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Welcome to my website. I am a longtime 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 in Sunnyvale (where I was an executive in residence), 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.
Category Archives: Unified communication
A new office phone: a big step in the right direction
I got to see a demo of the new enterprise desktop phone from Cloud Telecomputers, called the Glass Platform, and it’s a huge step forward from the tired, pedestrian sorrows I saw at VoiceCon. First of all, it’s almost entirely touchscreen (about 8 inches), with two or perhaps three real (but tiny) buttons at the [...]
I used to like telephony
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, [...]
My ears are slow
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 [...]
ONF launches; come see at Interop http://goo.gl/tPZ8X #Interop (via@opennetfound)