Saturday, December 31, 2011
I told you so... LAPD put the kibosh on switch the Gmail Cloud from on prem Exchange/GroupWise
REPORTING CLINT BOULTON
SUMMARY: Google lost 13,000 Los Angeles Police Department Google Apps seats as part of its deal with the city. Microsoft was surprisingly quiet about the blow to its cloud computing rival.
Earlier this month, the Los Angeles Police Department reneged on its agreement to replace its email and collaboration software with Google Apps, effectively removing 13,000 out of 30,000 seats Google had hoped to serve as part of its municipal government contract with Los Angeles...
Reporting by http://EWeek.com
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Lync for the IPhone , Windows Mobile and Andriod is out.
LYNC 2010 MOBILE : The game is now on!
And the Andriod version actually works!
http://lyncdup.com/2011/12/lync-for-iphone-and-ipad-available-for-download-now-screenshots-and-links/
To make this work you will need the follwoing patch...
http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=11551
If your using non-common certificates in your implementation you may get the following error.
In which case you can as an option cadd certificates to your mobile device
stores using admin tools , or switch to a common certifiacte authority.
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Idiots! HP could've taken run at Apple and Google with WebOs touchpad.
Sigh!
At some point, somebody other than Apple is going to produce a tablet that really captures the public imagination. It could be Amazon, if early signs of strong demand for the new Kindle Fire hold up, but for now, the second-most popular consumer tablet in the U.S. is one that isn't even getting made anymore.
Hewlett-Packard's discontinued TouchPad was the best-selling non-Apple tablet in the U.S. from January to October, according to a new report from The NPD Group. Excluding iPad sales, HP had 17 percent of tablet market in terms of unit sales at retail, the research firm reported Tuesday, just a hair ahead of Samsung, which captured 16 percent of the market.
FULL STORY:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2396796,00.asp
At some point, somebody other than Apple is going to produce a tablet that really captures the public imagination. It could be Amazon, if early signs of strong demand for the new Kindle Fire hold up, but for now, the second-most popular consumer tablet in the U.S. is one that isn't even getting made anymore.
Hewlett-Packard's discontinued TouchPad was the best-selling non-Apple tablet in the U.S. from January to October, according to a new report from The NPD Group. Excluding iPad sales, HP had 17 percent of tablet market in terms of unit sales at retail, the research firm reported Tuesday, just a hair ahead of Samsung, which captured 16 percent of the market.
FULL STORY:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2396796,00.asp
Monday, November 21, 2011
The Battle for YOUR VoIP Integration dollars has begun...MS vs AVAYA vs CISCO!
Dear readers, all 3 of you. Things are about to get interesting.
Globally, despite 14 percent increase in shipments, revenue from enterprise telephony equipment fell four percent.
Cisco’s share held steady at 30 percent while Avaya’s rose from 19 percent to 22 percent.
Avaya passed Cisco as the IP telephony leader but Cisco retained its overall share lead because of its 80 percent share of the voice gateway market.
The next five vendors were all losing share in Q1 and Q2 2011.
The Forbes article then goes on to say that the VoIP sub-segment of the overall IP telephony market (it classifies IP Telephony as including IP Fax, SMS and or voice messaging with VoIP being the vast majority of the total revenue) remains hot with SIP trunking coming on strong to support what other researchers feel will be a shift from 31 percent of all business lines being VoIP now to 66 percent by 2015. It also points to the growth of smartphones and tablets and the upward pressure of enterprise socialization as driving the need for enterprises to switch to IP solutions (cloud as well as premises based) to accommodate the multimedia needs of these devices.
In other words, the troika of mobile-social-cloud is hastening the death of TDM communications equipment optimized for voice, and given that the last major upgrade/replacement cycle of most installed communications equipment was because of for Y2K fears, the reality is that the base has never been older and certainly is in need of a replenish. We actually reached what should have been a tipping point similar to what happened when the world shifted from analog to digital PBXs and Key Systems, but which has been forestalled to a certain extent by the use of gateways which preserve functionality of the core PBX and its software yet provide interoperability with the IP world.
Enter the 800 Pound Gorilla —That is NOT a Costume!
I will be brief here because this is a subject that is evolutionary and not revolutionary and will undoubtedly be returned to often. Now for the mischief that was promised
.
While Telegeopraphy sees a sales pick-up as a result of enterprise adoption of Unified Communications (News - Alert) (UC) and more VoIP, what I see is market mayhem.
Numerous blogs have noted that at the recent Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference, company officials (including CEO Steven Ballmer (News - Alert)) stated that the sales trajectories of Microsoft Lync licenses was clearly going to make it their next billion-dollar platform, and sooner rather than later.
For the unfamiliar, Lync is Microsoft's unified communications platform that combines voice, Web conferencing, and instant messaging. It was launched on a new server platform in 2010, is relatively inexpensive by industry and not just Microsoft standards and integrates will with Office 365. In fact, the only thing it is missing at the moment is a robustness in its PBC functionality in its hosted/cloud formulation, but this too shall come.
Why is this important? I am going to go here with a keen grasp of the obvious. After wandering in the PBX/VoIP wilderness for almost a decade, Microsoft has it right.
Better yet, from an IT department standpoint, especially for multi-nationals, the coming integration of Skype (News
- Alert) is going to only add a level of brutality to traditional incumbents. And, make no mistake about it, Microsoft is lusting after the 10 million installed lines of Cisco as a target of opportunity. { Dude it's called an EA they already have rights to ync 2010 or Wave 15 ;) - KP the VoIP Outlaw}
And, did I forget to mention that industry statisticians, netmarketshare.com (who track everything from browser to OS to tablet shares) last time I looked gave Microsoft Windows 92.44 percent of the desktop operating system market. Okay so they don’t have a presence in the tablet OS or mobile handheld markets, but the hands they do hold are those of ID decision-makers and can you spell
INTEGRATION if at first they don’t succeed?
So what is missing from the Forbes piece and the Telegeography outlook? How about those folks in Redomnd, WA who brought us Outlook?
The facts are that all traditional providers of premises-based telecommunications equipment need to be doing something more than looking in their rearview mirrors. As the late, great African-American pitcher Satchel Paige used to say, “Don't look back; they might be gaining on you.”
This is not going to be a case of age before beauty. Yes, Microsoft has gotten things wrong in the past. Yes, even IBM managed to mangle the PBX business years ago and exasperated sold out to Siemens. However, time is running out. Technology is moving too fast and the installed base is ready to be yanked out. It is going to be interesting...." - Paul Bernstein TMC
FULL STORY : http://sip-trunking.tmcnet.com/topics/enterprise-voip/articles/235874-pbx-market-shares-microsoft-lync-what-not-yet.htm
The Forbes article then goes on to say that the VoIP sub-segment of the overall IP telephony market (it classifies IP Telephony as including IP Fax, SMS and or voice messaging with VoIP being the vast majority of the total revenue) remains hot with SIP trunking coming on strong to support what other researchers feel will be a shift from 31 percent of all business lines being VoIP now to 66 percent by 2015. It also points to the growth of smartphones and tablets and the upward pressure of enterprise socialization as driving the need for enterprises to switch to IP solutions (cloud as well as premises based) to accommodate the multimedia needs of these devices.
In other words, the troika of mobile-social-cloud is hastening the death of TDM communications equipment optimized for voice, and given that the last major upgrade/replacement cycle of most installed communications equipment was because of for Y2K fears, the reality is that the base has never been older and certainly is in need of a replenish. We actually reached what should have been a tipping point similar to what happened when the world shifted from analog to digital PBXs and Key Systems, but which has been forestalled to a certain extent by the use of gateways which preserve functionality of the core PBX and its software yet provide interoperability with the IP world.
Enter the 800 Pound Gorilla —That is NOT a Costume!
I will be brief here because this is a subject that is evolutionary and not revolutionary and will undoubtedly be returned to often. Now for the mischief that was promised
.
While Telegeopraphy sees a sales pick-up as a result of enterprise adoption of Unified Communications (News - Alert) (UC) and more VoIP, what I see is market mayhem.
Numerous blogs have noted that at the recent Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference, company officials (including CEO Steven Ballmer (News - Alert)) stated that the sales trajectories of Microsoft Lync licenses was clearly going to make it their next billion-dollar platform, and sooner rather than later.
For the unfamiliar, Lync is Microsoft's unified communications platform that combines voice, Web conferencing, and instant messaging. It was launched on a new server platform in 2010, is relatively inexpensive by industry and not just Microsoft standards and integrates will with Office 365. In fact, the only thing it is missing at the moment is a robustness in its PBC functionality in its hosted/cloud formulation, but this too shall come.
Why is this important? I am going to go here with a keen grasp of the obvious. After wandering in the PBX/VoIP wilderness for almost a decade, Microsoft has it right.
Better yet, from an IT department standpoint, especially for multi-nationals, the coming integration of Skype (News
- Alert) is going to only add a level of brutality to traditional incumbents. And, make no mistake about it, Microsoft is lusting after the 10 million installed lines of Cisco as a target of opportunity. { Dude it's called an EA they already have rights to ync 2010 or Wave 15 ;) - KP the VoIP Outlaw}And, did I forget to mention that industry statisticians, netmarketshare.com (who track everything from browser to OS to tablet shares) last time I looked gave Microsoft Windows 92.44 percent of the desktop operating system market. Okay so they don’t have a presence in the tablet OS or mobile handheld markets, but the hands they do hold are those of ID decision-makers and can you spell
INTEGRATION if at first they don’t succeed?
So what is missing from the Forbes piece and the Telegeography outlook? How about those folks in Redomnd, WA who brought us Outlook?
The facts are that all traditional providers of premises-based telecommunications equipment need to be doing something more than looking in their rearview mirrors. As the late, great African-American pitcher Satchel Paige used to say, “Don't look back; they might be gaining on you.”
This is not going to be a case of age before beauty. Yes, Microsoft has gotten things wrong in the past. Yes, even IBM managed to mangle the PBX business years ago and exasperated sold out to Siemens. However, time is running out. Technology is moving too fast and the installed base is ready to be yanked out. It is going to be interesting...." - Paul Bernstein TMC
FULL STORY : http://sip-trunking.tmcnet.com/topics/enterprise-voip/articles/235874-pbx-market-shares-microsoft-lync-what-not-yet.htm
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
HTML 5 Rules. Flash is Dead. {Except on Gaming Pcs } Long live HTML5
Adobe is trying to put a positive spin on the news that the company is stopping development on mobile Flash Player. From now on, Adobe will focus on HTML5 and AIR-based native apps for smartphones, while pushing forward with Flash Player on PCs.
"We are super excited about the next generations of HTML5 and Flash," Adobe's Danny Winokur wrote. "...There is already amazing work being done that is pushing the newest boundaries, and we can't wait to see what is still yet to come!"
Props to Adobe for keeping its chin up. But now that the company isn't developing Flash Player for mobile devices, it's only a matter of time before desktop Flash Player fades away as well.
Although desktop computing is still the best way to get work done, people are increasingly turning to smartphones and tablets for leisure. According to Comscore, phones and tablets now account for 7 percent of all U.S. Internet traffic, and that number will surely skyrocket over the next few years, affording less breathing room for desktop Flash.
FULL STORY: http://www.pcworld.com/printable/article/id,243529/printable.html
"We are super excited about the next generations of HTML5 and Flash," Adobe's Danny Winokur wrote. "...There is already amazing work being done that is pushing the newest boundaries, and we can't wait to see what is still yet to come!"
Props to Adobe for keeping its chin up. But now that the company isn't developing Flash Player for mobile devices, it's only a matter of time before desktop Flash Player fades away as well.
Although desktop computing is still the best way to get work done, people are increasingly turning to smartphones and tablets for leisure. According to Comscore, phones and tablets now account for 7 percent of all U.S. Internet traffic, and that number will surely skyrocket over the next few years, affording less breathing room for desktop Flash.
FULL STORY: http://www.pcworld.com/printable/article/id,243529/printable.html
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