DiamondWare Acquired!

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DiamondWare’s Keith Weiner just pinged me to let me know that his company had been acquired by Nortel.

For those not familiar with DiamondWare, they build stereo, spatially aware audio conferencing systems.  An accomplished group of audio engineers, the DiamondWare team has solved the problem of how to represent people in 3 audible dimensions.  Their software is in use by the US military, gaming companies, and an increasing array of carriers.  And now, as part of Nortel, they’ll be integrated in the telecom giant’s virtual world project called web.alive.

The DiamondWare team has been a fixture of the VoIP world ever since I started in this industry.  The technology has always been cool, but just a little outside the mainstream.  In my short conversation with Keith he was excited and ready to “stay on for the long haul and scale this thing up”. It seems as if the dream he and his team have been working toward for so long has just been given the backing it needs to become reality.

Congratulations to the DiamondWare team!

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Alec Saunders is the Vice President of Developer Relations for BlackBerry maker Research in Motion. This is his personal blog, with his personal viewpoints. Prior to this Alec was the CEO and co-founder of Calliflower — the easiest way to hold a meeting, online, on a conference call, or on the go. A double-decade veteran of product management and marketing, he spent nine years at Microsoft where he helped launch Windows 95, the first two versions of Internet Explorer, the Universal Plug and Play initiative, the push into home markets, opt-in email marketing and what might well go down in history as the very first direct email list ever.