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Avaya, Microsoft & Nortel – Love triangle?

February 28, 2007

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Avaya Inc claims it was offered a Unified Communications partnership by Microsoft ahead of Nortel, but refused to license its call control technology to the operating system giant. You can read the full article here.

‘The moment of truth.’

February 28, 2007

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I had a conversation with some students recently, I was telling them just how hard the environment was and is here in Ottawa. And that while there is a lot of good news the truth is we’re not out of the woods yet. They looked at me like I was from Mars… “have you heard… [Read more…]

Jon’s Phone Tool – New Release – Great Tool.

February 26, 2007

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If you use a Mac and use Softphones (counterpath, Skype, gizmo etc) you probably now how lacking in features these programs are when it come to integration into you mac software. For example – importing contacts from entourage/ Address-book into Skype means an unwieldily contact list is created. It imported some 600 contacts of mine… [Read more…]

Ottawa Citizen Digital Edition

February 26, 2007

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Over the past few weeks I’ve been enjoying having my paper read to me. I’ve also had the joy of not getting my hand dirty with news ink. All thanks to the Ottawa Citizens recently announced Digital Edition The digital edition has some great features for example it can read the stories to you, it… [Read more…]

This should be all over the news tomorrow.

February 25, 2007

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but its pretty interesting stuff.

Sad News: Doug Smeaton has passed away

February 19, 2007

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I just heard the sad news that Doug Smeaton from Semiconductor Insights passed away yesterday in a diving accident. He was 57 and is survived by his wife and three sons. I had known Doug for many years as a friend of my family, on many occasions he had worked with my Father. He always… [Read more…]