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Longview IoT Boosts Energy and Wireless Efficiency

By Rich Tehrani on Monday, May 20

Some of the biggest challenges slowing down the adoption of IoT are security, efficient battery usage and optimized wireless communications.One company has...

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Tagged battery, cybersecurity, iiot, iot, longview iot, lora, m2m, mesh, security, solar, tdma, tech, telecom, wifi

Hallmark's Simple, Inexpensive Way to Boost Customer Satisfaction

By Rich Tehrani on Friday, May 17

In an effort to boost margins, companies often push more users to automated solutions such as FAQs, chatbots, voice bots and anything...

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Tagged call center, contact center, crm, customer service, hallmark, net promoter score, nps, tsr

Huawei Places the World's First 5G VoNR Video Call

By Rich Tehrani on Friday, May 17

Huawei recently completed the world's first voice over NR (VoNR) call. The voice and video call service was made using two Huawei...

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Tagged 5g, android, apple, cisco, dell, foldable, folding, galaxy fold, huawei, ios, ipad, iphone, mate x, samsung, tariff, trump

IGEL Advances Future of Work

By Rich Tehrani on Thursday, May 16

IGEL is a provider of a next-gen edge OS for cloud workspaces. The company’s software products include IGEL OS, IGEL UD Pocket (UDP) and Universal...

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Tagged automation, displayport, fow, future, future of work, google, green technology, linux, microsoft

Tata Communications and Cisco Collaborate on SD-WAN

By Rich Tehrani on Thursday, May 16

Tata Communications and Cisco have extended their partnership to enable enterprises to transform their legacy network to a customized and secure multi-cloud...

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Tagged 4g, 5g, business, channel, cisco, cloud, cloud communications, cloud pbx, collaboration, conference call, conferencing, consultant, contact center, hosted voice, ip communications, lte, mobile, msp, ooma, phone, pjsip, reseller, retail, sbc, sd-wan, security, service provider, sip forking, solution, stun, tata communications, uc, ucaas, ucaas provider, ucoms, video, video conferencing, webrtc, wireless

How to Win the 50-Year-Old China Trade War

By Rich Tehrani on Wednesday, May 15

Today and this week in-fact is historic - the left and right in the U.S. agree that we have a major trade...

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Tagged apple lost american jobs, china, supply chain

Extreme Elements Enables The Autonomous Enterprise

By Rich Tehrani on Wednesday, May 15

Extreme Networks just announced Extreme Elements which in-turn enables the autonomous network and subsequently the autonomous enterprise. In a dynamic webinar, Dan...

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Tagged byod, cloud communciations, cloud pbx, collaboration, communications, contact center, cybersecurity, ddos, dhcp, directory, extreme, extreme networks, fancy bear, hack, hacker, hacking, hosted voice, iiot, iot, ip communications, meetings, multirate, networking, nfv, phishing, politics, qoe, russia, security, sip, sip trunking, slack, uc, ucaas, ucoms, video conferencing, vnf, webrtc, wifi, wikileaks, wireless

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Rotten Apple: iTunes 11 Latest Cutbacks

December 6, 2012

Sure, Apple seems like it is always getting better and more streamlined, but what about the other side of the story? We're here to inform you what is really going on behind all the glamour of Apple and some noteworthy features that were left out of iTunes 11 from it's predecessors.

Number 7: The Genius Recommendation Sidebar

iTunes 11's lack of this feature may go unnoticed to most music listeners, but for avid users of Genius this will be an inconvenience.

Posted in Apple, Home Entertainment, MP3 Players & Digital Audio

Tagged: apple, duplicates, itunes, itunes 11, mp3, problems, songs, ui, user interface : Related Tags: multiple windows, itunes, feature, number, music, windows

Windows 8 Tablets Will Beat Apple & Android

December 5, 2012

After using and testing the Samsung ATIV Smart PC Pro 700t (XE700T1C) for a few weeks I've come to the conclusion that Windows 8 tablets will without a doubt beat Apple iPad tablets and Android tablets. The reason is simple actually and can be summed up in just two words - "No compromise". With Apple tablets and even Android tablets there is always some compromise. With Apple, the biggest compromise is the lack of Flash and if I hear one more person tell me Flash is dead and HTML5 is the way to go I'm going to smack them!

Posted in Accessories, Gadgets, TMCnet, Tablets, Technology and Science, Unified Communications, WebRTC, Wireless

Tagged: 700t, android, apple, ativ, google, ios, samsung, smart pc pro, tablets, touch, windows 8 : Related Tags: windows tablet, windows tablets, compromise apple, visual studio, android tablets, windows

Ogaco iKazoo, the Strangely Fascinating Gadget, Motion Controller & Flute

November 30, 2012

Ogaco reached out to me to tell me about their new product called iKazoo. iKazoo looks like a Kazoo but with a curved bump in the middle. It has several sensors and can be used as a motion controller for video games, but it is also a music instrument and a digital pen for drawing on tablets.

Two (presumably) Indian Persian sisters have a YouTube video promoting the new iKazoo.

Posted in Accessories, Gadgets, Technology and Science, Wireless

Tagged: flute, gadget, ikazoo, motion controller, ogaco : Related Tags: balance board, motion controller, strangely fascinated, ikazoo, device, gadget

2012 WebRTC Demo Winners Announced

November 29, 2012

Posted in Cloud, Google, Internet, Unified Communications, VoIP, WebRTC

Tagged: bistri, plantronics, priologic, pubnub, tropo, vidtel, webrtc, zingaya : Related Tags: webrtc

Google WebRTC Workshop at WebRTC Conference Exceeds Expectations

November 28, 2012

TMC was at the forefront of covering VoIP and educating the industry though Internet Telephony Magazine (launched in 1997) and TMCnet.com. So I am excited to announced that my company TMC, along with Systemwide Media and PKE Consulting has announced that attendance at the opening workshop of its first-ever WebRTC Conference & EXPO more than doubled projections, with more than 300 registered attendees representing enterprises, and companies driving a revolution in Web communications. WebRTC is going to be a huge game changer in the VoIP space, so I'm excited that TMC is involved in educating and covering WebRTC, the next evolution of VoIP. The conference is being held this week at the South San Francisco Conference Center.

Check out a couple photos from the WebRTC Conference & Expo:

Yesterday's workshop in San Francisco was led by Google Software Engineer Justin Uberti.

Posted in Google, Internet, Unified Communications, VoIP

Tagged: conference, rich tehrani, san francisco, voip, webrtc : Related Tags: webrtc conference, francisco conference, conference center, systemwide media, webrtc, conference

HTC Droid DNA vs. Nokia Lumia 920

November 26, 2012

My personal favorite new phone is the Nokia Lumia 920, but the HTC DNA is an impressive beast sporting the same Snapdragon S4 processor that has monster performance and some impressive power, 4G/LTE, and thermal characteristics embedded on this chipset. David Anderson, a fellow technology enthusiast, asked to post a guest blog on the new HTC DNA. His thoughts on the HTC DNA follows:

For consumers looking for the next big thing in Android smartphones, the Droid DNA from HTC has a lot to offer, and a really big screen. It is one of the devices that are being talked about more in recent, because of its great design.

The HTC Droid DNA has the new Android Jelly Bean 4.1, and a lot of extras.

Tagged: 4g, android, david anderson, dna, features, htc, lte, lumia 920, mobile phone, nokia, smart phone, specifications, specs : Related Tags: nokia lumia, android jelly, processing power, great design, smartphone sector, droid

Brightcove to Keynote DevCon5 HTML5 & Mobile App Developers Conference

November 20, 2012

Today, TMC and Crossfire Media today announced that Ashley Streb, vice president of Brightcove, will be the keynote speaker on Thursday, November 29, 2012 12:00 p.m. at DevCon5 HTML5 & Mobile App Developers Conference, at the South San Francisco Conference Center in San Francisco, California. The conference is happening next week from November 27 - November 29.
Ashley Streb VP of Brightcove will discuss how Brightcove's App Cloud platform is designed for the next wave of app development for the mobile world in a session, titled: The Rise of the Hybrid Apps.

Streb will walk through some real-world examples of hybrid apps and look at the current landscape of both UIframeworks; Sencha Touch, jQuery Mobile, jQTouch, jo, zepto, and native containers PhoneGap, Appcelerator and Brightcove App Cloud.

Posted in Cloud, Internet, TMCnet, Unified Communications, VoIP, Wireless

Tagged: apps, asley streb, devcon5, development, html5, mobile, wireless : Related Tags: developers conference, ashley streb, crossfire media, brightcove, mobile, conference

Will Arnett Featured in Nokia Lumia 920 'Work for Will' Contest

November 15, 2012

In a TV commercial, Will Arnett says the Nokia Lumia 920 is the ultimate digital assistant, but as an "international / regional superstar" (his words in video #2) he needs handlers to handle it for him. He likes Todd, his current handler, but Todd is quitting so Will is looking for a new Todd. Will is holding a contest on workforwill.com where you can view two additional funny videos in addition to the funny TV commercial, which you can view here:

To enter the contest, you customize your Windows Phone 8 live tiles as well as pick a skin color for the Nokia 920, as seen by this browser screenshot:

Then you are asked to connect to Facebook to pull some information about you, which is then used in a personalized video from Will Arnett.

Posted in Mobile Phones

Tagged: contest, live tiles, nokia, nokia 920, will arnett, windows phone 8, work for will : Related Tags: nokia lumia, winner guest, offer employment, ground transportation, prize being, winner

Fraunhofer Full-HD Voice - HD Voice on Steroids?

November 13, 2012

I was very familiar with Fraunhofer, since they are renowned for their MP3 encoder and in fact helped pioneer MP3 technology. A German company, Fraunhofer continues to do research to come up with the best sounding audio at the lowest bitrates and smallest file size. As we know, Voice over IP (VoIP) also requires high sound quality at the lowest bitrates and smallest file size. In addition, VoIP has low latency requirements, so suppose a codec exists that compresses audio 30% better than any other codec but adds 100ms latency - it would be useless due to unacceptable delay.

So I was fascinated to learn from Fraunhofer about their AAC-ELD codec library, which they call Full-HD Voice, which is one better than HD voice (G.722) we hear so much about.

Tagged: codec, fraunhofer, hd, hd voice, latency, opus, silk, voip : Related Tags: consumers expect, codec library, bitrates smallest, lowest bitrates, voice, codec

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