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Google Voice Gets Presence

While Google Voice may revolutionize personal communications directing calls to the phone number of choice, businesses will find the service too simplistic for many of their needs. Yesterday, On-State Communications may have solved that problem by presence-enabling Google Voice. Now small companies can leverage the newest free Google Service...

Tags: Google Inc., Phone, Mobile, Voice, On-State Communications, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Dave Greenfield

Blog posts 2009-07-01

Cloud computing security to grow in 2009

As I mentioned the other day, I've just completed a report with Osterman Research on the messaging security market.  What we found will be good news for cloud computing providers. While enterprise users continue to spend a large percentage of their workday involved with messaging activities, the...

Tags: Cloud Computing, Messaging, Messaging Security, Instant Messaging, Groupware, Security, Internet, Online Communications, Enterprise Software, Software, Dave Greenfield

Blog posts 2009-06-14

Toodledo service out because of storm

Toodledo , the popular collaborative to-do list service, is out of commission. A storm took out the data center where the Toodledo stores its database. The service notice says the following: So, here's the story. A big storm went through the city...

Tags: Rackspace, Data Center, Service Notice, Data Centers, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Data Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Dave Greenfield

Blog posts 2009-06-11

Wiretapping ruling protects carriers - not you

Should companies be punished for letting the government wiretap your phone line? The courts don't think so. US District Court dismissed 46 civil suits filed against several of the major carriers, such as AT&T and Verizon,  for allowing the National Security Agency to wiretap their networks without a court-issued wiretap....

Tags: Electronic Frontier Foundation, Carrier, Government, Vertical Industries, Telephony, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Networking, Dave Greenfield

Blog posts 2009-06-08

Did Cisco Misstep with its SMB Play?

Cisco's small business play yesterday was more than just an announcement of four new infrastructure and communication products. It's a reaffirmation of a basic tenant for Cisco drive value into the SMB's underlying data networks by enabling more applications to share that network. That's a smart strategy when the applications...

Tags: Data Network, Network, Video, Cisco Systems Inc., Small And Medium Business, Networking, Dave Greenfield

Blog posts 2009-06-05

Why Does IT Hate Facebook and Twitter?

With as much as the media might talk about the "new enterprise" and "social media" you'd think that IT would be in lock-step with the rest of the businesswhen it came to social networking. But as my recent work with Michael Osterman shows, there's a big difference between applications that...

Tags: Facebook, Information Technology, Twitter, Strategy, Management, Dave Greenfield

Blog posts 2009-06-03

Paranormal Meets Verizon's Cloud Computing Service

I was speaking yesterday with Verizon about its new hosted data center service, Computing as a Service CaaS, and flashed back to those spoon bending parties of the ‘70s. Back then stage psychic Uri Geller inspired normally sane...

Tags: Spoon, Verizon Communications Inc., Computing As A Service, Data Centers, Virtualization, Servers, Cloud Computing, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dave Greenfield

Blog posts 2009-06-03

Open Source Softswitch Adds Skype

Here's an interesting teaser for you Skype aficionados. Later this month, the new release of FreeSWITCH, the first open source softswitch, will enable carriers and enterprise to integrate Skype into their VoIP services and platform. For the first time, developers will have a free, high-performance voice switching...

Tags: Skype Technologies S.A., Open Source Softswitch, ESL, Skype API, Asterisk, Interactive Voice Response (IVR), VOIP, Telecommunications, Telecom & Utilities, Open Source, Networking, Dave Greenfield

Blog posts 2009-05-19

Ban Mobile Devices and Driving

Should you be allowed to talk on a cell phone and drive at the same time? Perhaps not. A debate ignited by Verizon Wireless's recent backing of a ban on texting and driving underscores the dangers all mobile activities pose while driving a car. According to the...

Tags: Car, Mobile, Mobile Device, Verizon Wireless, Mobile Activity, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Dave Greenfield

Blog posts 2009-05-12

Shame on you, Facebook!

How far ought organizations go towards censoring what’s published on their social networks? Here at ZDNet we have pretty stern view on racist language in our comments section and certainly in our articles. That’s not just smart business. It’s just common sense. Yet as Michael...

Tags: Denial, Facebook, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dave Greenfield

Blog posts 2009-05-11

Hunting for cool phones

I'm looking for nominations for the absolutley coolest phones on the planet for an upcoming story. If you've got a favorite and want to see it covered here ping me at dave@stanalytics.com. The criteria for the phones is they're cool duh stationary (i.e. not mobile) ...

Tags: Phone, Nomination, WiFi Phone, Telecom & Utilities, Dave Greenfield

Blog posts 2009-05-08

New Security Tool: Your Ear

Researchers at the University of Southampton are about to give new meaning to the expression "Can you hear me?" The team led by Dr. Steven Beeby have been awarded funding by the Engineering and Physical Science Research Council to investigate the use of Otoacoustic Emissions OAE to identify individuals. ...

Tags: Ear, Tool, Security Tool, Team Management, Management, Dave Greenfield

Blog posts 2009-05-07

Recording VoIP Calls: Is it Legal?

I was on an interview the other day and began thinking about how nice it would have been to record the rather long-winded engineer on the other end of the line. This got me thinking: are you allowed to record your VoIP calls without asking for permission first? Of course...

Tags: Phone, Permission, Vonage Holdings Corp., Telephony, VOIP, Telecommunications, Advertising & Promotion, Networking, Marketing, Dave Greenfield

Blog posts 2009-05-07

The Real Reason Why Acme Packet Bought Covergence

Last week the SBC market was shaken up when Acme Packet purchased Covergence, Inc. At first glance, this would seem to be a simple consolidation play with a large competitor purchasing a smaller rival. Yet behind the scenes, Covergence gives Acme Packet some important strategic technologies that could ultimately enable...

Tags: Acme Packet, Covergence Inc., Covergence Acquisition, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Telephony, VOIP, Collaboration, Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Networking, Telecommunications, Dave Greenfield

Blog posts 2009-05-06

HD Telephony: The Next Big Step?

How much will you pay to sound great on the phone? That's the question Jeff Pulver and crew will need to answer when vendors and customers meet at the upcoming HD VoIP Summit in  New York later this month. Sit in on any conversation over...

Tags: Phone, Open Source, Audiocodes Ltd., Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Dave Greenfield

Blog posts 2009-05-06

Skype’s Giving Away Skype Credits

Skype for Business is now running a competition for the best Skype for Business story. Three prizes will be awarded per region - EMEA, the Americas and Asia-Pacific. The prizes are as follows: First: Wins a Skype for Business consultancy service with a Skype for...

Tags: Skype Technologies S.A., Dave Greenfield

Blog posts 2009-05-05

9 Tips to Pitching the Press

I just returned from keynoting a PR Newswire seminar in Tel Aviv on how to run marketing campaigns on a shoestring budget. Kudos are well deserved to Rakefet, Sharon and the rest of the PR Newswire team as well as Avi Yair at NCSM Marketing and Yigal Cohen at Linx...

Tags: Journalist, PR Newswire, Kudos, Public Relations, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Dave Greenfield

Blog posts 2009-05-05

New Skype Vulnerability Discovered

A new phishing attack demonstrated by the folks over at Secure Science allows hackers to  gain access to a user's Skype client and then  pose as a financial institution or proxy outbond calls. The technique is called "SkypeSkrayping� and is similar to a  phishing attacking only a bit more interactive:...

Tags: Attacker, Vulnerability, Skype Technologies S.A., Phishing, Security, Viruses And Worms, Spam And Phishing, Dave Greenfield

Blog posts 2009-04-13

LotusLive Engage: Can you afford it?

Lotus just introduced LotusLIve Engage, the online meeting component to LotusLive, its suite of collaboration services. According to the release, Engage is "an integrated portfolio of social networking and collaboration services that allows people to work smarter by providing easy to use, security-rich online meetings, profile and...

Tags: IBM Corp., Web Conferencing, Collaboration, Managed Hosting, Groupware, Cloud Computing, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Dave Greenfield

Blog posts 2009-03-31

Three Challenges for Avaya's Aura

There's lots of buzz about Avaya's new Aura Session Manager announced earlier today and for good reason. Aura seems to provide a new paradigm offering a common programming interface into PBXs and social media. Developers can use Aura to create a single application that could blend telephony and presence with...

Tags: PBX, Avaya Inc., Aura Session Manager, Telephony, VOIP, Social Networking, Networking, Telecommunications, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dave Greenfield

Blog posts 2009-03-30