Steve Jobs Dead

Just heard it in a text message from my mom. Rest in Peace, Steve.   You’ve done many wonderful things for many, many people.

October 5, 2011 | 13 Comments »

Ted – Why Don’t You Blog VoIP Any More?

1. Divorce made me realize I needed more time with people.  Writing takes away face time, and as shrewd as that is, it’s true.

2. My business took off. 6 employees now. Microsoft partner. Digium partner. The list goes on.  Time commitment issues again.

3. My tweeners became teenagers.  More driving around, more emotional guidance, more interaction with them daily.  They have become awesome musicians!

4. I started a band in Cleveland called pOUT (pronounced “pout”), which has, in the span of about one year, become one of the top 10 club bands in the rock capital.  Time commitment.

5. I realized that, despite my preoccupation with converged business communication, the bulk of my real earning potential was in general I.T. consulting and networking, because I live in Cleveland and not San Jose or Boston.

6. Still getting plenty of VoIP press despite having been relatively disengaged from the VoIP crowd for nearly two years now.  I was the coverboy for ChannelPro SMB last month for their VoIP feature.

7. My vocational obsessions only last a few years, it seems.

July 27, 2011 | 816 Comments »

An Update from Signal to Noise

Friends, it’s been forever since I blogged, and, as a writer born and bread, that’s a pretty tough reality with which to live.  So here’s an update, if brief.

Best Technology, my general I.T. consulting firm, now has six employees, and has grown like a weed since late 2008.  In fact, I’m heading down to Miami tomorrow to consider a new business opportunity that represents a strategic significance to Best Technology–virtualization infrastructure and private cloud computing.

I look forward to giving you another update soon, and miss everybody in the blogosphere with whom I’ve lost touch over the last 18 months.

June 22, 2011 | 112 Comments »

Agreed, 4g is a farce

There is no implementation of 4g mobile networks right now, and won’t be for a while to come. While T-Mobile is using Evo “4g” ads on television to bash AT&T and the iPhone, it’s amusing to note that, according to the body that creates such standards, no such standard is currently implemented in the United States, nor anywhere worth mentioning.

Not surprising. Here are the facts.

November 3, 2010 | 1,678 Comments »

Thanks VoIP Survivor

A shout out to Tsahi Levent-Levi at the VoIP Survivor blog for putting me in his Top 50 list.  Thanks!  If you haven’t read Levent-Levi’s blog, do so–it’s an excellent insider perspective.

October 26, 2010 | Tags: , , | 1,087 Comments »

Yahoo Messenger on iPhone

Old friend Andy Abramson’s post about Yahoo Messenger’s expansion to iPhone and iPod devices contains a nugget:

 ”…with the iPhone I now have Yahoo video to anyone running Windows XP versions or later of Yahoo Messenger (sorry, no Mac version yet) as Yahoo is taking advantage of the phone number…”

The nugget is in the parentheses.  I wouldn’t be surprised if the feature never translates to OS X because Yahoo has never really cared much about feature parity in Messenger on OS X. My guess is that they just view the market as being too small, too much of a subset of user requirements, that it isn’t worth their development dollars.  But the mobile device market–especially iOS–is  a whole different story. Lots more potential customers there.

October 22, 2010 | Tags: , , , | 1,676 Comments »

AltiGen iPhone and Android App – first look

Screenshots of iPhone AltiGen App


Android

MaxMobile Android is supported on the T-Mobile G1 and MyTouch phones; additional models and carriers will be supported in the future. The latest MaxMobile Android version is 6.5.1.401. It’s compatible with all MAXCS servers running 6.0 Update 2 (6.0.2.412) or higher.


iPhone

MaxMobile iPhone is supported on all iPhone models. The latest MaxMobile iPhone version is 6.5.1.404. It’s compatible only with MAXCS servers running 6.5 Update 1 (6.5.1.403) or higher.

Need help integrating this?  Give us a call.

February 26, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , | 22 Comments »

More Kind Words for “Switching to VoIP”

I came across some very kind passages regarding my book, Switching to VoIP.  This first one contrasts my book with the VoIP for Dummies book. He also mentions “Asterisk: The Future of Telephony”, for which I provided O’Reilly a technical review. That’s an awesome book, too.

This book is focused on the key elements of telephony and the migration to VOIP – primarily as a cost saving measure. The first 2/3 of the book deal with the VOIP technology – as an adjunct to and eventual replacement for traditional (legacy) telephony. By the 2/3 point, the author is talking about cost analysis, benefits and justification.

I would more likely title this book “VOIP for management”. This is not a put-down or insult, as the book’s primary objective is to educate the mostly non-technical person on what VOIP is, and how it might best fit into an existing picture, and one moving forward.

Being primarily technical myself, this book was good as a preliminary introduction to a subject that I wasn’t familiar with – but I immediately moved on to the O’Reilly books on the subject – “Switching to VOIP” by Ted Wallingford and “Asterisk” (Leif Madsen, et al). Someone who is responsible for managing such a transition would find it much more useful than I did.

Also, Tech PRose was kind enough to add Signal Noise as a favorite telecom blog.

February 9, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , | 1,031 Comments »
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