[back from ITEXPO, Anatoli Levine writes about his observations from the show.] After writing last week about my expectations going to ITEXPO in Los Angeles, let me report back on what I think took place (yep, all subjective feedback). All in all, the event was well organized, as expected – TMC knows how to run a show. It was also well attended, considering the on-going (almost-ending?) recession. And the technical content was solid, with moving and exciting keynotes (especially the
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By guest | September 10th, 2009 | Filed under Technology
I’ve already stated my view on this: Desktop phones trump PC soft clients. But do we really need desktop phones? While I can’t think about “living” without one at the moment, there are those who think otherwise. A smarter person than me, Dave Michels, commented on that post I wrote: I think there is an option 4 which is even more likely. Clearly the desktop will take a percentage of some voice traffic – mostly associated with collaboration and
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | June 29th, 2009 | Filed under Clients
Enough is enough. A few months ago there was a raging discussion going on VoIP bloggers. I believe it was started by Jonathan Christensen, GM of audio and video in Skype, who proclaimed that VoIP is dead at IT Expo, and from there it caught fire. Alec Saunders, Jon Arnold, Andy Abramson, Om Malik, Jeff Pulver and many others have taken sides in this debate. We, who work in the VoIP industry, still feel a bit of an underdog in
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | April 30th, 2009 | Filed under Technology