Joe Schurman
Swine Flu + Recession = Microsoft Office Live Meeting
With budgets strapped tight and a widespread fear of an integrated pig cold, this should be an extreme wake-up call to organizations across the globe. We can no longer, from a training, marketing, or meeting perspective, require...
Are Instant Messaging Emoticons the New Age's Hieroglyphics?
I spent a lot of time off the grid this past weekend enjoying my brother's wedding. These days away tend to open up new ideas and fun rhetoric amongst friends and something that came up as part of a conversation I had with one of my...
SMB IP-PBX Review
After a few weeks of sourcing equipment and another couple of weeks in my test lab, I put together a videocast overview of each of the following leading Small/Medium Business IP phone systems to find out some of the key differences...
Dead men walking - The halls of VoiceCon 2009
As I walk through the exhibit hall one more time, I look at the millions of dollars spent in exhibits and staff and wonder if these companies are putting money away to adapt to the sudden transition that will occur within the next...
Reflecting on the Communications Renaissance at VoiceCon 2009
Starting off with my presentation Monday morning and carried through Gurdeep Singh Pall's Wednesday morning, VoiceCon sponsors, attendees, and media have now been briefed with what we call the Communications Renaissance. What does...
Where is Microsoft's booth at VoiceCon?
So, as I walked into the Exhibit Hall today, I noticed a gaping hole where only a black square of carpet full of chairs. So where was Microsoft's exhibition when Cisco and Avaya's booths look like a shopping mall? Although the...
VoiceCon 2009 - First Day!
Post flight and now registered at the largest voice and unified communications event on the planet, I walk into the exhibit hall where every major player in this marketplace begins to configure their booths and demonstrations on the...
Chapter 5 Simply Speaking: The Integration of Speech Recognition with Voice and Unified Communications
Speech vision statement by XD Huang, General Manager, Microsoft Research Communications Innovation CenterEarly on, Microsoft’s initial investment in speech recognition technology was to provide individuals with the ability to...