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September 2011

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IT Expo West Turns Up the Heat

September 27, 2011

A couple of weeks ago, I attended the IT Expo event in Austin, Texas.  After many years of being in Los Angeles, the event organizers decided to move the venue to 102 degree heat.  It’s a dry heat though so it’s OK, right? 

Thrive with Communication Solutions

September 20, 2011



The increased capabilities of mobile networks, the increased capabilities of smartphones, and the increased availability of network based applications go hand in hand as revenue growth and ARPU growth engines.  However, it can be argued that of the three, network- based applications are the most important, because if there were no innovative or interesting applications, the networks would be acting simply as on-ramps to the internet.  And if the networks were just on-ramps to the internet, then they just act as pipes and you’d quickly get to pure commoditization.

PacketMan Re-Emerges

September 13, 2011

Back in 2002, before blogs, Twitter and Facebook, a key way to get your message across was to write articles.  I wrote a monthly article for many years for the famously yellow-colored Internet Telephony Magazine.  Things are a little different now – while there is still a yellow-colored Internet Telephony Magazine and there still is an IT Expo, TMC corporation, who runs both of those, now has a very, very large website, runs webinars, and hosts bloggers.  So the magazine is one of their properties as opposed to the main key property. 

Numbed by Analyst Research - What I Did on My Summer Vacation

September 6, 2011

I spent the summer engorged in analyst research.  It was all over my office.  It was in my briefcase.  It was on my computer and iPad.  It was in my head. 

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