We talked the other day about how we disagreed with an analyst’s blog headline that suggested Unified Communications was “failing.” Now we offer Exhibit B, a survey of enterprise IT organizations that reveals some pretty ambitious plans to implement various UC applications not only on desktop and notebook computers, but on mobile devices as well. More...

If you’re lucky, the frenzied pace of business finally starts to drop off about this time of year, and it gives you a rare opportunity to think. Maybe you can finally read that book/e-book you bought/downloaded months ago. Or do some planning for 2012 without as many interruptions. More...

OK, we’ve all had those dreams right? I still remember my nightmares as a six-year-old about getting on the school bus only to realize that I was still wearing my pajamas. This week, a host of companies in Silicon Valley hosted a series of events that I have dubbed “National Wear Your Pajamas to Work Week.”More...

It was a marketing piece, but the pitch for GigaOm’s upcoming “Net:Work” event was hard to dismiss: “Did you get the memo? Your workforce is implementing a multi-billion dollar infrastructure change — by themselves.” I couldn’t put it any more eloquently than that. More...

There are some interesting findings in a new “Benchmark Report” on Unified Communications from Nemertes Research, especially relative to return on investment and mobility. The report (registration required) is based on interviews with 240 IT leaders, so this is front-line intelligence. More...

While the New York Times has a trademark on the term “All The News That’s Fit To Print,” getting a story printed will be less than half the battle going forward. In the future, getting a story read will be the focus of media outlets. The Washington Post recently released a Facebook application it calls a “social reader.” After using it for a while, it is pretty clear that social reading is the wave of the future. More...

It’s pretty clear that you can’t have truly Unified Communications without mobility. And let’s face it, if you don’t have ubiquitous coverage, you don’t really have mobility.

Now, you may be willing to accept the fact that if you’re hiking in Wyoming, or staying in a darling little bed and breakfast in very rural Maine, your coverage is not going to be sufficient to keep you fully connected to the office. But nowhere is it more frustrating to drop a call than when you’re on your own company’s campus, striding from one meeting to another or trying to use that spare couple of minutes to connect with a customer. More...

For the past decade, enterprises have wanted to see more hybrid phones, those that do both cellular and WiFi. While we have been able to demonstrate this approach ad nauseam in the labs, the challenge has been in providing enterprise-class feature/functionality using the technology. My Sprint EVO does both 3G/4G cellular and WiFi, but while I have had Skype client on this phone for a while, I haven’t used it. Let me remedy that… More...

Videoconferencing on an everyday basis has been something that has been “just around the corner” for close to four decades now, and an interesting piece on why it isn’t more common can be found over at InformationWeek.

Writer Kurt Marko poses the question of “why aren’t we all saying ‘can you see me now?’” and comes up with two answers as to why videoconferencing is still a niche technology. One answer is technological, the other cultural. More...

Five years ago, Time Magazine named “You” as its Person of the Year. Shortly thereafter, I started writing an internal blog at Sprint called “CG’s Soapbox.” The blog’s title paid homage to the days when a person would literally grab a wooden box, plop it down on a local street corner and start speaking freely.More...