News of Nortel’s bankruptcy filing hit the news yesterday.  No one is really surprised. First thoughts, you can bet that giants like Cisco and Avaya will be courting some Nortel customers.  The truth of it is, Nortel while they have some great products – was not run well.   Hopefully this s...

UCStrategies has a good post on the outlook for Unified Communications in 2009.  Some experts are saying that Unified Communications (and Web 2.0) are causing serious security issues for enterprises so I find that UCStrategies’ analysis is very compelling.  Here is the link to their outlook ...

Efraim Schwartz over at ComputerWorld reported back in July the results of various studies that indicate that IT jobs will drop in 2009.  Contractors, projects, overall spending down.  The news is dire: “Almost no investment in cloud computing�. Well, I don’t have any studies to refer to jus...

Yeah, Everyone does these.  Top 10 – etc. I thought about it.  Techmeme did a nice job of the biggest stories.  Thanks end the end-of-year read.   So, I’ll analyze it. The Yahoo-Microsoft Story – Yeah this had to be the story of the year.  Microsoft overbids it turns out for Yahoo.  Yah...

The Wall Street Journal has a great perspective on how regulation is hurting entrepreneurship. Add the lack of research mentioned here (below) and the opinion is complete. Businessweek had a post last week about Silicon Valley wealth machine. Silicon Valley is going through another downturn. It̵...

Microsoft is now shedding a little more light on the zero-day XML vulnerability.  It seems some Hong Kong-based pornography sites are dropping the trojans Trojan:Win32/VB.IQ.dr and Trojan:Win32/VB.IQ on unsuspecting PC users.   This in addition to exploits discovered on a popular Taiwan search en...

I never heard of PeerApp til today but what caught my attention is the investor list.  Stephen Van Beaver an old associate from Massachusetts has a hot hand in picking technology network companies.  So I’m posting this and putting PeerApp on my watch list. PeerApp a Intelligent Media Caching...

Jim Burton of UCStrategies.com, the leading consulting firm for Unified Communications, is having an impressive gathering of industry execs the here on the first night of VoiceCon San Francisco 2008. Fellow bloggers Alex Lewis, Blair Pleasant, and I are covering the wine tasting event as part of our...

Gloomy news in a down economy abound. Signs are everywhere in many sectors of the technology spectrum. The Social Networking site Linkedin is laying off 10% of its workers. Dell has asked personnel to voluntarily take unpaid leave. Apple is supposedly scaling back its Iphone production. John Furrier...

I ran into this blog post by Ken Camp today that talks about what is happening in Unified Communications. Unified Communications seems to be a hot buzzword for a new and improved VoIP sector or is it? Ken writes.. “Unified communications is a buzz phrase like convergence. It means different th...