Worst New Word of the Week?
Tue, May 15th 2012 6:10a John Taylor Our award for the worst new word of the week goes to Forrester: "Metricifcation is the process of identifying and implementing a comprehensive, relevant set of mobility-related metrics to address the ... [read] Keywords:
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Air France’s New Paris-Orlando Menu
Sun, Apr 1st 2012 1:11p John Taylor Air France is celebrating the inauguration of their new direct Paris-Orlando flights with a new menu created by their top chef, Monsieur D'Isney. We started with an 'amuse bouche' of Poulet Petit foll ... [read] Keywords:
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Air France Offer
Mon, Mar 19th 2012 3:11p John Taylor Yes, I am again having to use my own personal air miles to get to Enterprise Connect but now Air France, my favourite airline, flies direct from Paris to Orlando (so 2 hops instead of 3)! Because I am ... [read] Keywords: enterprise
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Enterprise Connect
Mon, Mar 19th 2012 3:11p John Taylor I know that you will all by now have sold your grandmother to get yourselves to Enterprise Connect in Orlando next week. Just in case she didn't fetch enough to pay for a full ticket, don't forget the ... [read] Keywords: enterprise
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Law Enforecement to Drive UC?
Mon, Mar 19th 2012 3:11p John Taylor I had an email recently from an old school friend who now works as a translator in Tokyo. He had been working on a large UC-related job. He was then reading an SF/detective novel on his iPad and, as h ... [read] Keywords: email
Enterprise Connect 2012
Fri, Dec 23rd 2011 3:09p John Taylor As you know, in these straightened times, we need to control travel expenses but I always try to get to Enterprise Connect conference (the artist formerly known as VoiceCon). 2012 will be no different ... [read] Keywords: enterprise
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Volkswagen’s BlackBerry Rules
Fri, Dec 23rd 2011 3:09p John Taylor I see that Volkswagen is worried about their 1,000+ BlackBerry users being so addicted to email that they can't ignore it after work. VW has made a rule that the email server will not forward mail to ... [read] Keywords: blackberry
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Happy Christmas
Fri, Dec 23rd 2011 3:09p John Taylor And finally ... hoping to annoy the politically correct who now call this season 'the holidays', may I wish you and your families a very happy Christmas? We are off to Morocco to swap turkey for suns ... [read] Keywords:
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HP Share Price
Mon, Nov 7th 2011 5:09a John Taylor OK, this one is rather obvious, but isn't HP's share price rather undervalued these days? Can a billion dollar corporation really be worth half what it cost 6 months ago? (... and don't say it's becau ... [read] Keywords:
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Wine for Lobster
Mon, Nov 7th 2011 5:09a John Taylor One of my delights of this past summer has been the much awaited lobster in a local restaurant - Beaches. It is really a B&B that only does dinner for the public if they have staying guests. As a ... [read] Keywords:
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World Leader’ Holidays and UC
Mon, Nov 7th 2011 5:09a John Taylor Our American cousins today caught up with the rest of the world and ended their Summer Time (they call it Daylight Saving Time but how does it do that, I wonder?). This summer was, for me, characteris ... [read] Keywords:
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Enterprise Connect 2012
Mon, Nov 7th 2011 5:09a John Taylor If you can only attend one UC conference a year then I always recommend Enterprise Connect 2012. My UC career hasn't yet rewarded me with a yacht to make the trip to Florida but I plan to be there if ... [read] Keywords: enterprise
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UCC For Oldies
Wed, Aug 10th 2011 12:09p John Taylor Last month I reached the age of 60. My wife, after arranging a splendid party at home, took me off on a cruise ship around the Baltic cities and St Petersburg (the original one, not Florida). Fantasti ... [read] Keywords:
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Caviar and Vodka
Wed, Aug 10th 2011 12:09p John Taylor The quality of food and drink in the Baltic is almost as high as its price. One particularly exciting experience was a surprise visit to the Lobby Bar of the 18th century Grand Hotel Europe in St Pet ... [read] Keywords:
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Typex & IBM - A Longstanding Partnership
Tue, Jun 21st 2011 6:10a John Taylor Typex was born in 1978 as a design and management company. Finding too much time on her hands spurred Girl Friday, Deni Wilson, to search out extra typing work to keep her out of trouble. Finding a re ... [read] Keywords: ibm
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Auto Attendants
Tue, May 10th 2011 12:12a John Taylor You might like this UK Channel 4 TV documentary of a Scottish actor shown battling an automated UK National Rail Enquiries helpline: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/8391414/Victor-Meldre ... [read] Keywords:
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Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
Tue, May 10th 2011 12:12a John Taylor A good friend recently showed me a fascinating paper by Frost & Sullivan entitled "Finding the Value in Unified Communications - Understanding the Hierarchy of Return". It looks at Maslow's Hierar ... [read] Keywords: unified communications
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Texting Californian Models
Tue, May 10th 2011 12:12a John Taylor At the recent COMMON Confernece opening session session (@28 minutes on video) the annual IBM Innovation Award was won by a UC2 solution from the great team at the Fashion Institute of Design and Merc ... [read] Keywords: ibm
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Hybrid COMMON Conference
Tue, May 10th 2011 12:12a John Taylor Last June I wrote about how I had suggested Hybrid Conferences to COMMON, the IBM midrange user group - see http://www.typex.com/Blogs.nsf/dx/19062010201813JMTPGG.htm. By Hybrid Conferences I mean a ... [read] Keywords: ibm
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SMConnect?
Fri, Apr 1st 2011 1:08p John Taylor Much has been written about last month's Enterprise Connect, the worthy successor to the VoiceCon conference. I have little to add other than to repeat that if you can only attend one UC conference a ... [read] Keywords: enterprise
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Welcome to ShoreTel!
Fri, Apr 1st 2011 1:08p John Taylor Welcome to a new member of the team - ShoreTel. As a result of their collaboration with HP on VCX integration they now join you all in having to put up with my ramblings. ... [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Les Arches D’Or
Fri, Apr 1st 2011 1:08p John Taylor Some of you like to hear about the various restaurants that I encounter on my travels. Well, Les Arches D'Or is one to watch for. Its branches take traditional French cuisine and adapt it to suit loca ... [read] Keywords:
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Are IP-PBXs Mostly Mature Products?
Mon, Feb 7th 2011 11:47p John Taylor Several of HP's IP-PBX competitors have been using this recent article "HP Hangs Up On 3Com VoIP VARs" in trade mag CRN http://www.crn.com/news/networking/229100302/hp-hangs-up-on-3com-voip-vars.htm? ... [read] Keywords: networking
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The UC Channel in 2010
Mon, Jan 3rd 2011 4:00a John Taylor As we start a new year of challenges in the UC marketplace I thought I would review how the some of the major vendors in 2010 handled what I think will be their greatest challenge in 2011 - how to tak ... [read] Keywords:
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Bad Weather & Unified Communications
Wed, Dec 1st 2010 11:16p John Taylor As those of us in the Northern Hemisphere get ready for another winter (and as Britain doesn't, but it arrives anyway) I thought I might jot down the ways in which Unified Communications can help to k ... [read] Keywords: unified communications
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HP Gets Serious About Voice
Sun, Oct 3rd 2010 12:48p John Taylor HP, the newest worldwide voice vendor (since their acquisition of 3Com), has wasted no time in exploiting their new strengths. - They have hosted events to recruit the 3Com BPs to HP. (More in a futu ... [read] Keywords:
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HP Pulls the Plug on Power
Mon, Jun 28th 2010 9:48a John Taylor I was disappointed to see that HP, having completed the acquisition of 3Com, have decided that they will not support 3Com's VCX IP Telephony on the IBM Power Systems hardware platform after 2012. No o ... [read] Keywords: ibm
Hybrid Conferences
Sat, Jun 19th 2010 12:18p John Taylor Four recent conferences caused me to think about the future of such meetings. ... [read] Keywords:
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IBM & Aastra In Futuristic Deal
Thu, Apr 1st 2010 12:00a John Taylor IBM and Aastra today announced a huge new joint contract for the US military. They plan to equip them with a single Unified Communications solution for both onboard flight crew and marine and civilian ... [read] Keywords: ibm
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VoiceCon Day 3
Tue, Mar 23rd 2010 11:58p John Taylor On Wednesday I started with an early Coffee Talk on How Much Voicemail Do You Really Need? with Blair Pleasant (COMMfusion) and Marty Parker (UniComm) and came away with three messages. One is that Pr ... [read] Keywords: enterprise
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VoiceCon Day 2
Mon, Mar 22nd 2010 11:57p John Taylor I went in early for the Coffee Talks and picked the one about Mobility. The host, Michael Finneran, is certainly a man who can tell his femtocell from his picocell. One thing was clear - Microsoft has ... [read] Keywords: microsoft
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VoiceCon Day 1
Sun, Mar 21st 2010 11:57p John Taylor Up at 5 a.m. for a conference call about a European customer who is unhappy to be having very strange problems with his IBM IP Telephony solution at one of their locations. We agree a plan with 3Com a ... [read] Keywords: ibm
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VoiceCon Day 0
Sat, Mar 20th 2010 11:54p John Taylor I am lucky enough to be in Florida for VoiceCon Spring 2010 (if you call travelling 4,000 miles on your own expense lucky). I am unlucky enough to get caught in a thunderstorm from Hell but a vision o ... [read] Keywords:
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Boys Like to Play
Sun, Mar 14th 2010 8:28a John Taylor Our engineers and salesmen do like to play with their gadgets. Following field trials of free international calls from iPhone over WiFi in Far Eastern bars one of them has now got his Apple iPod Touch ... [read] Keywords: apple
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128-bit Domino Server
Sun, Mar 14th 2010 8:27a John Taylor Did anyone spot the description of '128-bit Domino Server' in the recent IBM Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5.1 announcement? It is of course the IBM i operating system which supports 128-bit pointers and w ... [read] Keywords: domino
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Diary Planning
Sun, Mar 14th 2010 8:27a John Taylor I am getting ready for VoiceCon in Florida next week, so what is new there this year? There is certainly more focus on SIP Trunking and the debate about the future of 'end-points' (that's 'phones to y ... [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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Who Sells IP Telephony on IBM Now?
Sun, Mar 14th 2010 8:26a John Taylor Some of you have been in touch about Timothy Prickett Morgan's article "VOIP and Other Apps Dropped From i/OS Catalog" (http://www.itjungle.com/tfh/tfh021510-story07.html) about IBM Systems Group movi ... [read] Keywords: ibm
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Dinosaur Update (Cisco & HP)
Sun, Mar 14th 2010 8:25a John Taylor Some of you recently contributed comments to the press on the HP/3Com deal. Those of you who liked my UrassiC Park blog last year... ... [read] Keywords:
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Mercedes & High Availability
Tue, Feb 9th 2010 12:01p John Taylor Back in the dim and distant past, when IT was a profitable place to be, I bought myself a nice convertible Mercedes. Last month I was shocked to see the warning display "Tail light, right" and a pictu ... [read] Keywords:
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IBM POWER7 Announcement
Tue, Feb 9th 2010 11:59a John Taylor Today IBM announced the latest generation of its Power Systems platform. The new models are much more powerful and use much less energy than the previous generation and are seen as a major threat to t ... [read] Keywords: ibm
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First European IBM IP Telephony User Group
Tue, Feb 9th 2010 11:57a John Taylor Last month I was pleased to attend the first European IBM IP Telephony User Group in IBM Manchester, UK. We have held informal groups at COMMON US but not Europe. The attendees were mainly from UK and ... [read] Keywords: ibm
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