{"id":6691,"date":"2008-03-23T21:00:18","date_gmt":"2008-03-23T21:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/plantronics-doing-something-big.html"},"modified":"2008-03-23T21:00:18","modified_gmt":"2008-03-23T21:00:18","slug":"plantronics-doing-something-big","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/apple\/plantronics-doing-something-big.html","title":{"rendered":"Plantronics Doing Something Big"},"content":{"rendered":"

Plantronics is planning something big. I have discussed <\/a>this before and they are staying pretty quiet about what they are working on. Moreover whatever they are doing has been in development for over a year and they aren’t close enough to a launch to even drop serious hints.<\/p>\n

Two things I do know is they want to be big in CEBP space and they are also looking to extend the headset paradigm.<\/p>\n

It is tough to know what they have up there sleeves but the only hint I have is that when I asked if they are looking to add a heads up display to the headset, they say they did consider this idea but decided against it.<\/p>\n

So I can only conclude they will be getting more deeply into the mobile device market. I suppose there is room for the company in the space occupied by Polycom. Remember that last year they denied <\/a>this was the case. They could make desksets and handsets but they could go one step further and add speech rec and a layer of middleware allowing the merging of mobile and fixed line phones.<\/p>\n

One immediate need the company could fill would be to GPS-enable their headsets or at least make them the center of presence dissemination. Perhaps the company has a new presence standard where their headsets will send this info to UC servers?<\/p>\n

Going out on a limb, I would imagine the company could be looking at Apple and perhaps they want to come out with an iPhone-like device which is more UC-enabled?<\/p>\n

I have never had a company sort of hint at a new product launch for over a year and I am certainly on the edge of my seat. If you know anything about what is going on or even some ideas of what they should do, feel free to drop me a line.<\/p>\n

In the mean time the company has a new wideband headset in beta which supports Microsoft OCS and should make for a great review in the near future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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