Monday, January 29, 2007

Thanks for the Birthday wishes

by alec on January 29, 2007

It was my birthday Saturday. Thanks to Ken Camp, and all of the folks who emailed good wishes.  I’m now 43.  Although, as my wife tells me, the proper thing to do is to start counting backward at 40 which means that I’m now actually 37.  Or is that just the downside of the hill… hmm.

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Another newly discovered VoIP blog

by alec on January 29, 2007

Thomas Anglero has been writing Telecom’s Tsunami since 2003, and I’m embarrassed to say that I wasn’t aware of it.  He complains that the VoIP blogging community is closed.  I guess in his position you might think that.  As with any blogger, the quickest way to get my attention is write something that links to something I’ve written, or drop me an email. 

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Conference calls: the new "Meeting"

January 29, 2007

27 Tips for Teleconferencing has the scoop on how to make the best of conference calls.  With advice on everything from “Get a headset” to “An audible toilet flush is never acceptable”, it’s the Miss Manners guide to conference calls.  As organizations become more distributed, more and more meetings are taking place by phone. CIO Insight [...]

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Skype for Business

January 29, 2007

Amongst folks in the PBX industry, the most common criticism of Skype is that it’s not a great business tool.  People cite the lack of common business features — queues, call transfer capability, and so on — as evidence.  Fascinatingly, Skype for Business ignores this criticism, and instead focuses on consolidated billing.  Smart move!  Increasingly, [...]

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Flash based Gizmo debuts

January 29, 2007

Om Malik reports that the Gizmo gang has built a new flash-based client to allow people to make Gizmo calls without downloading software.  Cool!  It looks very good and I’d love to try it, except that www.gizmocall.com resolves to a page requiring a password authorization.

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Dumb, dumb, dumb

January 29, 2007

The winner for today’s bonehead, customer unfriendly move is Microsoft.  Windows Vista Upgrade will only run if Windows XP is installed on the hard disk.  In the past, (at least as far back as Windows 95), upgrade meant that users were being rewarded for prior purchases of Microsoft operating systems by being allowed to buy the new [...]

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