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Longview IoT Boosts Energy and Wireless Efficiency

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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Hallmark's Simple, Inexpensive Way to Boost Customer Satisfaction

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

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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IGEL Advances Future of Work

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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Tata Communications and Cisco Collaborate on SD-WAN

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

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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Extreme Elements Enables The Autonomous Enterprise

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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IBM, Mitel, Wearable Tech round out Latest ITEXPO News

January 29, 2015

Its been an amazing ITEXPO so far - wow. In case you missed some of the happenings from day 1, here are the articles written by our Content Boost team. Enjoy! Also, here is some news from the preconference day.

Finally, there are some photos from the event as well to give you more flavor.

IBM's Gurvinder Ahluwalia Talks Overcoming IoT Challenges at ITEXPO Keynote Introducing weBoost: New Identity, Name but Same Core Products Is Wearable Technology Headed for the Enterprise? ITEXPO Panelists Discuss What's in a Brand ITEXPO Oracle Keynoter Talks Vendor, Enterprise Customer Relationships Panamax Helps Make Money Mobile Fiber Mountain CEO Talks Future of Network Architecture What's Worse Than Being Hacked?



ITEXPO Miami 2015 Preconference News

January 28, 2015

Regardless of whether you made it to ITEXPO in Miami or not - these are some of the important happenings at the show produced by the team at TMC's Content Boost dicision which provides news, white papers and more for companies in every industry. Hope you find them useful.

Speakers Discuss Content Marketing From the Ground Up at ITEXPO   Content Boost Returns for Content Marketing Workshops at ITEXPO 2015   Sangoma Stops by ITEXPO 2015 to Discuss Its New Strategic Acquisitions   Dog Hunter Sees IoT Use Cases Expanding in Years to Come     Pitch and Pivot Founder Lobbies for New VoIP Messaging     SimpleWAN Turns Focus to Security         Dialogic Predicts 2015 Tech Trends         A Powerful Trio: PLC International, XmarteK and HiperPBX Talk M2M, VoIP at ITEXPO Vertical Talks CRMLink, UC with TMCnet at ITEXPO      

ITEXPO Miami 2015 Preconference News

January 28, 2015

Regardless of whether you made it to ITEXPO in Miami or not - these are some of the important happenings at the show producted by the team at TMC's Content Boost dicision which provides news, white papers and more for companies in every industry. Hope you find them useful.

Speakers Discuss Content Marketing From the Ground Up at ITEXPO   Content Boost Returns for Content Marketing Workshops at ITEXPO 2015   Sangoma Stops by ITEXPO 2015 to Discuss Its New Strategic Acquisitions   Dog Hunter Sees IoT Use Cases Expanding in Years to Come     Pitch and Pivot Founder Lobbies for New VoIP Messaging     SimpleWAN Turns Focus to Security         Dialogic Predicts 2015 Tech Trends         A Powerful Trio: PLC International, XmarteK and HiperPBX Talk M2M, VoIP at ITEXPO Vertical Talks CRMLink, UC with TMCnet at ITEXPO      

Jeff Pulver, Andy Abramson, Craig Walker, Alon Cohen, Mike Tribolet, Andy Voss and Danny Windham at ITEXPO Next Week

January 19, 2015

Panel to celebrate 20 years of IP communications/VoIP and discuss its future.





Next week at the 29th ITEXPO, I get the pleasure of moderating a panel with some super heavy hitters in the world of communications.

Craig Walker is the man behind Dialpad Communications – the dotcom sensation as well as GrandCentral Communications and UberConference. Basically, he was responsible for the communications systems Yahoo! and Google provide us today and more.

Jeff Pulver, Andy Abramson, Craig Walker, Alon Cohen, Mike Tribolet, Andy Voss and Danny Windham at ITEXPO Next Week

January 19, 2015

Panel to celebrate 20 years of IP communications/VoIP and discuss its future.





Next week at the 30th ITEXPO (wow!), I get the pleasure of moderating a panel with some super heavy hitters in the world of communications.

Craig Walker is the man behind Dialpad Communications – the dotcom sensation as well as GrandCentral Communications and UberConference. Basically, he was responsible for the communications systems Yahoo! and Google provide us today and more.

ITEXPO 2014 Las Vegas Last Day Stories

August 14, 2014

ITEXPO 2014 in Las Vegas is going amazingly well (photos) - thanks for your support. Yesterday I shared many of the stories our Content Boost team wrote. Here are the latest happenings from that same team to keep you up to date:

ITEXPO Attendees Reminded of the Importance of a Compelling Social Media Strategy Imerjn: Riding the New Wave of Customized Cloud Solutions AARP CIO Takes Center Stage at ITEXPO West 2014 The Next Generation of Technology is Coming: Is Your Organization Ready? Three Best Practices for Building a Network DevOps for SDN, NFV The Ultimate Software Race: How Can Providers Reach the Finish Line? BlueOSS Reveals New Cost Reconciliation Capability at ITEXPO 2014 American Cancer Society CIO Keynote: 'The Walls of IT Had to Come Down' Six Key Benefits of WebRTC That You Need to Know Myers Sees WebRTC as Future for TeleSpeak Panelists Take a Hard Look at What Customer Engagement Means Today ACS CIO Ferro Talks Culture and its Role in IT Improvements Aruba Networks Tackles Enterprise Mobility, BYOD Challenges What's The Big Deal With WebRTC? Speaker Offers Six-Pronged Primer on the Technology

ITEXPO 2014 Las Vegas Last Day Stories

August 14, 2014

ITEXPO 2014 in Las Vegas is going amazingly well (photos) - thanks for your support. Yesterday I shared many of the stories our Content Boost team wrote. Here are the latest happenings from that same team to keep you up to date:

ITEXPO Attendees Reminded of the Importance of a Compelling Social Media Strategy Imerjn: Riding the New Wave of Customized Cloud Solutions AARP CIO Takes Center Stage at ITEXPO West 2014 The Next Generation of Technology is Coming: Is Your Organization Ready? Three Best Practices for Building a Network DevOps for SDN, NFV The Ultimate Software Race: How Can Providers Reach the Finish Line? BlueOSS Reveals New Cost Reconciliation Capability at ITEXPO 2014 American Cancer Society CIO Keynote: 'The Walls of IT Had to Come Down' Six Key Benefits of WebRTC That You Need to Know Myers Sees WebRTC as Future for TeleSpeak Panelists Take a Hard Look at What Customer Engagement Means Today ACS CIO Ferro Talks Culture and its Role in IT Improvements Aruba Networks Tackles Enterprise Mobility, BYOD Challenges What's The Big Deal With WebRTC? Speaker Offers Six-Pronged Primer on the Technology

How to Get AT&T to Fund Your IoT Idea

July 31, 2014


IoT and M2M developers - here is some exciting news.

It Isn't that often that you can develop something for what is supposed to be one of the largest market opportunities ever and at the same time get the support of a major telecom carrier. Oh, and I almost forgot to mention you could also get $5,000 in the process and a Samsung tablet.

Fast Pitch sponsored by AT&T takes place Wednesday, August 13, from 2pm-4pm in Las Vegas at M2M Evolution which is collocated with ITEXPO.

AT&T judges will listen to three minute pitches at booth 601. Two winners will be chosen to receive $5,000, a Samsung Tablet, and invaluable feedback from the company. There will be a judges choice winner and an audience choice winner.  





How to Get AT&T to Fund Your IoT Idea

July 31, 2014


IoT and M2M developers - here is some exciting news.

It Isn't that often that you can develop something for what is supposed to be one of the largest market opportunities ever and at the same time get the support of a major telecom carrier. Oh, and I almost forgot to mention you could also get $5,000 in the process and a Samsung tablet.

Fast Pitch sponsored by AT&T takes place Wednesday, August 13, from 2pm-4pm in Las Vegas at M2M Evolution which is collocated with ITEXPO.

AT&T judges will listen to three minute pitches at booth 601. Two winners will be chosen to receive $5,000, a Samsung Tablet, and invaluable feedback from the company. There will be a judges choice winner and an audience choice winner.  





The PBX Squeeze and How You'll Benefit

July 3, 2014

The following diagram is borrowed from the substantial cranial database of TMC partner in WebRTC Expo and UC University, Phil Edholm who was a major tech driver at Nortel and Avaya for decades. It was modified a bit by me.



The state of the PBX market can be summed up by this chart showing existing vendors getting squeezed between Microsoft coming from the OS down, Cisco coming from the router out and cloud and open-source coming from the bottom up in terms of pricing. In short, it is a tough time to be a PBX vendor.