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Open Source VoIP: Asterisk or FreeSwitch?: When the time came for a new PBX, Brian Snipes chose to do something a bit unconventional. The IT manager at law firm Hare, Wynn, Newell, and Newton LLP didn't purchase a commercial PBX, nor did he settle on the open source market leader,...; Tags: Phone, PBX, Attorney, FreeSwitch, Asterisk, Telephony, VOIP, Open Source, Telecom & Utilities, Networking, Telecommunications, Dave Greenfield; Blog posts 2008-07-22
Yahoo and Icahn Reach Agreement: The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Yahoo has reached an agreement with Carl Icahn, the activist investor who has been waging a proxy contest to unseat the board and push Yahoo closer to a deal with Microsoft. Yahoo said Mr. Icahn will join the board himself. The board...; Tags: Board, Yahoo! Inc., Agreement, Carl Icahn, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Dave Greenfield; Blog posts 2008-07-21
How to make Microsoft Silverlight enterprise fit: A father and son team think they've found a way to make Microsoft Silverlight more enterprise friendly. Navot and Gai Peled who run Gizmo, Ltd., an Israeli startup, enabled their Visual WebGui environment to run any Silverlight...; Tags: Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft Corp., AJAX, Development Tools, Networking, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Web 2.0, Software Development, Dave Greenfield; Blog posts 2008-07-17
Research Shows iPhone Penetration to Grow by 164 Percent: Is the iPhone going to rule enterprise mobility? Consider this: a recent Goldman Sachs survey of its IT executives showed that 17 percent expect to support the iPhone 3G in the next year. That's a "very strong number especially at this early stage," says Goldman telecom analyst Jason...; Tags: Apple iPhone, Research In Motion Ltd., Mobile, Goldman Sachs & Co., Armstrong, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Dave Greenfield; Blog posts 2008-07-08
Sharepoint Addons and Mashups Strike it Big in Boston: Sharepoint, RSS and Mashups are going to take center stage this week at the Enterprise 2.0 show in Boston. On the Sharepoint and RSS front.... ....Microsoft and several partners are announcing new social networking, RSS feeds and other Web 2.0 technologies that allow integration with SharePoint...; Tags: Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Corp., Mashup, TownSquare, RSS, Groupware, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Dave Greenfield; Blog posts 2008-06-10

SocialText unveils new wiki spreadsheet: SocialText just announced its latest addition to SocialText SocialCalc, a multi-user wiki-based spreadsheet. SocialText isn't the first to deliver an online spreadsheet, but it is the first to integrate an online spreadsheet with a leading Wiki and allows linking between sheets. (Click here for our exclusive, SocialCalc screen gallery.) ...; Tags: Socialtext, Spreadsheet, Permissioning, Google Sheet, Wiki, Productivity, Online Communications, Dave Greenfield; Blog posts 2008-06-10
Nortel Demos Virtual World Platform: Nortel demoed a virtual world prototype here in a Ottawa at a day long event. Dubbed Project Chainsaw, the virtual world is the first project to come out of Nortel new research effort that imposes a VC-like model for funding research. Like other virtual worlds, Project...; Tags: Collaboration, Nortel Networks Corp., Voice, World Platform, Project Chainsaw, Telecommunications, Dave Greenfield; Blog posts 2008-05-16
Dialcom: Web Conferencing that Works: I've complained about all of the things wrong with the way folk use Web conferencing. Now let me tell you about a web conference that went off well. A few weeks ago I chatted with a Spanish company looking to launch in the US. Dialcom (not...; Tags: Web, Video, Dialcom, Web Conferencing, Internet, Dave Greenfield; Blog posts 2008-05-02
Four Reasons To Skip Web Conferences: Remember when PowerPoints were first created how we were flooded with every special effect in the PowerPoint pail? Text would come swooping in from the right. Clip art would fade-in out of thin air. Sometimes, I would get downright dizzy watching the damn show. The only...; Tags: Microsoft PowerPoint, Web Conferencing, Internet, Dave Greenfield; Blog posts 2008-05-02
Siemens vs. Microsoft: Round Two: Siemens announced today two new UC-enabled Contact Center packages based on OpenScape UC Server, and a new Voice Portal solution. The products will be available June 30, 2008. The products are being driven in part by trends in the contact center and in part by trends...; Tags: Siemens AG, Siemens HiPath OpenScape, Contact Center, Microsoft Corp., UC, Call Centers, Groupware, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), It Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Dave Greenfield; Blog posts 2008-04-21
What Microsoft's Been Missing from its Small Business Telephony Play: Microsoft announced today that it was teaming up with Cbeyond, Inc., and New Global Telecom, Inc. NGT, to combine their digital voice services with Response Point, Microsoft's specification for small offices PBXs. ResponsePoint systems are distinguished by a blue button on the handset. Pressing the button...; Tags: Cbeyond Inc., Phone, Small Business, Microsoft Corp., ResponsePoint, ResponsePoint System, Telecom & Utilities, Dave Greenfield; Blog posts 2008-04-18
HD-Telephony: Hip or Hype?: I recently interviewed Anthony Minessale, the author of FreeSwitch, the open source, class-5 switch. We got to speaking (actually, IMing) about high-definition telephony and how it fits into FreeSwitch. He had some pretty smart things to say about the area no surprise so I thought you might enjoy hearing about...; Tags: Audio, Phone, Network, Call, HD-Telephony, HD-audio, Telecom & Utilities, Dave Greenfield; Blog posts 2008-04-14
The one thing Asterisk has been missing: If you're like most folk, setting up a PBX is something you'd rather avoid, especially when its an open source PBX that isn't known for its easy configuration and installation. ISPBX aims to solve the pain with its drag-and-drop configuration tool, Cogoblue. Drag a few phone object...; Tags: Phone, Configuration, PBX, ISPBX, Cogoblue, Model 500, Model 12000, Interactive Voice Response (IVR), Telephony, VOIP, Telecom & Utilities, Networking, Telecommunications, Dave Greenfield; Blog posts 2008-04-11
An Open Source Class-Five Switch: Open source projects have revolutionized operating systems, web servers, web browsers, and so why not carrier switches? The FreeSwitch open source project released its Release Candidate 1 (RC1) yesterday providing and by early accounts the software rocks. "We replaced a cluster of 10 Asterisk servers with...; Tags: Software, Open Source, Server, Softswitch, BroadSoft, Carrier, FreeSwitch Open Source, Interactive Voice Response (IVR), Tools & Techniques, Management, Dave Greenfield; Blog posts 2008-04-08
IBM and Linden Partner on Enterprise-Class Second Life: IBM and Linden Labs are partnering to develop a version of Second Life that will live behind the corporate firewall. As I mentioned in my previous post, Second Life is far too fat and clumsy to be taken seriously in the enterprise. Add to that concerns around...; Tags: Second Life, IBM Corp., SL, Firewalls, Branding, Groupware, Network Security, Networking, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Dave Greenfield; Blog posts 2008-04-03
Google to Buy Skype?: Rumors are out again that Ebay's albatross. aka Skype, may soon be unloaded to Google. The deal could be valued at as much as $6 billion: "Skype is booking about $400 million in revenue now, and it's conceivable the company could command 10-times that. *A reader suggests...; Tags: Google Inc., Google Gmail, Skype Technologies S.A., Rumors, E-mail Providers, Telephony, Peer To Peer (P2P), VOIP, Telecommunications, Internet, Networking, Dave Greenfield; Blog posts 2008-04-02
The 3-D Web Goes Thin: Increasingly, it looks like Weight Watchers has gotten hold of the Semantic Web. Fat is out. Thin is in. And while no one's counting points, it certainly looks like, thin clients will increasingly play a central roles in attracting organizations to the 3-D web. A number of...; Tags: 3D, Web, 3-D Web, Vivaty, ScreenCaster, Dave Greenfield; Blog posts 2008-03-31
Avaya Changes the UC Game: The battle for enterprise Unified Communications took a pivotal turn this morning when Avaya announced its Intelligent Presence server here at VoiceCon. The Intelligent Presence server collects and integrates presence information from multiple sources for a richer view of a worker's status. More specifically, the Presence Server will...; Tags: Microsoft Corp., Avaya Inc., Intelligent Presence Server, Presence Server, Presence Source, E-mail Providers, Servers, Internet, Hardware, Dave Greenfield; Blog posts 2008-03-17
The Longtail of IT Governance: Open source has shown how marketplaces can thrive on doing good, but can whether the same concept be applied to IT governance? Archer Technology hopes so. The risk assessment and compliance company announced Archer Exchange, an open marketplace for governance applications here at its user conference in Orlando. ...; Tags: Application, IT Governance, Information Technology, IBM Lotus SmartSuite, Archer Exchange, Groupware, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Dave Greenfield; Blog posts 2008-03-14
VoIP: Cisco Goes to Number Two: Love ‘em or hate ‘em you most certainly have to respect the VoIP folk over at Cisco. According to Infonetics, they've just moved into the number two spot behind Avaya in worldwide IP deskphone and softphone shipments. Cisco grew at the expense of its competitors. "Cisco took...; Tags: VoIP, IP, Cisco Systems Inc., Dave Greenfield; Blog posts 2008-03-02