I caught up with Russ Kirk of Grey Convergence at IP08 last week to talk about Unified Communications in the enterprise. Grey has made a name for itself over the last few years, with its specialist team of Microsoft OCS gurus. They are one of around 8 certified Microsoft voice partners in the UK (although many of [...]

The proliferation of mobile devices and mobile users has had an unexpected consequence: e-mail is going non-corporate. Although they will rarely confess to it, many employees are redirecting work e-mails to private e-mail addresses so that they can pick messages up while on the move, either via webmail or mobile devices. Why is that so bad? [...]

It looks like Nortel is taking a leaf out of Juniper Network’s book and going head to head against Cisco with their latest cartoon-esque campaign. Buzzing across traditional media and via the social media chain… “Today’s decision-makers are the most connected, best informed buyers in history,” Lauren Flaherty, chief marketing officer at Nortel.  Too right [...]

For those in the 2.0 world, this week was mostly about the TechCrunch50 – where a bevy of start ups compete to show their wares and try to win TechCrunch love. To cut to the chase, the winner was Yammer. The reason that is note worthy here is that Yammer is an enterprise offering – [...]

There is a fair amount of chatter in the Blogosphere about an apparent shift in Nokia’s VoIP strategy – take this one from GIGAOM: “No VoIP In New Nokia N-Series Phones? Is Nokia Turning Its Back on MobileVoIP?” Nokia has been pushing the envelope on the Fixed-Mobile Convergence front for quite a whole. For those [...]