Category Archives: Unified communication

I used to like telephony

By Dan Pitt | Published: November 30, 2009
The old days I started disassembling phones as a boy, which was a bit risky since only AT&T owned the instrument and you could not go to the store and buy a replacement if you broke it. There was no such thing as spare phones for experimenters. I worked on speech compression in graduate school, and [...]
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My ears are slow

By Dan Pitt | Published: November 27, 2009
The Wall Street Journal recently did a piece on the end of the email era. The Journal maintains that email is too limiting and ineffective compared to the new media, especially the social media. I’ll get into that more in another post (especially regarding Twitter, IM, and text messaging for short, immediate communications) but right now [...]
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  • Welcome to my website. I'm Dan Pitt, a resident of Silicon Valley and enthusiastic champion of new technologies that meet important needs of people and society, focusing on startup companies in the Valley and Australia.

    Perhaps we met at the Plug and Play Tech Center (where my desk is), at Santa Clara University (where I served as Dean of Engineering), or at Nortel, Bay Networks, HP, or IBM. In California, North Carolina, or Switzerland. Or prowling Downtown Palo Alto restaurants, but that's another website.