Featured Stories
One Week to eComm VoiceSage Bags a Good One The Cloud Communications Book : 2010 Four Years Later: Nyquist Meets Services Development Cloud Communications Video Interview New CEBP Report
 
One Week to eComm

One Week to eComm

Well, it’s that time of year again – the Ecomm show is next week, and if you want to get a handle on what’s next in communications, then I recommend you get out to it.  If you haven’t bought your ticket yet, you can use the code “thomashowe” to get ten percent off the ticket [...]

VoiceSage Bags a Good One

VoiceSage Bags a Good One

Caught news today that VoiceSage, in partnership with O2, picked up a great project with Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust. In full disclosure, I’m on the Advisory Board of VoiceSage, but that’s more of an honor to me than it is for them… these guys are seriously kicking it over there.  VoiceSage is the leading CEBP [...]

The Cloud Communications Book : 2010

The Cloud Communications Book : 2010

What do Alex Doyle, Evan Cooke, Dan Miller, Jon Arnold, Martin Geddes, Jim Machi, Gary Kim, Dean Elwood, Dan York, Tim Panton, Patrick Murphy, Don Van Doren, Stefan Hopmann, Irv Shapiro, Moshe Yudkoswky, Scott Wharton, and Alan Johnston have in common? They all get regular emails from Pam Shapiro, and now I can prove it. After [...]

Four Years Later: Nyquist Meets Services Development

Four Years Later: Nyquist Meets Services Development

A fundamental of digital signal processing is something called the “Nyquist Rate.”  In layman’s terms, it describes how often you have to observe something to be sure you don’t miss anything.  Nyquist was working with electrical signals, and figured out that if you look (or in digital signal processing terms, sample) a signal at twice [...]

Cloud Communications Video Interview

Cloud Communications Video Interview

A big shout out to Dan York for representing the Cloud Communications Summit during a video interview with TMC during ITExpo. Dan, and many of the Voxeo engineers, attended and gave us some really excellent insight into the state of the art.  If you’d like to see the video – I’ve included it below – [...]

New CEBP Report

New CEBP Report

Sometime last summer, my friends at STL Partners in London approached me to help them write a new report about CEBP opportunities, and today I’m really  happy to hear that the Voice and Messaging :  New API Use Cases has just been published.  In it are twenty some-odd pages of real use cases that show [...]

CEBP Ecosystem Report

CEBP Ecosystem Report

12 November 2009

For months now, management teams have been struggling with understanding how the CEBP market matures, how to create sustainable value chains, and how each actor in the ecosystem survives (or not). I’m really honored to have the chance to put some ideas to paper with Dan Miller from Opus Research. Over the past [...]

Read the full story

Posted in Lead Stories0 Comments

Introducing Light and Electric

Introducing Light and Electric

11 November 2009

After a couple of months in “stealth” mode, I am happy to announce the formation of my new company “Light and Electric“. Light and Electric is a management consulting firm supplying expert advice and custom development services to businesses and their partners. Our efforts center on the intersection of business communications and [...]

Read the full story

Posted in Lead Stories0 Comments

TMC, Light and Electric Partner To Produce Cloud Communications Training Series

TMC, Light and Electric Partner To Produce Cloud Communications Training Series

11 November 2009

Webinars, Screencasts, Sessions at TMC’s ITEXPO Planned for Coming Months Norwalk, CT, (November 11, 2009) — Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC®), a leading global media company, today announced a partnership with Light and Electric for joint participation in a series of Webinars, screencasts and in-show sessions covering the benefits of cloud communications. The initial workshops and sessions [...]

Read the full story

Posted in Lead Stories0 Comments

Orange Partner Event – San Francisco

Orange Partner Event – San Francisco

05 November 2009

I wanted to thank everyone who came out last night to the Orange Partner Event in San Francisco last night. I, for one, really enjoyed hearing all of the presenters, especially my friends from Voxeo, RebelVox, LiveOps and PhoneTag.  In fact, the only part of the night that was better than the presenters was the [...]

Read the full story

Posted in News3 Comments

Wanna change the world? There’s nothing to it.

08 October 2009

A long time ago, I was a music student. My main area of study was classical music (the romantic period, to be specific), but I also attended a jazz lab every week.  I was… not as good as the rest.  Don’t get me wrong, it was a great experience, and it taught me so much [...]

Read the full story

Posted in Lead Stories0 Comments

Moving On Up

05 October 2009

With a heavy yet hopeful heart, I wanted to let everyone know that I’ve moved on from Jaduka. From the bottom of my heart, I wanted to thank my team while I was there, and to state for the record that our time together was way too short.  While we were together, we did some [...]

Read the full story

Posted in Lead Stories3 Comments

A Full Carrier Lobotomy

22 September 2009

I had the pleasure of speaking at the recently revived VON show in Miami yesterday, and had the greater pleasure of sharing the stage with Voxeo’s Dan York, where we had a conversation about the carriers and applications. I’m not sure if our moderator, Suresh Bhandarkar from Tech Mahindra, was ready for the level of [...]

Read the full story

Posted in Lead Stories6 Comments

Verizon and Open APIs

21 September 2009

At today’s VON show in Miami, I had the chance to question key note speaker Fred Briggs of Verizon on their plans to open up APIs into their network.  Unlike most large carrier speakers, I really enjoyed hearing him.  During his talk, Fred mentioned two aspects of Verizon’s forward looking business plans: Unified Communications and Communications [...]

Read the full story

Posted in Lead Stories1 Comment

Jamie’s Got a New Gig

11 September 2009

Damn you, Siminoff. I was just about to let loose with a whole string of great blog posts, and was finally going to go write the long-overdue “Why Andy Abramson Rocks”, and  you go off and do something important. My deepest and heartfelt congratulations go out to Jamie and Mark on the news today that Ditech [...]

Read the full story

Posted in Lead Stories2 Comments

Brizzly

08 September 2009

Caught a really nice video today about a new Twitter service called Brizzly. You need an invitation code to experience it for yourself, but check it out on YouTube.

Read the full story

Posted in Lead Stories0 Comments

« Newer Entries
Older Entries »

Currently Playing...

Cloud Communications Video Interview

Added on 04 March 2010

View More Videos

Get the Cloud Comm Book!

Twitter

    Got an idea?

    If you have an idea on how to improve how businesses are run using communications, have a nifty product or service, Tell us about it!