Archive for May, 2010
Did you know that 2001: A Space Odyssey was one of the earliest motion picture depictions of the Videophone? I love this movie, especially this scene…enjoy!
In the last 6 or so months the big G has made a number of aquisitions, approximately 13 (nothing new here), however two of them in particular are of interest to me… Gizmo5 (Nov-09) – a Skype-like business Global IP Solutions (yesterday) – an IP voice/video delivery company My guess (and hopes) are that they are looking to […]
Taken from Brett Johnson’s Blog: On Wednesday May 19th, the Unified Communications Interoperability Forum (UCIF) is announcing its formation. UCIF is a non-profit, open alliance of worldwide technology companies that will develop interoperability profiles, certification, and testing programs in order to enable UC interoperability scenarios. Founding members include Acme Packet, Aspect, AudioCodes, Broadcom, BroadSoft, Brocade, […]
It will come as no surprise to you, if I share a long standing opinion I have regarding the leading business e-mail system (if the leading logo didn’t give it away already). You guessed it, Microsoft Exchange! During my career in IT I have heard of, participated in or influenced many migrations from alternate solutions, the most common being IBM’s […]
Office Communicator recognises “tel:” hyperlinks, these can be embedded within websites i.e. SharePoint or even your Outlook signature and you don’t need to be an HTML wizz to make it work. The following HTML needs to be inserted inside of your page’s body tags i.e. <body></body> <a href=”tel:618″>618</a> The code above will initiate a MOC call […]
As with most Office 2010 beta testers, I was very keen (upon release to web for software assurance customers) to start using the 2010 suite at work. As a result I noticed functionality that I had previously not identified. One example is within the Outlook 2010 contact card and the capability to playback a contact’s name. […]
