David Byrd
Chief Marketing Officer for ANPI
Linux Foundation Embedded Solutions Director's Case for Open Source and Connected Car
The car of 2013 is different from the one I learned to drive, a 1974 Ford Maverick with rear federal bumpers, aluminum...
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Business Video and Queen Lead Guitarist Brian May
"A good video can make all the difference," says Brian May (Ph.D. Astro-Physics and Queen lead guitarist). Such is true for business!Even...
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What's a VAR to do?
Value-added Resellers (VARs) have a business model dependent on hardware sales. The big ticket items bring in cash in a lump...
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Yealink SIP T-38G Review
The Yealink SIP T-38G Gigabit color LCD PoE IP phone is another impressive IP phone following in the steps of the Yealink...
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Logitech Sets Sights on Unified Communications
Logitech said in their February corporate report that "Some of our other peripherals product categories are experiencing significant market challenges. As the...
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telyHD Review
The telyHD appliance brings powerful, affordable HD video conferencing to SMBs and larger enterprises, rivaling high-end telepresence platforms from Cisco, LifeSize, and...
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Toogethr Founder Voorzanger on Peer to Peer Transport and Connected Cars
Many thanks to Connected Cars Conference scheduled June 25 - 26, 2013 in Amsterdam for introducing Martin Voorzanger founder of startup Toogethr...
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July 11, 2011
This weekend the Broadvox and Cypress management team met at our CEO’s home in Ohio for business discussions and dinner. Two of us were asked to cook for the 21 attendees. Frank Grillo, EVP Applications, Implementation and Support, and I accepted the challenge without pause. Please consider, we would have no time for advance preparation, work in an unfamiliar kitchen with unfamiliar tools and try to blend our styles of cooking.
Red, White and ooVoo
July 1, 2011
As the Fourth of July is approaching with many on vacation, I’ll make this brief. I was wondering what I could find that would tie our country’s independence to IP Communications. Clearly, it wasn’t around during the Revolutionary war and no amount of spin can change that. Perhaps, a few of us will forego traveling to an actual fireworks display and watch it over the web or replays on YouTube. But that is hardly worth noting.
No Patent Pending, Just Heat
June 27, 2011
Last week we were dining at a new restaurant when my wife said she wanted to order the pull pork sliders. I reminded her we had pulled pork at home and promised to make a more interesting version within days. Instead she ordered a crab cake and took me at my word. My pulled pork sliders took her on a culinary journey.
RIP RIM
June 24, 2011
Once a darling of Wall Street, RIM has fallen from a market value of $83 billion to $15 billion in just a few years. Moreover, there is no end in sight to their market share loss. Even their hold on corporate America is giving way. For the first time since I have been at Broadvox, an Apple iPhone is now considered acceptable by IT as a company phone.
Follow Me on Tweeter
June 22, 2011
Yesterday Texas Governor Rick Perry implored attendees at Right Online, a conference for conservative bloggers and social networkers, to follow him on “Tweeter”. Aside from the incorrect naming of the site, it is indeed interesting that nearly every candidate running for the office of President of the United States is utilizing the Internet to get out their message. Jon Huntsman, Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney and others have first announced their intentions by launching a YouTube video or tweeting to their followers. Of course, we also have the less than stellar usage by Congressman Anthony Weiner posting an undesirable photo to one of his followers.
It's Not That Time of Year
June 20, 2011
I tend to look back on my weekends and think I didn’t cook very much. As usual though, once I take stock of each day, I begin to realize that I was in the kitchen more than I thought. Saturday, I made breakfast sandwiches (egg, cheese, bacon on whole wheat). It is a simple recipe and I will share it with you in a future blog.
Because
June 17, 2011
The QWERTY keyboard was designed to slow typing down. Early typewriters jammed when typists hit the keys too hard and fast. By moving the most used keys under the weakest fingers and forcing the use of the left hand (slightly impairing right handed users) the mechanical devices performed better even though the design reduced speed and productivity. Interestingly, this keyboard with all of its known flaws continues to be the world standard because it is the world standard.
Think
June 15, 2011
IBM is celebrating its 100th year as a business and for that I congratulate them. Consequently, IBM is getting a bit more press and we can gain insight into how they accomplished such a feat. Last Sunday on CBS Sunday Morning one of the feature stories covered IBM and its history. Most of us are aware of IBM’s start as a developer of mechanical machines for tabulating things and money.
Pork and Beans, Frost and Sullivan
June 13, 2011
Cooking seemed a little light this weekend until I thought through everything I made. Friday was Buffalo wings with a habanero Roquefort cheese sauce and curly fries seasoned with sea salt, black pepper and freshly grated Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese. Saturday, I made a sausage mixture of breakfast sausage, sweet Italian sausage and various spices. The mixture was then encased in a woven mat of bacon.
IPv6 and the Yottabyte
June 10, 2011
By now most of you know that Wednesday was World IPv6 Day. Altogether, 434 websites, universities, technology companies and service providers shared their content over IPv6. After a collective pause and one-eyed peaking, they learned that IPv6 and IPv4 could indeed share today’s Internet. The group tested three major elements: pure IPv6 communications, embedded IPv6 inside IPv4, and embedded IPv4 inside IPv6. All of it necessary because, it will take more than a decade to transition from IPv4 to IPv6.
