Image via CrunchBase Just as we’re seeing Over the Top (OTT) in voice and data service impacting the legacy mobile operators and telcos, there’s also a movement afoot thats going to challenge the legacy video conferencing providers like BT, Verizon, Glowpoint (I’m a shareholder) and the rest who have been in the business of white glove video conferncing services, operating exchanges or hosting bridging services. Yesterday pal Larry Lisser, who is known in the telecom industry as the person to go to to revive sales, penned a post supportive of disruptive Silicon Valley startup, Vidtel (a Comunicano client) who are…

In October of 2011, AIIM (the Association for Information & Imaging Management, a non-profit research, community and educational association), published a [...]

If you haven’t read pal Martin Geddes latest post on the Future of Communications entitled Peak Telecom, you are missing something that is likely either something you have likely said, thought, heard someone say in private or really wished you had. It’s a stunningly brilliant piece of writing that leads you to wonder, “what is Martin going to say next” as you read through it. This post is every bit as important as Alec Saunders 2005 post entitled The Voice 2.0 Manifesto in my opinion as far as laying things out or the famed Pulver Purple Minutes post. It is…

There’s one reason I’m excited about IT Expo. It’s called Startup Camp. Startup Camp is perhaps the most relevant example of what is really happening in the telecom and tech world today at the twice annual confernence. For the past four StartUpCamp they have had standing room only crowds, and key speakers iincluding startup luminaries and legends Craig Walker (GrandCentral), Bob Metcalf (father of Ethernet, 3COM), Jamie Siminoff (Simulscribe, Unsubscibe) and Jeff Bonforte (Gizmo, Yahoo Voice, Xobni). This year will have Sir Terry Matthews (NewBridge Networks, Mitel) as the keynote offering a neat perspective from years of experience nurturing and…

It is no secret that alternative communication devices including tablets are taking a big chunk of the market away from [...]

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Instead of putting a small group of experts in a room and not letting them out until they agree, Baseline Magazine does an annual survey of business and technology managers to ask about their organizations’ investments, plans, and strategies. Across several hundred respondents, patterns evolve. Whoever these people are, coming from the desk I use, I like the way they (and their companies) think.

Image via Wikipedia Ok. In my rush to pack for a trip to Cartagena, Columbia for a wedding I forgot to pack my SIM cutter. That meant the ease of finding a micro SIM for the iPhone and iPad would make it an adventure and given I wanted more rest than work these few days before the upcoming trade show and conference onslaught–three in four weeks in February for me, I decided to leave the i devices in the safe or use them on WiFi. Instead I used the Smsung Google Nexus that’s pentaband and workes very well on Telefonica’s…

Image via CrunchBase Yesterday eWeek broke the news about CounterPath and Vidtel announcing interoperability between Bria softphones, including the recently released iPhone client, and Vidtel’s MeetMe service. Jim Courtney, who authors VoiceOnTheWeb.biz has been testing Bria and Vidtel for a few weeks chimed in as did the folks over at OnSip.com. In each case effusive with praise came to mind. Like Jim I’ve been using the combination as far back as the beta builds of Bria for iPhone with Video started to circulate having similar high-quality experiences as both Jim and the OnSip folks saw. What excites me though is…

I now know how famed Parisian, well actually worldwide, chef Guy Savoy felt when he earned his first every three stars and broke down and cried. I felt the same way this morning after former client and friend Ray Haddow of Nokia forwarded me a link to the first ever review of the 2009 Comunicano Wine Company “Double AA” Cuvee, a wine that was first poured at the 2010 IT Expo in Los Angeles, back in 2010 just after it was bottled. Boy has this wine grown up, and it keeps growing. To my dear friends I wrote a short…