A Few TalkingPointz on Vonage and NewVoiceMedia
Vonage announced it is acquiring NewVoiceMedia (NVM). It’s a bit surprising, but not out of character. Vonage Holdings Corp. (NYSE...
A Few TalkingPointz on Vonage and NewVoiceMedia
Vonage announced it is acquiring NewVoiceMedia (NVM). It’s a bit surprising, but not out of character. Vonage Holdings Corp. (NYSE...
TalkingHeadz #14 Thuy Ha of the New CenturyLink
In this TalkingHeadz, Evan (Twitter and LinkedIn) and I (Twitter and LinkedIn) discuss the role of electro-mechanical switches in a...
IOS 12 is the least rewarding upgrade, ever
I just upgraded to iOS 12. It’s as boring as Tim Cook. I cannot see anything different or improved…or even...
Talking About Teleworking
I took a business trip to Wisconsin and met Sorell Slaymaker at his lakefront office to discuss the teleworking lifestyle....
National Service in War and Peace
Forgotten history. Here’s a lightly edited excerpt from “A history of Engineering and Science in the Bell System: National Service...
The New CenturyLink
CenturyLink held its first, post-L3-merger, analyst event. The new Centurylink is unlike any other company – and that includes CenturyLink...
Slack Frontiers 2018
Slack hosted its second user conference last week, and I was able to attend. This was the first Frontiers, in...
What’s the fuss about 5G?
From the onset I have been rather cold to the idea of 5G, and I think this sets me into...
Don’t Call Slack a Team Chat App
Slack showcases its value as a platform at Frontiers user conference.
Home Automation Sucks 3
Have I been unkind to the Home Automation people? Unkind that their programming systems look like they were designed in...
First Take on #SlackFrontiers
Exciting few days at Slack Frontiers this week. The young company has no intention to cede its workstream leadership to...
Industry Veteran Joe Manuele to Head Highfive
With an eye on enterprise growth, this cloud video startup brings on new leadership.
Real Life Voice SPAM
(This has actually happened to me, last night. This is not theoretical.) We just had the most horrible thing happen...
Home Automation Sucks 2
My continued rant on Home Automation. It is complicated, inflexible, and clunky. I bring this up in a telecommunications-centric blog...
An Office Is a Terrible Place to Work
The office is noisy, full of germs and sick people, uncomfortable, unsafe, and inconvenient.
TalkingHeadz Tom Schollmeyer
In this TalkingHeadz, Evan (Twitter and LinkedIn) and I (Twitter and LinkedIn) discuss the state of customer engagement with Tom Schollmeyer, former CEO of...
Verizon: No Internet for You
The next time you are at a trade show and stop receiving emails or text messages, it could be because...
Home Automation Sucks
I decided to delve back into Home Automation at my house recently. I was cautious about it, as 25 years...
Five Things to Know about Magic Quadrants
If you want to see/hear some emotional responses, ask a few vendors what they think of Gartner’s Magic Quadrants. They...
TalkingHeadz #12 Denise Hazime of Prodoscore
In this TalkingHeadz, Evan (Twitter and LinkedIn) and I (Twitter and LinkedIn) discuss the benefits of cross-platform analytics for productivity in a cloud-delivered world...
The Great Sadness of Apple Facetime
When Steve Jobs announced FaceTime, Apple’s picture phone service, he also stated that it would be an open standard. (prior...
WATS Service
WATS, or officially known as Wide Area Telephone Service, was an outbound only service that would offer customers discounted long...
TalkingHeadz #11 Dan O’Connell from Dialpad
Last May, Dialpad, the little UCaaS that could, announced it was acquiring TalkIQ. In this TalkingHeadz, Evan (Twitter and LinkedIn) and I...
Liar Liar Phones on Fire
Before AT&T acquired Time Warner it claimed that this is somehow good for consumers. I cannot possibly imagine how it...
Vonage Walks the Tok
Vonage acquires TokBox to move into programmable video — a smart move when cloud is converging and video is booming.
July was Acquisitive
I just published my monthly Quipz newsletter recapping July’s news in enterprise communications. As I expected, July was a bit...
Google Next 2018 – TP Research Note
Google Next took place in July and the company shared a lot of news. Very likely more news that you...