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Just got back from Bangkok where my wife and I saw a Muay Thai boxing match. I give a little analysis, show some of the fighting, and the crowd. But don't trust my ill informed analysis (e.g. they weren't heavyweights). Read the Wikipedia entry for a clearer understanding of Muay Thai. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muay_thai

By daspark

Tags : MuayThai, bangkok, boxing, kickboxing, thailand

While in Bali with my wife, I tried to get a Myna bird to talk like a Bostonian. Watch the results.

By daspark

Tags : Bali, Boston, Bostonian, mimic, myna

Here's my show report for the second and final day of Interop. I should qualify that it's not necessarily all the news, but it's what I was able to get to on the final day.

By daspark

Tags : CRM, Interop, Interop_NY, UPS, cisco, davidspark, mobile, riverbed, routers

At the end of the show today I spoke with Steve Wylie, general manager of Mobile Business Expo. I just wanted to get his insight on some of the hot issues discussed over the past few days. Not surprisingly, smartphones in the enterprise was a hot topic. It's been a top issue for many years even though we haven't seen adoption taken off at the pace of the talk. But we may be seeing a turning point simply because traditional apps are moving to handheld devices, there's an increase of smartphones in the marketplace, and the introduction of the iPhone and the number of applications available on that device. Other issues we talked about was the feasibility of completely unwiring your office and social networking on mobile devices is the new frontier.

By daspark

Tags : Interop, Interop_NY, iPhone, mobile, mobilebusinessexpo, mobileenterprise, smartphone, stevewylie, wi-fi

I talked with Lenny Heymann, general manager of Interop, the guy who runs the whole show. He's been with the show for years so I asked his perspective of what was the buzz on the show floor.

We talked about cloud computing, virtualization, SaaS, unified messaging, and mobility in the enterprise.

By daspark

Tags : Interop, Interop_NY, cloudcomputing, mobile, mobilebusinessexpo, unifiedmessaging

I sat down for lunch with a few of the attendees and just asked them what they came to Interop for and what they've learned. Everyone was looking for something different: VoIP, VoIP security, Wi-Fi your business, unified communications, ethernet switching, cloud computing, virtualization, and a lot more.

By daspark

Tags : Interop, Interop_NY

For years I've seen online solutions that offer the ability to scan to see what's wrong with your computer. Then it points you to drivers to fix it. Reimage.com offers a complete solution that will scan and fix your computer by downloading and installing necessary updates. It's a reactive software meaning you need to see something's going wrong to request a Reimage.com solution. Costs for a scan for a few users is about $40 per user and it goes down from there.

By daspark

Tags : Interop, Interop_NY

Vidyo is a video conferencing solution that has an intelligent video routing solution that has constant communications between the endpoint (the user) and the router always serving up only the video that's necessary for your endpoint, be it a giant HD screen or a small notebook computer, without transcoding which adds delay to the conference.

By daspark

Tags : Interop, Interop_NY

Tandberg's telepresence lets users divide up and change the view for its telepresence solution. It looks cool, but I wish they didn't have canned video and actually had live people you could interact with like what they did in the LifeStream presentation.

By daspark

Tags : Interop, Interop_NY