22 posts tagged voicecon

Mike Rhodin, Lotus Software general manager, came up with five predictions about global unified communications while delivering his key note at the VoiceCon 2008 March, this year at Orlando. They are: The virtual workplace will become the rule: Desk phones and desktop computers will gradually disappear, replaced by mobile devices, including laptops that take on traditional office capabilities.

One of the headline presentations at VoiceCon, Orlando in March was by Al Gore, talking up the environmental benefits of remote conferencing over air travel.  Cisco’s ‘Telepresence Meeting’ solution is by all accounts the next best thing to being there.

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I attended the above conference at London Olympia this week and was impressed at the wide variety of vendors in attendance. There was the opportunity to attend business briefings ranging from UC and Messaging to VoIP for Business.

Last Thursday (27.3) I was passing through the center of Tel-Aviv which was in the midst of preparations for “Earth Hour Tel-Aviv“. If you missed the much-publicized blackout - when cities around the world turned off the lights in homes and offices to inspire action regarding climate change - I can tell you that the view (as seen on TV) was astounding.

InformationWeek’s Fritz Nelson talks with SecureLogix’s CTO and VP of engineering, Mark Collier at VoiceCon in Orlando Florida. Collier describes both the Security and Management solutions SecureLogix provides for Legacy, VOIP and U.C. Networks.

We had another great SquawkBox this morning, with as many as 21 people on the line. My guests were Jon Arnold of J Arnold and Associates, and Jon's colleague and business partner Marc Robins of Robins Group. The focus of the call was two fold.

TD Securities analyst Chris Umiastowski headed down to the VoiceCon conference in Orlando recently, and came away impressed with Nortel’s enterprise communications prospects. The crux of his optimism is based on Nortel’s “close partnership” with Microsoft - remember the joint venture they signed in mid-2006?

I have had over two dozen meetings with companies in the communications space these past two weeks and it is my sincere goal to be able to share the most important parts of each meeting with you. In the mean time, I am happy to say that in many cases, there are other TMC writers who are covering some of the news I plan to cover but from their own point of view.

IBM is predicting the virtual office will become the norm driven by expanded globalization and environmentalism. The new workplace will be centered around mobile computing with instant messaging the preferred method of communications.