{"id":4246,"date":"2006-02-23T18:32:49","date_gmt":"2006-02-23T18:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/radio-handi.html"},"modified":"2006-02-23T18:32:49","modified_gmt":"2006-02-23T18:32:49","slug":"radio-handi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/voip\/radio-handi.html","title":{"rendered":"Radio Handi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: \"><font size=\"2\">I have known Brian McConnell for a decade and he is one of the brightest guys in the telecom business. While others were kind of in shock that there was such a thing as a PC PBX market (before we even thought of IP PBXs) he was selling Altigen PC PBXs out of his house!<\/p>\n<p>This was in 1997!<\/p>\n<p>He subsequently sold his company to Hello Direct causing their stock to pop when the news was announced. This transaction took place in the bubble years.<\/p>\n<p>Brian was also a frequent writer for TMC\u2019s CTI publication and our archrival Computer Telephony. Remember them?<\/p>\n<p>Anyway he is now onto a new voice communities project and you know what a fan I am of <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/voip-blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/voip\/building-voice-communities.html\"><font size=\"2\">voice communities<\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\">. I have been meaning to cover his new company for a few weeks but after ITEXPO everything has been a blur and I have been playing catch up.<\/p>\n<p>So until I get a chance to properly delve into what Brian has done with his new product talk a gander at his <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oreillynet.com\/etel\/blog\/2006\/01\/phoning_it_in_from_etel_radio.html\"><font size=\"2\">blog<\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\"> on the topic.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have known Brian McConnell for a decade and he is one of the brightest guys in the telecom business. While others were kind of in shock that there was such a thing as a PC PBX market (before we even thought of IP PBXs) he was selling Altigen PC PBXs out of his house!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[191],"tags":[931,767,17],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4246"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}