tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33409251303810439442024-03-05T08:02:32.868+02:00Nick on ITCalling IT and Telecoms professionals on VoIP, SIP, IT, and Web securityNick Galeahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15807733715925574961noreply@blogger.comBlogger86125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3340925130381043944.post-82655599943054080192016-04-21T08:35:00.000+03:002016-04-21T08:35:00.467+03:00Mitel buys Polycom, Quo Vadis Cisco Call Manager?
Its been a while since i last posted on this blog - but i just had to write about the Polycom Mitel merger. Mitel bought a great brand at a great valuation, well done to Mitel. But enough about that.hat astonishes me most is that Cisco didn't buy Polycom at that price. After all, it gives them enterprise customers, video conferencing technology. It gets them right into the heart of the Nick Galeahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15807733715925574961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3340925130381043944.post-83178227064516021092014-10-11T09:14:00.000+03:002014-10-11T10:15:33.352+03:00Microsoft Re energized with Satya Nadella
Watching Microsoft this year i have seen a massive change - new CEO Satya Nadella has managed to re-energize the company, clearly focusing it on PRODUCT. Good marketing, sales, product support and investor relations are nice to have, but first and foremost a companies CEO should be working on the products it sells. Doing just that - Satya Nadella has managed to reenthuse its customers, Nick Galeahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15807733715925574961noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3340925130381043944.post-84158865349203296412013-09-03T12:08:00.001+03:002013-09-03T12:08:06.258+03:00Microsoft marries Nokia, finally!
Ballmer and Elop finally get it together and have announced that Microsoft will be buying Nokias mobile phone business. The deal comes at a time that Steve Ballmer is stepping down as CEO. Stephen Elop, Nokia CEO and ex Microsoft, under fire by Nokia shareholders for focusing too much on Microsoft technology, looks set to become the new Microsoft CEO.
The Microsoft purchase is an obvious Nick Galeahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15807733715925574961noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3340925130381043944.post-12213208229693052772012-08-02T08:51:00.001+03:002012-08-02T08:51:18.433+03:00HP stops VCX (formerly 3com NBX) VoIP PBX line
It’s been announced some time ago and widely expected, but recently HP finally pulled the plug on its VoIP PBX product, HP VCX. This product had received little investment over the last few years and had dwindling sales, so who cares?
Well there is still a significant amount of customers out there that run the platform and made major investments into it. As it’s a proprietary platform, Nick Galeahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15807733715925574961noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3340925130381043944.post-5450438418098038002012-06-06T09:50:00.001+03:002012-06-06T09:54:20.608+03:00Acunetix WebsiteDefender released
Two years of work has come to fruition with the release of Acunetix WebsiteDefender – a service to secure your website against hackers and malware. Where as Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner was designed for companies that have custom web applications, WebsiteDefender was designed to help smaller companies that use “out of the box” web applications keep their websites secure.
Nick Galeahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15807733715925574961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3340925130381043944.post-32760864034719941312012-05-27T08:43:00.000+03:002012-05-27T08:43:41.190+03:00Facebook is the next Google
I have been quietly collecting Facebook shares in the past few days. At $31 – 32 they are reasonably priced. Never mind how the IPO went. Yes, at $38 the shares were a bit expensive, but then Facebook is no ordinary company.
Facebook is a big thing. Bigger then Google was ten years ago when it went public. In number of users, Facebook is the third biggest country in the world.Nick Galeahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15807733715925574961noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3340925130381043944.post-68534845014570409692011-10-08T18:18:00.004+03:002011-10-11T14:51:18.905+03:00Micosoft – Server OS maker par excellenceMicrosoft gets a lot of flak for its many lame products. It’s difficult to decide which is the lamest of all. The Me too Windows Phone, the pathetic Bing or the “so NOT “ Microsoft Live? Or maybe the Windows desktop OS? Its on death row, its head neatly greased, and waits happily and patiently to be executed - even though it will take years. And Microsoft Office can now be DONE online, but cant Nick Galeahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15807733715925574961noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3340925130381043944.post-45083087486973856022011-09-16T07:45:00.007+03:002011-09-16T08:03:43.038+03:00HTC Wildfire S frees me of iTunes <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:"MS 明朝"; panose-1:0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0; mso-font-charset:128; mso-generic-font-family:roman; mso-font-format:other; mso-font-pitch:fixed; mso-font-signature:1 134676480 16 0 131072 0;} @font-face {font-family:"MS 明朝"; panose-1:0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0; mso-font-charset:128; mso-generic-font-family:roman; mso-font-format:other; Nick Galeahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15807733715925574961noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3340925130381043944.post-18271881030784996192011-08-28T08:55:00.002+03:002011-08-28T08:58:06.809+03:00Google buys Motorola and secures android market growth
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The infrastructure is decent, but linux based, and the technology cant be worth Nick Galeahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15807733715925574961noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3340925130381043944.post-82884021366434018002011-03-21T20:07:00.006+02:002011-03-21T20:25:14.487+02:00Website Defender - New online website security serviceI’m proud to announce a completely new product from the Acunetix team - our new online website security service, WebsiteDefender. WebsiteDefender will protect your website from malware and hackers by scanning for security issues such as outdated or insecure Wordpress plug ins and by monitoring your website for suspicious activity.WebsiteDefender is one of the first and definitely the most featureNick Galeahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15807733715925574961noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3340925130381043944.post-11208131581551538592011-03-18T21:09:00.002+02:002011-03-18T21:10:25.838+02:003CX Phone System V10 BETA availableFinally! 3CX Phone System v10 Beta 1 is out of the door. V10 is a major release, with an all new – Silverlight based – user portal, 3CX MyPhone. The new 3CX MyPhone replaces the 3CX Assistant and the old 3CX MyPhone portal. Everything is now grouped in one easy to use portal. The new 3CX MyPhone is web based, but can be installed as a desktop application. In this mode it uses the browser in Nick Galeahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15807733715925574961noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3340925130381043944.post-76798891647163776152011-02-10T07:33:00.010+02:002011-02-10T13:47:33.009+02:00Microsoft and Nokia to marry?There is a rumour going around that Microsoft and Nokia are courting each other. A partnership would make perfect sense. Microsoft and Nokia are both loosing the battle for the Smartphone / Tablet market. Apple iPhone is the cream of the crop, with a far superior product. Android is rapidly gaining market share because it more or less does what iPhone does (without the finesse, style, and class) Nick Galeahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15807733715925574961noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3340925130381043944.post-62721671168200016702011-01-31T15:53:00.005+02:002011-01-31T16:11:05.808+02:003CXPhone for iPhone available via Appstore!We finally released 3CXPhone for iPhone - the first free SIP VoIP Phone for iPhone that does not tie you to a particular PBX or VoIP provider. It took us a while - iPhone development is not trivial and we also wanted to have a good first version. 3CXPhone for iPhone shines with its provisioning feature - users of 3CX Phone System can have the phone automatically configured without having to worryNick Galeahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15807733715925574961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3340925130381043944.post-51960518089024877322010-11-12T11:58:00.004+02:002010-11-12T12:11:48.603+02:003CXPhone for Iphone available!We got our 3CXPhone for Iphone approved and its now available from the Apple Appstore. Pretty cool! The app makes it easy to answer your extension from anywhere using your Apple Iphone, Itouch or Ipad - using either wireless or 3G.3CXPhone for Iphone requires iOS 4.0 and up (4.1 preferred)and works seamlessly on any iOS apple device. One of the nice things about the Apple platform is that the Nick Galeahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15807733715925574961noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3340925130381043944.post-64090327459918880072010-08-03T11:09:00.007+03:002010-08-03T15:42:28.211+03:00Android powers aheadAndroid is taking the smart phone market by storm. The graph above shows the latest data from Nielsen - pretty self explanatory. Android (green line in graph) market share up to 27% , actually overtaking Iphone for the first time too. RIM Blackberry and Windows Mobile are sinking fast. What's amazing is how fast Androids market share is growing.Its an easy guess who will be leading the smartphoneNick Galeahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15807733715925574961noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3340925130381043944.post-748096095083347942010-07-13T14:49:00.004+03:002010-07-14T11:53:37.418+03:00Sony ericsson proves Nokia wrong?Whilst Nokia have insisted on “their” Symbian as the OS for their phones, Sony Ericsson have decided for Android and just launched 3 Android phones: the Sony X10 Xperia, X10 mini and X10 mini Pro. I guess Nokia must feel it can not differentiate on the hardware alone and must “own” the OS too, whereas Sony is confident it can still differentiate with good hardware and a standards based OS. And inNick Galeahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15807733715925574961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3340925130381043944.post-37002870840944329202010-06-29T16:41:00.004+03:002010-06-29T17:04:20.556+03:003CX launches softphone for AndroidAndroid is clearly going places and my guess is that Android Smartphones will be the "Desk phones" of the future, delivering true, seamless mobility to employees. In the office you will dock your Smartphone and allow it to charge - and use the phone with a bluetooth headset. The touchscreens offer usability far beyond the usability of current desk phones. When not in the office, you can use your Nick Galeahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15807733715925574961noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3340925130381043944.post-23003121677800200032010-06-09T13:19:00.003+03:002010-06-09T13:30:35.542+03:00MS CEO Steve Ballmer on the iPadI should have posted this video with my last blog post, but seeing it again its crystal clear to me that Steven Ballmer is not seeing the threat of tablets and smartphones to the PC. Clearly Steve Jobs lost the 'battle of the PC', so what he is doing now is obsoleting the PC.... A process that will take quite a few years but its well underway. The Windows client needs to get mobile and fast!Nick Galeahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15807733715925574961noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3340925130381043944.post-15965434613596802622010-06-06T11:00:00.012+03:002010-06-06T18:59:28.866+03:00Android and Iphone/Ipad/Itouch - the future consumer OS?I was reading Steve Ballmers comments at the D8 Conference in Rancho Palos Verdes, California, recently in which he said that Microsoft will win the tablet race and beat Ipad and Android tablets. He also said the desktop PC/Notebook is here to stay claiming that tablets will be purchased in addition to your notebook or desktop. I’d disagree.As Android and the Iphone/Itouch/Ipad OS become more andNick Galeahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15807733715925574961noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3340925130381043944.post-80851783669110476322010-03-27T13:39:00.014+02:002010-03-27T14:30:06.387+02:00Microsoft endorses software based PBX for WindowsLast week Microsoft announced that the next version of Microsoft OCS 2007 will include PBX functionality and will be renamed to Communications Server. The product will be released some time late this year.So what does this mean to the PBX market and in particular to 3CX and our partners? Well first and foremost it’s a huge endorsement of what we have been doing until now: The market is heading Nick Galeahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15807733715925574961noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3340925130381043944.post-21064312480875228382010-01-06T12:16:00.006+02:002010-01-06T12:23:12.621+02:00Windows is Back!As a long time Windows user, I remember the early versions - Windows 3.1 was a real breakthrough not only for Microsoft, but also for the industry. It brought a visual interface within reach of ‘the masses’ and spurred on the software industry. Four years later another giant step forward was made with the multi-tasking and ultra stable Windows NT 3.51/4.Since then the progress has been down Nick Galeahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15807733715925574961noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3340925130381043944.post-63333527599210256512009-11-22T10:09:00.003+02:002009-11-22T10:16:59.740+02:00Tweeting is for birdsTwitter is becoming ever more popular, but I for one am not a fan of twitter. Millions of Twitterers (I am resisting the temptation to shorten that to “Twits”) just chirping mostly pointless “tweets” every day, or re-tweeting other tweets. But to me the verb tweeting is linked to a bird (and in fact it’s the twitter logo) – not the most intelligent of animals. Granted I do not know much about Nick Galeahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15807733715925574961noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3340925130381043944.post-33730234111386565542009-10-02T05:16:00.005+03:002009-10-02T05:35:37.611+03:00Cisco buys Tandberg for $3 BillionTandberg. T-a-n-d-b-e-r-g. Their big in video conferencing. In Sweden. Yes thats 3 billion. 3,000,000,000. No, not 3 million. Yes, for Tandberg.Cisco moves in mysterious ways. A couple of weeks ago Cisco could have bought Nortel customer base and engineers for a mere $900 million. And move over all those customers to Cisco Callmanager. It decided otherwise. Today it spends 3 billion on Nick Galeahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15807733715925574961noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3340925130381043944.post-52686004256927768872009-09-14T17:42:00.007+03:002009-09-16T15:50:12.769+03:00Skype - Two weeks after the buy outSince Skype was bought 2 weeks ago, i have already noticed quite a number changes at Skype in a relatively short period of time. Not sure if these were all initiated after the purchase but still.....First of all, friday the Skype Extras program was stopped. A mail was sent last friday (11 September) that effective 11 September (yes the same day) the extras program would be cancelled and removed Nick Galeahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15807733715925574961noreply@blogger.com4