October 26th, 2009

22 Tools to LifeLog Today

Posted by Dave Greenfield @ 2:01 pm

Categories: Uncategorized

Tags: Life, Tool, Data Set, Productivity, Digital Cameras, Digital Photography, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Dave Greenfield

Imagine never forgetting anything. You’d be able to recall that person’s name who you wanted to do business with at the tradeshow or just find those darn keys in the morning. That’s what LifeLogging (aka e-memory) tool is all about. While there was lots of news this week about how the technology will be available next year to help you store you life online we found 21 more tools that let you  LifeLog  today.

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October 24th, 2009

LifeLogging and Love: A Fatal Combination?

Posted by Dave Greenfield @ 1:02 pm

Categories: Uncategorized

Tags: Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Human Resources, Dave Greenfield

News this week came out about a new camera that will let you put your life online. LifeLogging, as this is called, may have adverse effects though for your health….

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October 15th, 2009

Survey: After Sidekick Failure Would You Buy Cloud Services?

Posted by Dave Greenfield @ 10:41 am

Categories: Cloud Computing, Uncategorized

Tags: Survey, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Hardware, Dave Greenfield

Microsoft confirmed this morning that it will begin recovering data for Sidekick users. The move caps off a week of turmoil for cloud computing advocates, which began with Microsoft’s Danger subsidiary announcing the loss of Sidekick data. You can read more about it here and the ensuing law suits here. Now its your turn to tell MIcrosoft what you think about the outage…. Read the rest of this entry »

October 14th, 2009

SharePoint Statistics: The Real Reason Behind SharePoint's Price Tag

Posted by Dave Greenfield @ 4:44 pm

Categories: MOSS, SharePoint, Social Media, Social Networking, Uncategorized

Tags: Microsoft SharePoint, Content Management, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Dave Greenfield

What would you say is the most expensive part of a SharePoint deployment? A recent study by InfoTrends, a consultancy, identified where the money is being spent on SharePoint and where it’s not. The results may surprise you.

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October 12th, 2009

The Hook Up: Internet Dating Meets VoIP

Posted by Dave Greenfield @ 1:42 pm

Categories: Uncategorized

Tags: Phone, Internet, Telecom & Utilities, Dave Greenfield

Oh, this is too funny. See what happens when you mash Internet dating and your phone system.

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October 12th, 2009

7 Ways to Boost Your Productivity By Playing Online

Posted by Dave Greenfield @ 8:25 am

Categories: Uncategorized

Tags: Productivity, Activity, E-mail, Games, Blogging, Online Communications, Personal Technology, Internet, Dave Greenfield

So here you thought gaming was something to hide at work. Now comes new research to suggest that those who play online using the seven below activities actually exhibit higher productivity than those who don’t.

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October 11th, 2009

Android's Weakest Link

Posted by Dave Greenfield @ 8:42 am

Categories: Uncategorized

Tags: Mobile, Advertising & Promotion, Open Source, Marketing, Dave Greenfield

Just as as a slew of Android-based phones are getting ready to hit the market, the open source mobile platform is facing its biggest challenge - itself.

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October 9th, 2009

Should Obama Have Won the Nobel?

Posted by Dave Greenfield @ 6:04 am

Categories: Uncategorized

Tags: Award, Dave Greenfield

This morning President Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. The committee awarded him the honor for “his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.” This would make him the first sitting president to win the award since Woodrow Wilson in 1919. Pretty strong statement. Do you think he should have won the award? Take the poll below and let us know.

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October 6th, 2009

Skype's New Revenue Model

Posted by Dave Greenfield @ 4:00 pm

Categories: Skype, Uncategorized

Tags: Revenue, Skype Technologies S.A., Operational Accounting, Finance, Dave Greenfield

Skype just announced a new kind of advertising-based service. The service is aimed at giving Skype a portion of the $31billion yellow page market. Read the rest of this entry »

October 5th, 2009

A Different Kind of Phone Service

Posted by Dave Greenfield @ 7:25 am

Categories: IP PBX, IP Telephony, Uncategorized, VoIP

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Ari Rabban and I go way back - like five minutes. The president of Phone.com (wouldn’t you like that domain name) has agreed to meet me at the Short Hills Hilton to talk about his newest venture. Rabban is a long time hand in the VoIP space having worked at progenitor of all things VoIP called Vocaltec. He’s can banter away about law and economics (a former lawyer from the Holy Land though that doesn’t make him a Holy Roller) and then dive deep about the intricacies of Internet telephony. But he’s not a techie, he assures. Right.

As all young CEOs, Rabban loves his company. Phone.com is going to revolutionize the way small companies pay for their phone service, he enthuses. The company’s Virtual Office replaces the function of the PBX with an cloud-based phone service. “We provide great customer service, great features and low prices,” he says to me. Pardon me if after hearing a million and two startups say the same thing if I’m not a tad skeptical.

The story isn’t without merit though as I soon learn. Phone.com has added voice-to-text messaging to its Virtual Office service, he tells me. Leave me a voice mail and I get it in my inbox as a e-mail message. Pretty cool.

In September, the company added call recording, call screening, and call voice tagging. With call screening, Virtual Office tells you whose calling when you answer the phone and you can decide whether or not to accept the call. With call tagging, you can associate each of your extensions with a label, such as “marketing”. This is particularly helpful in SMBs when you’re representing different departments. So now when your phone rings, you hear the label (marketing) and can answer appropriately. (”Hi, this is the marketing department. Can I help you?”).

Rabban  leans back. We’re about finished talking and I need to book. I move to leave the hotel lobby and run past as the Hilton front desk as hear her answer the phone saying “Front Desk”. Call tagging in use? I wonder. Probably not. The Hilton is too big for that, but not for my office and  probably not yours.