Archive for September 17th, 2008
NewTeeVee NYC 2.0: Sept. 23
The NewTeeVee crew will be in New York next week for our second annual Big Apple edition of NewTeeVee Pier Screenings. Alongside Advertising Week, we’re showing a mix of viral online video ads, co-curated with the folks from Visible Measures. These events bring the online media crowd together in a fun and casual way, with plenty of beer and snacks available for your consumption. The evening is a joint production with the lively crew from NY Video 2.0 group. It will be held at NYU at 8:30 ...
Korea uses Skype for English training classes
According to Reuters, Skype has become an indispensable tool in teaching South Koreans to speak fluent English. Good English speaking skills are considered the key for success in South Korea. The article states,”On any given day, students ranging from kids learning their alphabet to adults preparing for job interviews sign in on their Internet messengers, fire up their webcams and wait for English teachers to appear — from faraway continents.” In fact, according to the article,...
Mobilize: Just 25 Tickets Left!
With one day left before our Mobilize conference is due to kick off, we have just 25 tickets left. If you’d like to hear keynotes speakers Padmasree Warrior, CTO of Cisco Systems, and Rich Miner, co-founder of Google’s Android platform, and many more industry experts discuss the future of mobile, act fast, as online ticket sales will close at 5 pm PT today. Other speakers include: Ian Freed, VP of Amazon Kindle, Amazon.com John Roese, CTO, Nortel. Fred Kitson, Corporate Vice President,...
Zeacom News
Zeacom, a provider of Unified Communications (UC) solutions for the small-to-medium sized business market, is showcasing its new Executive Mobile module at ITEXPO, which is part of Zeacom Communications Center (ZCC) 5.1. Claiming more than 2,500 enterprises worldwide, Executive Mobile gives end-users advanced UC functionality on their smart phone or other handheld device with support for Blackberry and Windows Mobile. Zeacom President, Ernie Wallerstein demo’ed the platform in the ITEXPO p...
Google, GE Join Up to Tackle Energy Policy & Tech
Search engine giant Google and conglomerate GE have announced a partnership to collaborate on energy policy and technology, including pushing for a smarter electricity grid, cleaner power generation and greener transportation. Initially the companies will work on policy to build out more electricity transmission lines that will connect renewable energy, as well as work on implementing smart grid technology. In terms of technology, they will start out by collaborating on enhanced geothermal and...
IT Expo Update I
At Andy’s wine dinner at Roy’s last night, the first wine was a 1999 Pinot Gris that was Excellent! And the first Pinot Noir (2001 Siltstone Oregon Pinot Noir from Oregon) was very good. Even the chardonnay was nice (and I am not a Chard guy). My panel this morning with Unity Business Networks, Telesphere Networks, and Aptela had a full room as we discussed deploying hosted PBX. The pitfalls and pain of the deployment. The stickiness too. Tags: IT EXPO, it expo west Related Entries...
RightScale Makes Multiple Clouds Work
As corporate giants get more interested in managing clouds, startups already in the sector are defending their turf and trying to make cloud computing more enterprise friendly. RightScale, a one-year-old startup that offers a management platform for Amazon’s Web Services said today that it now can offer the same management for clouds provided by GoGrid and FlexiScale. It also says it’s working with Rackspace to integrate information from the Mosso and F5 clouds. For enterprise custo...
Why Google Would Want to Buy Valve
Google’s rumored acquisition of game delivery network Valve — and it is, at this point, just a rumor — would give the search giant a robust platform for delivering, updating and charging for digital content. If true, it’s a smart move for Google, and one that should make content delivery firms nervous. It’s also a volley in the war between centralized and distributed computing. Paying for games with advertising is a growing business. Sites like Kongregate share a...
TMC IT Expo - Day 1
Just have time for quick note to say that the show has been great so far. The traffic will really pick up today, but most of my ilk were busy in the press room with meetings and briefings, so we had plenty to do. First off, I have to say that the caliber of press/media/analysts/pundits is very high, and TMC has done a great job of bringing lots of thought leaders and industry influencers together, which is very 2.0 or better in my books. Saw two very good keynotes yesterday, both of which contin...
VoIP is Dead, Long Live VoIP!
In case you missed Skype General Manager for Voice & Video Jonathan Christensen’s ITEXPO keynote, you can check out my mobile phone video phone recording here. In the keynote, Johnathan made a bold statement - “VoIP is dead”. Specifically Johnathan said, “The title of my talk is: ‘VoIP Is Dead.’ So, maybe a little bit of controversy about that, but as I said, let’s work through it.” TMCnet’s Michael Dinan has a good summary of the ke...
Microsoft Response Point Adds T1 Support and SIP Trunking Service Providers
Today at ITEXPO, Microsoft will announce a few more SIP trunking service providers that come pre-configured in the Response Point unit making it virtually plug-and-play when selecting a SIP trunking service provider. At ITEXPO Microsoft will announce they are adding NGT, Cbeyond, and Junction Networks. In addition they are also adding support for broadband VoIP service provider Packet8, as well as Bandwidth.com, a provider of Internet and managed services, including SIP trunking. ...
Josh Silverman
x Skype CEO Josh Silverman at the Skype Inn in San Jose, California, on 12 September 2008. tags: skype, joshsilverman Follow Phil Wolff on Twitter or FriendFeed or on Skype. ...
The End of Nortel?
Is the end in sight for Nortel? After announcing plans for even more restructuring, including the sale of its Metro Ethernet Network business, investors are bailing on Nortel - The stock is down 40%, or $2.14, to a all-time low of $3.15. It now trades at 2.4% of its record high, and sports a paltry market cap of $1.57-billion. The big question is whether Nortel’s struggles are specific to a company struggling to reinvent itself, of an indication the telecom equipment market is poised for d...
Cisco Betting Big on Buzzwords for Growth
Had I not been mired in preparing for our Mobilize 08 conference, which kicks off tomorrow, I would surely have attended Cisco’s analyst day, if only to find out how the company with some $40 billion in annual sales plans to keep growing in the face of a tighter global economy. What would have become immediately clear to me is that the company is betting on three buzzwords — video, collaboration and virtualization — to grow between 12 and 17 percent over the next few years. W...
Skype Journal Interviews Josh Silverman: The Way Ahead - Righting the Ship
This is the second in a series of posts resulting from in interview last Friday with Josh Silverman, Skype’s recently appointed President. In this post we talk about the key issues Josh found necessary to address and establishing a framework for employee motivation and empowerment. Over the past couple of years I have written many posts lauding Skype, largely for its conversation infrastructure technology; I have also, from time-to-time written posts about the need for Skype to address the...
Yuuguu desktop sharing becomes less dependent on Skype
In their latest update, as Yuuguu launches a browser-only flash client, they complete moving participant chat from Skype right into their screen sharing application. They can because they already have the people in a collaboration session. This adds value in two ways. First, it keeps the visual part of the conversation right in line of sight, without any application or contextual switching. Adjacency should improve user focus and overall satisfaction. Second, it reduces dependence on SkypeR...
Mobility – What’s Different?
Is mobility a new revolution, or is it just an extension of the previous PC and Internet revolutions? Is anything really different? I think a glance at the impact of the Kindle, the Dash Express, DriveCam and CardioNet quickly shows how the mobility difference is revolutionizing many unrelated industries. But before we rush to these ground-breaking devices, let’s stop and consider how technology revolutions truly drive change. Think back to the PC. What was different was local processing and ...
Introducing: Girls Teach Guys
I enjoy feeling the passion of entrepreneurs who dream about doing their own startup, especially when it is in a area I can understand and/or otherwise relate to. During the past couple of years, during my trips to Israel, I have met with quite a number of entrepreneurs and have made investments in a number of early-early stage startups. Earlier this year when I was in Tel Aviv and I met the co-founders of Girls Teach Guys, Amir Student and Lee Rivnay, I knew within the first three minutes of h...
Shop Drawings firm goes for Lypp and Response Point
One of our happy customers has just been asked by Microsoft if they would like to participate in a Case Study. The customer, a shop drawings firm specializing in CAD drawings for commercial glazing/glass projects (yes that is Safeco field you see there and yes they did extensive work on that project), was looking for a better phone system. True North Drafting was already using Lypp for Conference Calls but after hearing about Response Point they decided to take a demo system from us for a month...
How the Web Can Help You Fight Greenwashing
There’s been a wave of green goods crashing over our heads in recent months. But how confident are you really that the eco-friendly toothpaste (shampoo, notebook, chair, etc.) you bought was green enough to justify that much more of your hard-earned wages? Turns out the green marketing noise level has gotten so high, it’s ticking people off. Earlier this year, for example, the UK’s Advertising Standards Agency noted that in 2007 it received more than four times as many complaints abou...
Video Stream the ITEXPO Keynotes from earlier today
I live video streamed the ITEXPO keynotes from earlier today using my Windows Mobile 6.1 phone. But in case you missed it, I recorded the live video stream. Here’s a link to two video recordings I made for two keynotes: Skype’s Johnathan Christensen (2-3 minute filler in beginning so fast forward) Microsoft’s Xuedong Huang video quality isn’t the greatest. Will have to try and tweak it in the future. Though a lot of it has to do with the poor video camera built into the ...
Latest Service Provider Views - Making Voice a Killer App
Got a pretty full plate here at the IT Expo, and I’ll have a blog post and some photos coming about Day 1. Until then, my latest Service Provider Views column on TMCnet was published today, and with the Expo upon us, I think you’ll find it a good read. My focus here is what a couple of companies - Mobivox and Jajah - have been doing lately with voice activated services. I think it’s a great way for service providers to add value to voice without really doing much. The article w...
Reception at ITEXPO
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ITEXPO Setup
Exhibits setup going on at ITEXPO. Photo taken near front entrance.. Related Entries TrackBacks | Comments | Tag with del.icio.us | VoIP & Gadgets Blog Home | Permalink: ITEXPO Setup Copyright VoIP & Gadgets Blog ...
A Supercomputer for Everybody?
Microsoft and Cray are set to unveil the Cray CX1, a compact supercomputer running Windows HPC Server 2008. The pair is expected to tout the new offering as “the most affordable supercomputer Cray has ever offered,” with pricing starting at $25,000. (That is amazing!) The CX1 combines compute, storage and visualization in a single integrated system that’s designed for non-traditional environments like labs or offices. If space is a problem, not to worry, it’s compact en...
Time for a Netbook?
Small is cool, and smaller is even better! No doubt inspired by the drive to create the $100 laptop, netbooks (teeny, tiny laptops) have been coming on strong. The Aspire One (photo at left) and the Eee PC 1000 are popular options. This is a HOT segment right now. And you’re right that the little Atom chip from Intel is awesome. At 2W max power consumption (compared to something like 35W for a Core 2 Duo laptop chip), with a big 6-cell battery, you can easily get five or six hours of bat...
Advertisers Overlook Mobile Opportunities
A new study by Forrester Research of interactive marketing finds that the “third screen” — mobile phone — gets short shrift in marketers’ plans, reports Rick Mathieson at Marketing Unbound. “…only about 28% of marketers are using mobile marketing - and a full 36% say they have no plans to…Meanwhile, 15% said they don’t know their goals for mobile marketing.” That’s because they’re looking at that little screen in exactly t...
Apple’s Custom iPhone Chips Would Hurt Samsung
Yesterday the New York Times reported that an engineer’s LinkedIn profile appears to confirm that Apple will make its own application processors for the iPhone — something long suspected after Apple purchased low-power chip firm PA Semi and got a license to tweak the ARM mobile core. Such news might cheer Apple enthusiasts, but it’s grim for Samsung, the provider of the application processor in the iPhone and the No. 3 applications processor company, according to iSuppli. Sams...
Largest Press Room Ever
Here at Room 502B at the IT Expo West, we have the largest press room ever! Ten columnists / bloggers lined up with desks and laptops and eleven tables for people to hold meetings. Tags: it expo west Related Entries IT Expo Update I - Sep 17, 2008 TrackBacks | Comments | Tag with del.icio.us | On Rad’s Radar? Home | Permalink: Largest Press Room Ever Tags: it expo west Copyright On Rad’s Radar? ...
Junction Networks Confirms Aastra IP Phones Compatible With OnSIP Hosted PBX Service
Some more good news coming out of ITEXPO. Junction Networks has confirmed that the popular Aastra phones work with their hosted PBX service called OnSIP. Junction Networks’ New York lab tested the Aastra 53i, 57i and the 57iCT model business phones for interoperability with the full range of OnSIP features and applications, including call waiting, call forwarding, auto attendant, caller ID, voice mail, do-not-disturb settings, and more.Is it me or does it seem like Aastra phones are everyw...
Phonevite API released at ITEXPO
At ITEXPO I met with John Nahm, CEO and co-founder of Phonevite, an intriguing VoIP-enabled one-to-many broadcasting service that takes the concept of the popular Evite email-centric invitations service and extends it to the phone world. Calvin Kim is the other co-founder and he actually founded Dialpad, one of the pioneers of VoIP with their Java-based click-to-call application. Dialpad was later sold to Yahoo. Calvin is now the CTO of Phonevite. John explained he wants Phonevite to be like ...
Ifbyphone Voice Broadcast App Featured On iTunes App Store
Since July we’ve been blogging about our Voice Broadcast App For the iPhone. As of this morning, Apple is featuring the Voice Broadcast App on the front page of the iTunes App Store. Here is a nice screenshot: If you haven’t had a chance yet, take a look at our Plugins page which includes information on the Voice Broadcast App and our other Plugins. ...
Citrix Aims to Make Enterprise-Friendly Clouds
With VMware and Citrix both pushing into the data center with their virtualization products, I had the chance to chat with Simon Crosby briefly about Citrix’s new portfolio of cloud products. I walked away impressed with Citrix’s plan of attack when it comes to helping providers make cloud computing compelling for enterprise customers. Citrix’s approach won’t solve issues related to the physical location of data or problems with varied platforms, but does address complia...
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