"The land line is dead." "Home line revenues are tanking." "All I need is my mobile." We've all heard the headlines and declarations. And they're true, for the most part.But hold on a sec. Imagine for a moment there had never been the land line, and m...
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If the Land Line had never been…
Is the Bay Area a Hub for Telephony Innovation?
I've been wondering. The Bay Area is well documented as the engine of innovation for web services, social networking and more. Some might argue even too well documented. But can the same be said about it for the telephony arena?As someone who used to ...
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Voice finding its Voice. Again.
I love the voice market. Read my posts or meet me in person and that's not hard to tell. But even for me, the last 12 months have felt a little slow both in energy and innovation. Surely, The Great Recession has had plenty to do with it. I sense there ...
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Affiliate Networks: The Next Great Telephony Channel?
Affiliate Marketing - a mature online (performance) marketing practice that enables ecomm businesses of all kinds to reward referring sites for clicks that convert to revenue - is by some estimates a $6 billion industry. But not necessarily one that co...
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Video’s future coming into focus.
Today I awoke to the inevitable. Tandberg, the leading stand-alone videoconferencing company, was acquired by Cisco. By inevitable, I mean that as video secured its spot as a strategic element of UC, Tandberg was bound not to stand alone for too long. ...
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