Archive for July 21st, 2008
ITEXPO 90% Sold Out - IP Communications industry looks strong
ITEXPO is still two months away (September 16-18, 2008 — Los Angeles, CA) yet Rich reports that the exhibit booth space is already 90% sold out. Rich is pretty excited when he writes, “There has been more interest in ITEXPO Fall 2008, Los Angeles, CA September 16-18 than any other Internet Telephony Conference & Expo I can remember in recent years.” At first I thought perhaps Rich is being a bit too exuberant. After all, one well-known communications show (VON) faltered t...
CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4 — Gettin’ Better All the Time …
We get all excited about Adobe PhotoShop and the suite of related products that make it such a great graphics program, but there are other solid choices out there for you to take into consideration. CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4 is at the top of that list! Drawing on its years of expertise, CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4 delivers all the essential tools for today’s busy designer. You can do whatever you need to do — create illustrations, logos, brochures, newsletters, flyers, signs, Web...
Controlling Asterisk based on Microsoft OCS 2007 user’s presence
Paul Adams contacted me recently since he’s been reading my posts about Asterisk and ‘Microsoft OCS 2007′ integration. Paul wrote an interesting application that enables call queuing that ‘respects’ OCS presence. That is, if the agent’s OCS status is “Busy”, “Away” or “Do not Disturb”, don’t send them a call from the call queue. Leveraging Asterisk.NET & the Microsoft OCS development tools - in C# (Visual St...
Will the FCC Play Lollapalooza?
As the debate rages over who can access the white spaces between licensed digital television spectrum, the Federal Communications Commission itself has emerged as a hot ticket. Everyone from the NFL to Lollapalooza is clamoring to have its events be used as a staging ground by the agency for the testing of devices aimed at utilizing portions of the DTV spectrum for wireless Internet access. The FCC has said it will test interference of the white space devices in 10 geographic locations or build...
Plumble Ad Sponsored “Free” Calls
You remember Pudding Media, right? They offered ad sponsored phone calls in exchange for “listening” in on your phone conversations so it could target audio ads. Pudding Media essentially leverages keyword wordspotting using speech recognition. Well, today, I learned about Plumble from Telecom Monthly. The article seems giddy with what it thinks is some new revelation… Once in a blue moon, a new product comes along with an idea so obvious that you just want to slap your forehe...
How To Lose Your Company
From an article on “net-top” computers in today’s New York Times: “‘We’re sitting on the sidelines not because we’re lazy. We’re sitting on the sidelines because even if this category takes off, and we get our piece of the pie, it doesn’t add up,’ said Paul Moore, senior director of mobile product management for Fujitsu. ‘It’s a product that essentially has no margin.’” No one can blame Fujitsu for wanting to ...
Is iPhone The New Gaming Platform?
Last July, at the time of the launch of the new iPhone, we asked the question, where are the iPhone games? Looks like we have an answer: they are coming, and in a big way. Of course, you can already buy Tetris and grab Tap Tap Revenge, the No. 1 free app, for, well, free, but the big commercial games are going to be hitting the iTunes App store soon, according to news coming out of the E3 game conference down in LA. As BusinessWeek points out, Apple made a big splashdown at E3 without even cloc...
Unified Communications - is it Happening? Sheryl and Ken Have the Answer Tonight
This is one of those one-thing-leads-to-another posts. I’ll start at the beginning, then work up the action item, and why you should tune in to Sheryl and Ken’s Stardust Radio program - tonight at 9pm EST - to dispel the “myths” of Unified Communications. Here we go… On July 9, fellow industry watcher Carl Weinschenk had a thought-provoking post on his IT-Finance Connection portal about “the case against VoIP”. That should get your attention, right? Carl...
Unified Communications - is is Happening? Sheryl and Ken Have the Answer Tonight
This is one of those one-thing-leads-to-another posts. I’ll start at the beginning, then work up the action item, and why you should tune in to Sheryl and Ken’s Stardust Radio program - tonight at 9pm EST - to dispel the “myths” of Unified Communications. Here we go… On July 9, fellow industry watcher Carl Weinschenk had a thought-provoking post on his IT-Finance Connection portal about “the case against VoIP”. That should get your attention, right? Carl...
The Battle Over Your TV
If you were thinking of starting a set-top box company that delivers video content to the TV, let me stop you right there. There are already numerous players vying to dominate your digital entertainment future, and three of them are big names that you already know. Those three are also well-funded, well-equipped, and well on their way to becoming the center of your home video universe. Amazon: The e-tailing giant just announced its new Video on Demand service, which will stream 40,000 movie ...
Do you know where youre going to?
Do you know where you’re going to? Do you like the things that life is showing you Where are you going to? Do you know…? - M. Masser/G. Goffin (Theme from Mahogony ) — At least once a year, you might want to make the time to take inventory in where you are, what you are doing and where you think your are going. If your life had a built-in GPS, you might want to turn it on and see where on your life map you are. While sometimes it may feel like we are on the road to nowh...
New Facebook: Does it Matter?
Hey look, Facebook has a new look - sort of like adding a new coat of paint after seeing what the neighbours (aka Friendster) are doing. There’s nothing wrong with spiffing up the place but is it going to make much of a difference? I mean, Facebook is now what it is - an interesting service but no longer the compelling entity it was a year ago. This is due to a combination of strategic mistakes, new players and the novelty factor wearing off. Then again, I tried to leave Facebook recently ...
Yahoo Keeps its Enemies Closer
Jerry Yang, Yahoo’s CEO, may be learning something about the hard-driving style of management it takes to go it alone after an attempted takeover, especially if he follows Om’s logic and thinks Yahoo is about more than search. This morning, Yahoo said it will allow corporate raider Carl Icahn three seats on a newly expanded Yahoo board in an effort to settle the disagreement that is taking up so much of the web portal’s attention this summer. This ends the proxy battle, and Ya...
Fox Creating Social Media Empire
Within Toronto’s tech community, Maggie Fox is widely recognized for being one of the social media gurus. Her company, Social Media Group, has established itself as one of the leading consulting firms, highlighted by its relationship with Ford Motor Co. With so much happening on the social media front, it is not surprising to see Maggie and SMG make a bold move by signing a letter of intent to purchase Washington-based Livingstone Communications. This will expand SMG to 20 people, and mak...
iPhone. Do I, don’t I ?
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Skype market research: Exactly how much may we torture you for a free call to a business?
Sue Bailey at TameBay saw a Skype survey that asked about ad sponsored SkypeOut calling. "Skype is thinking of playing a sponsored voice message just before making your call. Could you indicate for each sponsored message duration to what extent this would bother you?" Durations: <5 seconds, 5-7, 8-10, 11-15, 16-20, 20-25, 25-30. Degrees of pain: "I would find this so annoying I would not use this service" "I would find this annoying, but would use this servic...
S3 Outage Highlights Fragility of Web Services
Amazon’s S3 cloud storage service went offline this morning for an extended period of time — the second big outage at the service this year. In February, Amazon suffered a major outage that knocked many of its customers offline. It was no different this time around. I first learned about today’s outage when avatars and photos (stored on S3) used by Twinkle, a Twitter-client for iPhone, vanished. My big hope was that it would come back soon, but popular S3 clients such as SmugMug w...
Quote of Note: Nouri al-Maliki
“[US troops should leave Iraq a]s soon as possible, as far as we’re concerned. U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama talks about 16 months. That, we think, would be the right timeframe for a withdrawal, with the possibility of slight changes.” Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, in interview with Der Spiegel July 19. [link] Technorati Tags: Bushco, Iraq, Obama, Occupation, Oil, Press, QuoteOfNote, War ...
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