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Mary Meeker's Internet Trends 2013
Mary Meeker presented her 2013 Internet Trends at the D11 conference. Every thing is increasing fast - due to smartphones, tablets and apps like Facebook, Instagram, Dropcam, Soundcloud, Waze, et al. Jawbone UP and Nike+ plus wearable technology are...
Vidtel Makes WebRTC Available with MeetMe
WebRTC is an open-source application interface that allows real-time services like voice, video, and data sharing to work within a web browser. Vidtel's MeetMe and Gateway services both natively support WebRTC, empowering businesses to utilize video conferencing in entirely new...
SubOut is the Best of What Cloud has to Offer
The transportation industry is more efficient due to a new start-up that launched. SubOut.com is a subscription-based communications exchange enabling transportation companies to source business, buy and sell parts, and streamline subcontracting via a secure, easy-to-use interface accessible from...
Moves by AT&T
"An industry executive argues that service providers face becoming "irrelevant" to consumers, though it might be unusual to hear it said in public," writes Gary Kim. It is the same argument - dumb pipe versus value added reseller.While VZ and...
Mobile Apps Are Not News
Received yet another handful of press releases centered around mobility. Mainly it was about a new Android or iPhone app for UC. This is NOT news! Seriously. The desk phone is being replaced by mobile devices for knowledge workers and...
Cloud Will Be About Integration
John Zanni, Vice President of Service Provider Marketing and Alliances at Parallels, spoke at the 6th TCA Channel Chief Summit in Orlando. Zanni presented on studies that Parallels has conducted globally about the SMB space and cloud services. That data...
iPad, MDM and Other News
Bandwidth.com bought DASH Carrier Services and renamed it inetwork. Apparently, inetwork is doing gangbusters in the wholesale VoIP space, the largest arbitrage space left, I would imagine. It's the new LD. inetwork offers origination, termination, e-911, SMS and toll-free. The...
A Fun Chat with VAR Dynamics
It started out coincidentally as VAR Dynamics CEO, Tony Francisco, was on my plane this morning. And he just recently moved from Silicon Valley to Tampa Bay, where I live. He is working with Gazelle Labs and spoke at BarCamp...
It's a Mobile Monday
It's a mobile Monday as I get set to pack up to head to ITEXPO East 2012 in Miami Beach. Yahoo was being Yahoo this morning as it announced - in the same breath - that it has launched a...
Cell Phones Offer No Privacy
Beyond the fact that radio frequencies can be listened to with Radio Shack parts - I’m not even talking NSA spycraft here - two reports out this week show that malware is present and accounted for on cell phones. Awesome,...
Can I Have Siri Without the iPhone?
In this TMC article, Tammy Wolf writes about a few hot tech trends. This one is surprising.The iPhone 4S’ Siri and IVR technology: One of the most talked-about features on the all-new iPhone 4S, the virtual assistant application Siri makes...
EarthLink Buys Some Synergy
EarthLink is buying two divisions from Synergy Global Solutions: its IT Solution Center, a 24-7 help desk and network operations center, and its cloud-hosted application business, according to Buffalo News.EarthLink gets relationships with about 120 VAR’s that laready sell the...
How Do You Make it Rain in the Cloud?
Here at Microcorp's One-on-One event, I moderated a panel this morning about various cloud services with Level3 (CDN), Cbeyond (Virtual Servers), Intercall (Microsoft 365/Linc), EarthLink (Security), and PAETEC (Visual Messaging). It's an eclectic mix, but that should tell you that...
The Sprint Rumor Mill
We all know that Sprint is finally getting the iPhone - the 4S, not the 5. Is that really so terrible? apparently, Sprint had to guarantee $20B worth of iPhones - about 30 million phones over 4 years. Depending on...
Lessons in the Cloud
One of the great lessons in the Cloud is how do you sell it?It all comes down to the messaging (marketing or story you are telling) and the sales approach (or technique). Sitting with Jeff Uphues of Cbeyond Cloud today...
4 Notes About CRM
I get asked often about CRM systems for sales teams. (I should I train salespeople and help hire salespeople.) Here are a few thoughts about CRM. One, it's only effective if the sales team actually uses it. Most sales stars...
What You Can Learn from Blackberry
An employee of Blackberry published an open letter to the co-CEO's on the web [see it here]. There are lessons for all in this letter.1) It's all about the USER Experience. The people buying your product / service are the...
It's Getting Out of Hand
There was a big bruha over Apple's iPhone spying on its users. Now Tom Tom discloses that it provides data for public works, supposedly for traffic, but also about your speed. Nice. Buy a Tom Tom and they rat you...
Call Us Customer Experience
During our second conversation with Dean Parker, CEO of Callis, we talk about the exciting things happening at this Mobile, Alabama based Cloud Communications company, including the hiring of a new CTO from Deltacom and the release of a new cloud...
VARs are Replacing Agents
In an article in Channel Partners magazine, Master Agents discuss how all their future growth will come from VAR's. Carriers are chasing VAR's for any growth in Channel numbers. Where does that leave the Agents?Well, Agents can partner with VAR's...
Progressive Mobile Tracker
Image via Wikipedia Progressive is pushing out an automobile tracker device called Snapshot. The device attaches to your car's diagnostic port and pushes data out via M2M. Consumers can log on to check out daily stats.With Snapshot, Progressive’s Pay As You...
ATTB2B
This is what Ma Bell is pushing through sales channels: · Hosting & Cloud Services· Application Services for Small Business· Mobile Applications· Small Business Bundles· Unified CommunicationsNotice what is missing? Internet Access, Voice, WAN. Welcome to the end of the PSTN....
8 Questions for Cloud Providers
I've done a couple of webinars lately for VAR's and Agents about the Cloud. I think that between SAAS and Cloud, vendors are forgetting that they are selling applications. I think the disconnect right now is that Agents aren't comfortable...
Not a Cloud in the Sky - Clear Sailing for M&A
The headline is goofy. I know. But another acquisition happened. Windstream grabbed some hosting.We saw Cbeyond’s purchase of both Aretta Communications and MaximumASP for what appears to be 3.5x anual revenue today. (Cbeyond will pay at most $40M for almost...
I Cannot Keep Up. CBEY Maxes Cloud
Cbeyond, Inc. (NASDAQ: CBEY), a leading provider of IT and communications services to 55,000 small businesses across the country, today announced that it has acquired the assets of privately held MaximumASP and its affiliated companies, as well as the outstanding...
