Wow – two months sure flies by. I guess nothing much happened while I’ve been on a post hiatus? Oh wait… Microsoft buy Skype Google release Google+ Microsoft release their Kinect SDK Apple announce icloud and Lion Apple announce details of iOS5 Microsoft release more details of Windows 8, beta could be available this year
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No Comments » The Nokia/Microsoft partnership must be a huge disappointment to the Nokia employees who were once the giant of the mobile phone industry. Elop’s message struct a perfect cord for me. While his explicit message was clear – Nokia must change or die. It was his implicit criticism of Nokia’s culture and leadership that had the
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Busy day for the guys at Google Voice. Not only did they release the ability to port your mobile/cell number to Google Voice (US only) they also announced that they had acquired SayNow. SayNow was not a competitor to Google Voice but it did have 15 million users and I suspect this will be a technology and
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Google took another step into the UC marketplace today with the introduction of number portability to Google Voice. Number portability is critical to Google in that it allows a user to move their existing mobile/cell number to the Google Voice service. Without the ability to port numbers the service would take a much harder path
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I can’t help thinking that eventually Cisco and Microsoft will lock themselves in a room and come to an agreement that recognises their mutual benefit in developing joint UC solutions. The Cisco/Lync integration seen below is a great example of how two companies can create great services for end users. I appreciate this is using Tandberg equipment that was
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Here is a quick list of the hardware and applications I use on a daily basis. As you can see from the list there is a relatively even split between Apple, Microsoft and Google, with honourable mentions to WordPress and Dropbox. Hardware is dominated by Apple, productivity software by Microsoft and Internet services by Google.
Google Voice is now released as an official iPhone app. See more detail here With this native app, you’ll continue to have access to all the major Google Voice features on your iPhone, like: Cheap rates for international calls Free text messaging to U.S. numbers Voicemail transcription Display your Google Voice number as caller ID when
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When you are in a dominant market position it is often hard to sustain but I do think there is more going on with RIM/Blackberry. RIM managed to hop on and ride the corporate mobile market during the formative years of the market. Now the enterprise mobile market is maturing Blackberry is being swept aside
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After trying out both Google Apps and MS BPOS-S Center Parcs are moving ahead with BPOS-S, migrating away from their on-prem Exchange and Notes platform. Center Parcs wanted to improve coordination of guest activities. The resort operator deployed Google Apps to 250 employees for 18 months. After discovering that it did not provide the enterprise-grade
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