Suzanne Bowen
32 yrs experience in telecom, teaching, blog & grant writing, biz development, marketing, communications & public relations. My favorite pastimes are spending time w/ family & friends, my career, the industry, running, traveling.
| 1. "Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition..." Barack Obama .....
2. "One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain." By Thomas Sowell
Comcast Skype on Xfinity $9.95/month - Lame or Cool?
Comcast today unveiled their Skype video calling service, Skype on Xfinity which directly integrates into your HDTV. The beauty of the system...
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Kodak's Ofoto Another Flickr-Like Disappointment
This past March it was announced that as part of Kodak's restructuring, the online photo-sharing site ofoto or Kodak Photo Gallery...
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Real, Live Video Conferencing of Smart Devices on LTE, WiFi and 3G
Last week at CTIA, during a scheduled press conference on May 8th at 11:00AM, Dialogic demonstrated the future of video conferencing...
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Plixer Scrutinizer Network Traffic Analyzer Preview
I've been testing Plixer Scrutinizer, a network traffic analyzer product for several weeks now. It's a great product that supports NetFlow used...
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A New Conversation Experience: Alcatel-Lucent's 4G Consumer Communications Solution
Beecher Tuttle
Subscriber demand for more innovative, bandwidth-hungry services has driven most every service provider to build a 4G LTE network capable of providing greater capacity, reduced latency and improved pricing. But to unlock the power of a 4G LTE investment – and to continue to deliver revenue-generating voice and messaging services – carriers must look to embrace Voice over LTE (VoLTE), a core component for a new set of rich media and collaboration services that also enables operators to deliver voice without having to rely on legacy 2G/3G networks.
In short, VoLTE helps service providers capitalize on their new 4G investments. VoLTE enables operators to offload legacy infrastructure and to deliver data simultaneously with crisp HD voice. By blending mobile voice with video, converged IP messaging, the web and social networking, service providers can create new revenue-generating communication services that differentiate them from competitors. The technology is also proven to harmonize conversations across disparate providers, devices and apps.
But perhaps more than anything, VoLTE provides operators with the flexibility to respond to ever-changing technologies, market conditions and user demands. The competitive freedoms of VoLTE allow operators to experiment with and deliver new communication features for broad markets and even strategic industries like mobile healthcare.
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Netflix Temporarily Offline? On Movie Night? Ahhhh!
Oh joy - was checking my Netflix DVD queue to see if any interesting movies to stream as well as which ones...
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Telefonica Launches Skype Competitor Tu Me
Telefónica today launched a new mobile app called Tu Me, which essentially takes the approach if you can't beat Skype, join em'....
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Viber Announces BlackBerry Beta and Windows Phone 7 Beta
Viber today announced the availability of Viber for BlackBerry Beta and Windows Phone 7 Beta.Both Viber for BlackBerry Beta and Viber...
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Nokia City Lens Augmented Reality Launches on Lumia Phones
Nokia today released its City Lens app for Windows Phone, an app that is an augmented reality browser. Users open the app,...
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Big Mac versus Hamburger
When selling Hosted PBX and other unified communications, it's a lot like giving someone a Big Mac. Extra sauce, more calories, cheese...
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Ultrabooks Finally Get Needed Attention From Intel
Intel is running a new ad touting the long-lasting Ultrabook which has hours of battery life. And while I applaud Intel for...
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Ooma Telo Review
Back in 2007 I wrote an article "Ooma goes Booma" because Ooma's claim-to-fame feature was that it worked by 'sharing' your PSTN...
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Skype Aware of IP Security Flaw Back in 2010
Some more interesting information has come to light regarding the IP revealing security flaw in Skype. Researchers from Inria, a research institute...
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Avengers Tech and Toys Assembled
Let’s face it, superheroes are pretty cool and aside from Batman and a few others, most of them are low tech. Try...
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Is it Cloud versus Agents?
Is it Cloud versus Agents?As an Agent, I sell bandwidth and transport almost exclusively. I am learning that the Channel does not...
Full Story »ShowStoppers @ CTIA Provides Close Up of Hertz's NeverLost
May 17, 2012Even businesses who do the best in monetizing IP communications need ways to save time and effort. Even in an age where many of us use video and voice over IP at a desk a majority of the time, tools that help us manage our time on the road are a winner. Hertz exhibited its NeverLost Systems the Monday night before International CTIA Wireless 2012 began, and what a great way to kick it off!
Hertz's NeverLost enables customers to plan trips online and access them from the program in their Hertz rental car. Graham Weedon gives a live demonstration in this video during Showstoppers @ CTIA Wireless 2012 for a media team of Techistan magazine editor, AstraQom and DIDX podcasters, as well as a CED blogger and TMCnet blogger.
Set up travel and visit routes to enjoy by foot or car.
Ruth Bridger Enjoys Kindle Fire She Won at ITEXPO Women's Breakfast
April 3, 2012
Ruth Bridger, VP of marketing at xorcom.com won this Kindle Fire at the ITEXPO East 2012 Women in Telecom and Technology Breakfast. You can get your own Kindle Fire, too. Great for traveling, plus it makes a great gift. Carrie Schmelkin wrote a great review of the Breakfast where Ruth won the Amazon tablet.
Feel free to listen to Ruth Bridger discuss Xorcom, social media use for business, and telecommunications services. Just click the link from Mr. Tehrani's blog at http://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/rich-tehrani/open-source/didx-reseller-podcast-with-xorcom.html.
Feel free to listen to Ruth Bridger discuss Xorcom, social media use for business, and telecommunications services. Just click the link from Mr. Tehrani's blog at http://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/rich-tehrani/open-source/didx-reseller-podcast-with-xorcom.html.
Kindle Fire Book Sauder Diaries Written by IP Communications Monetizer
March 20, 2012
I have a secret. Open source geeks do sometimes monetize IP communications, and when they do it well, geeks and non-geeks benefit. Michel Vaillancourt is one of those.
He is the CEO of JKL5 Group who offer innovative telephony services, but he is also a steampunk book genre author.
He is the CEO of JKL5 Group who offer innovative telephony services, but he is also a steampunk book genre author.
ThingWorx CEO Russell Fadel on M2M and the Connected World
March 12, 2012
Last weekend my three-year-old grandson and six-year-old granddaughter helped me complete a CSI face reconstruction kit. Afterward, Simon held up a pan in front of his own face and asked the finished kit, "Why don't you talk to me, Mr. Face?"
His request was not such a silly one. That is what M2M does. It assists things to talk to each other.
His request was not such a silly one. That is what M2M does. It assists things to talk to each other.
Who Thought of the New Popular Intellectual Property Conference for ITEXPO?
March 9, 2012How many times have you thought of a better way of doing something, but you were afraid to rock the boat, especially if you are not the boss? Who gets made fun of the most? Those who speak up or those who are quiet? Taking a chance is something I am notorious for.
Monetizing IP Communications May Take Some Special Tweeting
March 7, 2012LisaMarieDias's blog post "Who to Follow, and Not to Follow, on Twitter – That is the Question" caught my fancy because of what I agree with but even more so, what I don't agree with. The 51 comments she has received so far as just as controversial and thought-provoking as her original post. Twitter is used in serious manner for business, friendship, learning, teaching, collaborating, promotions and giveaways, newsfeed, video channel, photo gallery, comics, and more.
Lisa's Twitter workshop clients ask her how to get more Twitter followers, and she replies, "Who should you follow?"
She shares concern over following a bunch of people who just spam.
The Purchase of Rapportive by Linkedin was ...
February 29, 2012
How would you fill in that blank in the blog title? Shocking? Smart? Cool? Like why didn't Google buy Rapportive?
Negative Plus a Negative Equal a Positive
February 7, 2012
"Nobody doesn't like Sara Lee," says the Euro-American conglomerate that sells hundreds of different, well-loved, pre-packaged, sugary concoctions. This means that everyone likes Sara Lee. Maybe not, but that's a cool slogan. Sometimes a negative plus a negative equal a positive. Likewise, negative things happen to us online and offline in business, personal and social situations, whether in our social networks, on a business forum, or in our workplace.
Frank Talk on Telecom Fraud with Humbug Labs' Eric Klein
January 25, 2012
Eric Klein, the VP of sales and marketing at Humbug Labs,is the telecom fraud expert that we interviewed in a recent podcast, sponsored by DIDX and AstraQom. He is one of the brilliant presenters scheduled for ITEXPO East 2012, specifically the Asterisk World and Cloud Communications events. Look in the ITEXPO East 2012 visitors' bag for the Humbug Labs free white paper that describes the evolution of telecom fraud. It includes a free trial code of Humbug services.
Much like business issues regarding infringment of intellectual property that I discussed with Mark Terry, companies are not prepared to prevent or to deal with telecom fraud. Most are too embarrassed to ever admit to experts when they suffer either.
Much like business issues regarding infringment of intellectual property that I discussed with Mark Terry, companies are not prepared to prevent or to deal with telecom fraud. Most are too embarrassed to ever admit to experts when they suffer either.
Mark Terry, Esq. on Intellectual Property and Telecom Sourcing
January 25, 2012
Embarrassed that your company needs an intellectual property lawyer?
It is better to be embarrassed and still secure the services of a lawyer in cases where your company's intellectual property has been infringed upon or where your company has infringed upon another entity's intellectual property. After less than a twenty minute conversation with Mark Terry, a patent and trademark law attorney, I am convinced that there are thousands in the IP (Internet-Protocol) Communications industry who need to understand their legal rights and responsibilities in this area of law.
Readers are invited to listen to the recording of a conversation with Mark Terry, a recognized expert in patent and trademark law, Mark Terry is regularly featured in publications and journals.
The attorney is a presenter in three panels during ITEXPO East's SUITS conference which is all about .
It is better to be embarrassed and still secure the services of a lawyer in cases where your company's intellectual property has been infringed upon or where your company has infringed upon another entity's intellectual property. After less than a twenty minute conversation with Mark Terry, a patent and trademark law attorney, I am convinced that there are thousands in the IP (Internet-Protocol) Communications industry who need to understand their legal rights and responsibilities in this area of law.
Readers are invited to listen to the recording of a conversation with Mark Terry, a recognized expert in patent and trademark law, Mark Terry is regularly featured in publications and journals.
The attorney is a presenter in three panels during ITEXPO East's SUITS conference which is all about .
