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UC Alliance Anyone?

The Tech Sector had a rough month in May. Kevin Kelleher of CNN Money asks (but doesn’t answer) the question Why Are Blue Chip Tech Stocks So Blue? Exhibit A, of…

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Big Blue’s Sphere

LotusSphere is an odd name for an event about non-Lotus software. That was just one of the themes from IBM’s (presumably last) LotuSphere 2012, that it is killing  the Lotus…

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Social Blue

IBM is an impressive company – It has lived through more computational generations than any other. The company doesn’t have the fan base of say an Apple, or the fight…

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Cisco and Avaya Leaders Again

Cisco and Avaya were once again identified as industry leaders. This time, by a new IDC worldwide unified communications Marketscape report. The report claims to use a “rigorous scoring methodology…

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Gartner 2012 Predictions

Forbes published an article called The Road Ahead: Gartner’s Outlook for 2012 And Beyond. It offers the reader, in summary/bullet form Gartner’s predictions for the IT sector.  Some of the…

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The iPhone and iPad have broken more records than the iPod did CDs. Microsoft buying Skype was a game changer, but the new game remains a mystery. Here is the…

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IBM Wants Bureaucrats to Socialize More

The IBM Federal Community Cloud just got a little bit more socialable. Last week, IBM introduced a new set of social collaboration tools for Obama’s cloud. President Obama has been…

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IBM Worth A Billion More than Microsoft

It took 15 years. Last Friday, IBM edged out Microsoft on market cap for the first time since April 1996. Great news for IBM, a company that continues to survive…

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ALU’s Silent Auction

Lots of conversation this week about the possibility that Alcatel-Lucent intends to sell its enterprise business unit. I have a few thoughts on the matter. To my knowledge, no one…

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Upcoming Conference: NEC’s Consultant Symposium

NEC is holding their Consultant Symposium in Florida this May and intends to cover these topics: The New UC&C; Architecture NEC’s Vision and Strategy for 2011 Business and Technology Trends…

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Lotusphere

Last week were two very interesting events. Lotusphere and ITExpo. I ended up taking the long way to Flordia, and all in all it was 7 flights over seven days….

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Collaboration Sphere

In There’s A Change Afoot, I wrote the unified communications conversation is changing from voice centric to collaboration centric. Usually I post things as a form a cheap therapy –…

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Can IBM Do Telephony?

Last week I wrote at No Jitter: Lotus Foundations RIP. It was a sad one to write, because I thought Lotus Foundations had legs. It was a reasonable best of…

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