Did you know that only two percent of Fortune 1000 (F1000) companies are not considering Unified Communications (UC)?  You could say unified communications has indeed arrived. More...

The cool thing about living in the blogosphere and the Twittersphere is how you stumble across new people with new ideas. I recently went to Pam Broviak's blog to read an entry entitled "Cloud Computing and Virtualization Aren't What you Think" and her entry made me realize that the trend toward virtualization is gaining momentum for the same reason that Web 2.0 tagging is. More...

It always feels good to get off to a good start, and the Sprint Business Markets Group (BMG) is doing very well out of the 2010 gate (see Sprint’s quarterly results announcement. Of course, it's also nice to finish strong too-see Super Saver.)More...

Steve Parrott and Priscilla Tate, Director, Technology Managers Forum, connect during the one-day NYC event More...

Is your enterprise ready for unified communications (UC)?

There’s no better time. Between a recession and natural disasters like the Gulf oil spill and the volcano eruption affecting air travel, people are not communicating any less. In fact today, with unified communications, enterprises can communicate more for less. More...

Tomorrow, I’ll be in New York City to speak to the Security Forum event of the Technology Managers Forum, focusing on the topic of “Securing the Wireless Workforce.” It’s a one-day event, and I get to warm up the crowd for the luncheon keynoter. Do hungry people listen better? I sure hope so. More...

I had the pleasure of being part of a 4G panel at Interop last week, moderated by Sue Marek at Fierce. It was well attended by enterprise IT professionals interested in knowing why the market is making such a big fuss about 4G. More...

One of the flashiest aspects of Unified Communications (UC) is telepresence, for a variety of reasons. And it’s a good sign that at least one industry analyst group is predicting that telepresence-specific sales should reach $2.7 billion annually within five years. More...

It's easy to be skeptical when the government says they're going to do something to give businesses a break. But we may have such a case today: the U.S. House of Representatives has passed a bill that, among other things, helps enterprises by easing the recordkeeping requirements for mobile phones and other devices they provide to employees. More...

Ready for broadband wireless access? Do you want it today, or next week, or next month? That’s great, because it’s ready for you, in the form of 4G. Or, you can wait a while … several month at the very least … for LTE.More...