Archive for October 14th, 2008
Differentiation Part II
When I say that word - Differentiation - in a space like VoIP with 1100 providers, what does it mean? Marketing is about stories. Not stories about your boring tech, but stories about what the consumer can do with your tech. For the most part, the technology works, but why would anyone use it? Blackberries were the first prolific smartphone for business users. Execs thumbing away at the airport after listening to voicemails. A long comes Voicemail to email and Bingo no more typing, just forward ...
Obama Campaigns on Xbox 360!
No, you are not seeing things … Last week there were unconfirmed sightings of an “Obama for President” billboard in the Xbox 360 racing game Burnout Paradise. Today the truth can be told. It is, in fact, an official advertisement placed by the senator’s campaign team. “I can confirm that the Obama campaign has paid for in-game advertising in Burnout,” revealed Holly Rockwood, director of corporate communications at Electronic Arts (EA), the game’...
New Video Interviews on TMCnet
During TMC’s IT Expo a couple of weeks back, I conducted a handful of video interviews. As with the Spring IT Expo earlier this year, these were done while wearing my Editor’s hat for the IP Convergence TV portal. These interviews are a co-production between TMC and IP Convergence TV, and they will be available for viewing on both websites. Updates for IPCTV have been a bit slow lately, but TMC’s Alan Urkawich has done a great job getting these produced, and they’re now r...
More of Us Will Be Living in a 3D Virtual World
An increasing number of industry players will help push 3D virtual worlds into a sustainable industry, reaching 33 million registered users by 2013, according to Virtual Worlds: the Internet of Avatars. This new report from Parks Associates details the evolution of the virtual world value chain, which has added a variety of different companies and providers in its relatively short period of existence. 3D virtual world platform companies, world operators and full-service agencies form the core o...
Microsoft OCS 2007 R2 Heralds the Death of the IP-PBX
Today, Microsoft debuted Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 Release 2 (R2), an update to Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007. Customers will be able to purchase the release, currently in private beta testing, beginning in February 2009. Office Communications Server 2007 R2 includes several new important functionality, particularly for remote and mobile workers. It includes on-premise audioconferencing to help reduce operational costs and introduces new developer advances...
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It’s a GeoSocial!
If you have a burning desire - or just a healthy interest - to talk about GPS, geotagging and location-based services, check out the inaugural GeoSocial in Toronto on November 6. Hosted by PlanetEye (the one-stop travel planning service where I’m gainfully employed), GeoSocial is an informal gathering over after-work food and refreshments to talk about what’s happening with the geo-space. From what I’ve seen and heard, there’s a lot happening within the Toronto tech com...
Guest Blogger: Rachel Z. Cornell: How Social Media can Change Lives
I think there’s a lot to be learned from bearing witness to how social media has been changing the lives of people with disabilities. Considering able-bodied people’s lives are being crippled by a scary economic climate, it might be very timely to see what your gimpy population has been up to. The disabled have long sought methods to get ourselves, our strengths and our contributions through our own front doors. Computers with adaptive technology, along with the power of social media...
3CX Phone System v7 alpha released
It took us a while longer, but its finally here: 3CX Phone System V7. Key new features: Completely revamped interface, with many usability improvementsAbility to set advanced forwarding rules per extension based on caller ID, time received and whether its an internal or an external callApache was replaced by a Microsoft Web Server, Cassini, which is more windows friendly, or optionally IIS can be ...
Blackberry Bold: Challenged to Deliver on Its Full Potential
Over the past five weeks I have had the opportunity to work with the Blackberry Bold on the Rogers network, including a week in California where I used it on AT&T’s network. While it has provided significant performance improvements over my previous 8820 and has several applications that just are not available for the iPhone, I still had the feeling I was running with late beta stage or release candidate firmware. The availability of a new firmware release over the past weekend has cha...
First Lock
Blogging offline. To be posted when connected. We shouldn’ta watched the DVD before starting our canal boat adventure. All of the easy docking demos showed at least three crew members. One’s at the helm; two (always a man) jumps ashore; three (always a woman) throws lines to two. That’s all easy. But son Jarah isn’t joining us until six days after we begin. Mary and I are going to have to do a lot of docking before that. Doesn’t matter that just the two of us oft...
Five Questions with….Homezilla
In Canada, there is sadly no Zillow. How come? It’s because the Canadian Real Estate Association has a stranglehold on real estate listings in Canada. MLS/CREA has gone after several upstart start-ups who have tried to finagle their way into the market, including Housing 123. Nevertheless, Homezilla is hoping to establish a foothold in the online real estate market by doing everything except provide information about real estate properties - at least for now. Instead, Homezilla aims to g...
Take Care of Those Ears! Watch the Volume …
Millions of youngsters across Europe could suffer permanent hearing loss after five years if they listen to MP3 players at too high a volume for more than five hours a week, EU scientists warned Monday. (Am sure that would track nicely with the North American market would look — and sound –like …) The scientists’ study, requested by the European Commission, attacked the concept of “leisure noise,” saying children and teenagers should be protected from increasi...
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