is over 100 pages and gives you a solid overview of the dozen conferences taking place next week.

In addition it shows you the exhibit hall with over 200 exhibitors and which sections correspond to which technology.

I have this dream that I will have enough time to go through the directory and point to some of the interesting highlights in a blog post.

We'll see how that works out.

Here is the PDF and it is fairly compressed down to 5 Megs as I recall - we may be getting a higher res one soon as well in case you have the bandwidth.







Apple, Sony, Microsoft, Google and ITEXPO News September 1, 2010

September 2, 2010

It has been an extremely exciting week again for tech news and moreover for me personally as I got a chance to open up my Sony Dash and it is a very cool addition to my desktop as it allows me to view my photos and take advantage of widgets of all kinds which among other thinks allow me to see the pandas at the San Diego Zoo. This handy gadget has a slew of communications, social networking and calendar features as well but for now, I just want to see the pandas.

 

The big news from yesterday of course was Steve Jobs onstage pushing a slew of new iPods and a rental-only model for Apple TV and a social network integrated into iTunes.

TMC Editorial Open House at 40+ Companies

August 5, 2010

On August 12th, 2010 - next week, we will be hosting an editorial open house for companies in the technology and communications space. Over 40 companies are coming to the TMC headquarters in Norwalk, CT and we are very much looking forward to gaining valuable insight about market happenings which we will be sharing with our audience after our meetings and video shoots. Here is more information on the event.

Very exciting.

Book ITEXPO Now to Save Hundreds

August 4, 2010

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 make this show better than ever. At TMC we take education extremely seriously and in a trade show market where companies regularly fold up and go away, we are proud to be putting on industry-leading events for 24 years.

What I have personally learned over the years is if you provide the best education to your customers with a wide enough array of topics, your attendees walk away very happy.

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