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...