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Logitech ConferenceCam CC3000e Video Conferencing for SMB Review

Fri, 14 Mar 2014 16:09:49 -0500

Logitech, a leader in USB-based computer peripherals is targeting their new Logitech ConferenceCam CC3000e towards the SMB, which cannot afford $50,000+ telepresence video systems, but is looking for something a step up from a webcam for conference room based video conferencing.

The Logitech ConferenceCam CC3000e is easy to setup with everything clearly numbered and labeled so you know how to make all the connections. Since it uses USB you can use your favorite UC or Web conferencing application, including Microsoft Lync, Skype, Vidyo, and Cisco. The CC3000e has a remote control for changing the camera angle including left/right and up/down movements. You can do incremental movements with single presses of a certain direction or you can press and hold for faster movement, which was very smooth.

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TransCertain CertainSafe Review - 2014

Wed, 19 Feb 2014 16:38:26 -0500

You may have seen my 2013 review of TransCertain's CertainSafe product, a cloud-based file sharing platform. Well, I decided to take a look at their newer version which was published in the 1st quarter issue of Cloud Computing. Here's my full unedited copy in all its glory, which differs slightly from the magazine's version. Enjoy!

There is no shortage of cloud-based file sharing solutions on the market, such as Box, Dropbox, or Skydrive, which are very popular with consumers.

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Jumper Card - The Swiss Army Knife of Portable Chargers

Mon, 10 Feb 2014 09:42:43 -0500

The Jumper Card is a very unique portable charger that meets just about every portable charger requirement - it's small/portable, it has decent power for its size, and it sports multiple connector types, including MicroUSB, Apple's Lightning, and iPhone 30-pin connectors. Launched on Indiegogo, the founder Eli Regalado sent me a review unit to check out.

Looking at the Jumper Card from the top with the connectors popped out, sporting 3 different connection types, you can see why I call this the "Swiss Army Knife" of portable chargers:

It measures 3.54 x 2.24 x 0.25 inches. By comparison, a credit card is 3.34 x 2.12 x 0.030 inches. So how well would this do in a wallet? ]]> Continue Reading... Tags: george costanza, iphone, jumper card, lightning, mobile phone, portable battery, portable charger, power, swiss army knife Related tags: portable charger, knife portable, portable chargers, microusb apple, lightning iphone, jumper

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Interesting Tidbits from ITEXPO

Thu, 30 Jan 2014 17:04:52 -0500

Cisco quietly let go 50 engineers and other people responsible for their low-cost SPA line of desktop IP phones (SPA300, SPA500, etc.) - I believe back in November. The IP phones targeted the SMB and I'm told it's a $600 million business for Cisco that Cisco just decided to let go to focus on the "enterprise". Must be nice to say no to $600 million! They're still selling the SPA line of products (and may even still be manufacturing them), but there is no more development on the SPA line of IP phones. ]]> Continue Reading... Tags: blue steel, byod, cisco, grandstream, ip phone, itexpo, obihai, pbx, sip, voip, xorcom, yealink Related tags: cloud based, telephony ports, service providers, switchvox cloud, phone, itexpo

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Midokura Virtualizes Your Network to the Cloud

Wed, 29 Jan 2014 11:27:40 -0500

I met with Midokura, a company founded in Japan, in the press room at ITEXPO to learn about their network virtualization solution. Midokura offers IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) for both public and private cloud. They plug into Openstack / CloudStack / vSphere and can run them in a distributed software environment. midokura's Adam Johnson, General Manage explained how Midokura Midokura came about. ]]> Continue Reading... Tags: cloud computing, cloudstack, itexpo, midokura, midonet, networks, openstack, virtualization, vmware, vsphere Related tags: public private, distributed, midokura, network, virtual, solution

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HiperPBX Bridges M2M and PBX Creating "Industrial Unified Communications"

Wed, 29 Jan 2014 10:32:51 -0500

HiperPBX's Gustavo Scheveloff, Sales Director gave me an introduction of HiperPBX at ITEXPO Miami 2014. Their solution is unique in that it's a VoIP PBX that not only features Unified Communications (UC), but it also sports some interesting M2M features. They have developed a software industrial module and defined a new concept - "Industrial Unified Communications", which leverages M2M.

It leverages mobile TCP & SNMP for monitoring devices, routers, switches and can send SMS, make a phone call or send an email if a machine has an error. In industrial environments it can be useful to monitor high temperature, humidity, switch not responding, machine under heavy load. ]]> Continue Reading... Tags: asterisk, hiperpbx, itexpo, m2m, miami, uc, unified communications, voip Related tags: unified communications, gustavo scheveloff, introduction hiperpbx, industrial unified, record prompts, hiperpbx

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Digium's Billy Chia Opens Asterisk 1-2-3 Session to Packed Room

Tue, 28 Jan 2014 11:25:03 -0500

Digium's Billy Chia kicked off the Asterisk 1-2-3 session, an all day workshop taking place at ITEXPO in Miami. He's discussed dynamically loaded modules, how to view core channel types, and how to load the Scooby Doo of Asterisk - rasterisk. (Billy does a pretty good Scooby Doo impersonation)

He also touched on how to load codecs and the current IP issues with some codecs such as Opus, which can be used in WebRTC.

It's fun to watch Billy SSH into an Asterisk box and run various Linux and Asterisk commands. Very educational.

Here's a photo of the jammed packed session:
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Logitech ConferenceCam CC3000e Video Conferencing Targets SMB

Mon, 27 Jan 2014 04:00:00 -0500

According to Frost and Sullivan in 2013 that said, "We believe that globally there are 60-70 million physical conference rooms. We estimate that about 5% of these are penetrated with video conferencing capabilities." A big part of the reason for such low penetration is the cost of room-based video conferencing systems, which can be hundeds of thousands of dollars for high-end telepresence systems. Many businesses simply get by with traditional audioconferencing "UFO-shaped" phones in board rooms due to the high cost of videoconferencing systems. Logitech, a leader in USB-based computer peripherals aims to change that with the new Logitech ConferenceCam CC3000e, which is launching today.

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Schmooze Com Showcasing FreePBX HA Appliances at ITEXPO

Wed, 15 Jan 2014 17:10:36 -0500

With ITEXPO just around the corner (January 28-31st) in Miami, companies are already announcing their wares that they'll showcase at this premiere communications tradeshow. One of my favorite VoIP solutions is FreePBX, so I'm excited to check out the new FreePBX High Availability (HA) Appliances that Schmooze Com, Inc. will be showcasing.

Check out the news below & make sure you attend ITEXPO...

Schmooze Com, Inc. and maintainers of FreePBX, the world’s leading Open Source PBX platform, announced today that it has added two new FreePBX High Availability Appliance solutions to it’s line of FreePBX Appliances. FreePBX Appliances are certified hardware solutions specifically designed to support and run FreePBX. The SMB HA Appliance is designed to target businesses with up to 75 users/extensions, and the Xtreme HA Appliance Bundle will support installations with up to 350 extensions.

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AT&T Syn248 Review

Wed, 15 Jan 2014 12:24:03 -0500

The AT&T Syn248 is a new Do It Yourself (DIY) IP-based phone system that supports up to 8 analog lines and 24 phones (hence the Syn248 naming), which truly hits the SMB sweet spot. I was intrigued that AT&T was offering a corporate PBX, considering most carriers in the past didn’t sell CPE-based PBXs and instead sold Centrex (hosted) and now currently sell cloud-based VoIP into the SMB space, that certainly piqued my interest. I requested an evaluation kit to review the AT&T Syn248. I was sent one of their 4-port 1U SB35010 gateways/PBXs, which can be expanded to 8-ports simply by adding a second 4-port gateway to reach the 8 port maximum.

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TringMe Launches WebRTC Chrome Extension

Fri, 10 Jan 2014 10:52:21 -0500

I've been covering TringMe since 2007, when they launched an Adobe Flash-based VoIP app. Later they added support for ChromeOS, VoiceXML, and even Silverlight. Today, TringMe's Founder and CEO Yusaf Motiwala informed me they've launched a WebRTC solution. WebRTC apps are a dime-a-dozen you say? ]]> Continue Reading... Tags: android, browser, chrome, extension, firefox, mobile voip, tringme, voip, webrtc Related tags: chrome extension, receive calls, yusaf motiwala, between browsers, tringme, chrome

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Smartphone Shortcomings - Graphene Supercapacitors to the Rescue!

Wed, 08 Jan 2014 09:32:32 -0500

It's the start of a new year and surely we've all read several "Best of 2013" lists ad nausem. But I thought I'd share an interesting infographic I was sent titled 'Smartphone Shortcomings', which examines one of the biggest complaints about smartphones - namely battery life. Count me in as a complainer. Nothing worse than playing Hill Climb Racing or Jetpack Joyride and feel your smartphone getting hot enough to fry an egg (sorta) due to the higher CPU & GPU utilization and watching the battery drain from full to zero in just 3 hours of game play. ]]> Continue Reading... Tags: battery, computersciencehub, electricity, graphene, hill climb racing, jetpack joyride, lithium-ion, mobile phone, smart phone, supercapacitor Related tags: smartphone shortcomings, battery, smartphone, smartphones, graphene

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Skype's Social Media Accounts Hacked

Thu, 02 Jan 2014 09:56:06 -0500

Skype social media accounts including their Twitter account, Facebook page, and blog were hacked by a group claiming to be the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA). Athough Skype gained control of their accounts and deleted the SEA's posts, the SEA tweeted in their own account this message:

Don't use Microsoft emails(hotmail,outlook),They are monitoring your accounts and selling the data to the governments.http://blogs.skype.com/2014/01/01/dont-use-microsoft-emails-hotmailoutlook-they-are-monitoring-your-accounts-and-selling-the-data-to-the-governments/ …

Apparently, Edward Snowden and his release of NSA secrets, which impacted 2013 like no other story (except maybe ObamaCare) will continue to impact 2014. What I find amazing is that the SEA hacked two different social media accounts plus Skype's blog web server. I'm curious... ]]> Continue Reading... Tags: facebook, hack, hacking, microsoft, sea, skype, social media, syrian electronic army, twitter, voip Related tags: media accounts, social media, factor authentication, offers factor, monitoring accounts, skype

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Ooma Office Review

Tue, 17 Dec 2013 11:12:50 -0500

Many small businesses dread buying a new phone system - and for good reason. Besides the dizzying array of hardware-based phone systems, there are cloud VoIP phone systems, VoIP phone systems, digital phone systems, and more. A feature-rich phone system with an auto-attendant, multiple phone lines, conference bridge, voicemail, ring groups, extensions, and other features can certainly give a small company the appearance of a larger organization. However, these features require equipment and professional installation. ]]> Continue Reading... Tags: auto attendant, dect, ooma, ooma office, pbx, phone system, smb, virtual receptionist, wireless Related tags: phone system, phone systems, virtual extensions, extensions virtual, phone numbers, phone

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Microsoft Store Sells Out Dell Venue 8 Pro in Minutes & Website Crashes

Mon, 09 Dec 2013 10:15:33 -0500

Microsoft has a sweet $99 deal for a $299 Dell Venue 8 Pro tablet. However, it was only the first 20 at each Microsoft Store will have these tablets available at that price, after which it becomes a still pretty reasonable $199 for the next 10 units and then full price after that. Well, the deal got some pretty good press coverage, and everyone was looking to cash in on this door buster deal, which is part of Microsoft's Christmas "12 Days of Deals".

I went to the Danbury Mall's Microsoft Store at 8am this morning to try and snag one but the line was already 40 people long , so I headed to work to try and get one online, since the promo also applies to the online store, with the $99 price for the first 100 orders and then $199 for the rest of the day while stocks last.

I had multiple Google Chrome tabs open http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msusa/en_US/pdp/Dell-Venue-8-Pro-Tablet-32-GB/productID.289455200 to try and get the $99 deal and the Microsoft Store website was unbearably slow!

Check out the errors I received from the website:

First the tantalizing red spinning arrow, indicating it's adding me to the placeholder. ]]> Continue Reading... Tags: apple, dell, microsoft, tablet, venue 8 pro Related tags: microsoft store, windows tablet, played microsoft, microsoft, store, tablet

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