Apple’s Innovation Falls Short in Product Naming
Apple has a well-earned reputation as an innovator, a company that regularly and repeatedly brings industry-leading designs, products, and technologies to market. Apparently that innovation does not...
View ArticleMagor Offers “Telecollaboration” to SMEs
Some have accused telepresence of being the preserve of the rich. To be sure, room-based telepresence has an exclusive aura, conferred by its prohibitive price and imperious requirement. It is a...
View ArticleApple Isn’t in the Cisco Cius Picture
I don’t want to spend a lot of time on it, but I’ll offer a relatively brief assessment of Cisco’s Cius enterprise-tablet announcement yesterday. Look, folks, the Cius is not competing with the iPad...
View ArticleHP Keeps UCC Options Open
When it comes to unified communications and collaboration (UCC), HP isn’t ready to bet the house on a single partner. It has struck UC-related partnerships with Microsoft, Avaya, and Alcatel-Lucent,...
View ArticleAvaya’s Kennedy Sends Cautious Signals on Post-Nortel Business
Reading between the lines of Avaya CEO Kevin Kennedy’s recent interview with Network World, I have the strong suspicion that revenues from Nortel’s installed base of VoIP and unified communications...
View ArticleLimited Horizons for Cisco Cius
Cisco’s Cius Android-based tablet will be available for purchase later this month, but it’s difficult to envision how or why it would be bought by anybody other than hardcore Cisco shops that have made...
View ArticleOn Further Review, the Cius Still Looks Doomed
I’m returning to the topic of the Cisco Cius, but I promise I won’t make it an obsession. My view of the commercial prospects for the Cius has shifted significantly during the past year, from when...
View ArticleBad and Good in Avaya’s Pending IPO
We don’t know when Avaya will have its IPO, but we learned a couple weeks ago that the company will trade under the symbol ‘AVYA‘ on the New York Stock Exchange. Long before that, back in June, Avaya...
View ArticleNo Word on Avaya’s Long-Pending IPO
Like many other prospective public offerings, Avaya’s pending trick-or-treat IPO would appear to be in suspended animation. The company and its agents wanted to get the deal done this year, but there’s...
View ArticleAvaya IPO? Don’t Count On It
Reports now suggest that Avaya’s pending IPO, which once was mooted to occur this month, might not take place until 2013. Sources who claim to be familiar with the matter told Reuters and Bloomberg...
View ArticleDepartures from Avaya’s Mahogany Row Thicken IPO Plot
My plan was to continue writing posts about software defined networking (SDN). And why not? SDN is controversial (at least in some quarters), innovative, intriguing, and potentially disruptive to...
View ArticleAvaya’s Latest Results Portend Hard Choices
Those of you following the Avaya saga might want to check out the company’s latest quarterly financial results, which are available in a Form 10-Q filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. For...
View ArticleLessons for Cisco in Cius Failure
When news broke late last week that Cisco would discontinue development of its Android-based Cius, I remarked on Twitter that it didn’t take a genius to predict the demise of Cisco’s...
View ArticleAvaya’s Struggles Slip Under Industry Radar
As public companies, Nokia and Research In Motion have drawn considerable press coverage relating to their ongoing struggles. Nary a day passes without a barrage of articles on the latest setbacks and...
View ArticleAvaya Executive Departures, Intrigue Continue
Like many other vendors, Avaya showed off its latest virtualized wares at VMworld in San Francisco this week. While putting its best face forward at VMware’s annual conference and exhibition, Avaya...
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