We’ve all heard it said many times that those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it. For that reason, even if no other, it pays to know where technology came from and the problems it was designed originally to solve.

But when Network World ran a recent series of posts on the history of Unified Communications and collaboration, we have to admit we were more interested in the series-ending conclusions and perspective on where we are now and where we are going than we were in the evolution. Especially since the author was Larry Hettick, the Current Analysis analyst. More...

Sprint’s Russ McGuire is featured as one of the Masters of Unified Communications on Network World’s special UC community site, where he answers a series of questions about mobility. More...

Russ McGuire, a fellow Seamless Enterprise blogger, spoke at the Open Mobile Summit a few weeks ago. In his chat about the “Future of the Carrier Deck,” he challenged carriers to move out of the way and stop slowing down the process of innovation. Most carriers are a bottleneck when it comes to bringing new applications to market, McGuire contends.More...