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In November, I tuned into some of the keynote speeches at VoiceCon San Francisco.  These VoiceCon events are where  “enterprise communications’  vendors gather to talk about their latest initiatives  desktop business phone systems.  I  really do think there’ll continue to be a separate market in voice and video communications for people who inhabit cubeland.  But  the vendors ruling this shrinking area (Siemens, Mitel, Avayatel, …) are lumbering around like brachiosauruses. There are faster, smaller creatures that will soon take their place. Read more …

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There’s been a long-standing competition  between centralization and distribution, two important but opposing ways of designing computer and communications systems.   With cloud computing (hosted services  in mammoth data centers)  the pendulum is moving back to centralization. There’s also been a similar swinging of paradigms in the telecom world. Read more …

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I’m excited about Google Voice as the next guy. A  few limitations of the “first fully automated email transcription” service have  already been revealed and reported in the tech press. ( The New York Times tech-blogger Dave Gallagher has amusing test results here. ) It’s easy to smirk at the missteps of the awseome computing power that’s at work here.  But there are other service that rely less on server  racks and more on old-fashioned human power to get the job done.
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From despair.com–who else!– comes the ultimate Venn diagram of social media pathologies. Read more …

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