Random But Pertinent Thoughts
Amazon Kindle Fire is the most sold Android tablet but sales have fallen from 4.8 million in 4Q2011 to 750,000 in 1Q2012.
SBCs and ESBCs are important to the success of VoIP and SIP with Sonus and Acme Packet leading the market.
Apple has more than a winner in the iPad. It has market dominance.
Microsoft and RIM are fighting for third place in the smartphone market. Microsoft will probably win.
RADVISION needed to be purchased by Avaya. It was losing mindshare as a standalone company.
Marketing salaries can be quite promising. A creative director with more than eight years of experience can command a salary of $163,000. (I am assuming that is either on the East Coast, West Coast or Chicago because no one in Dallas is going to pay that.)
Video conferencing with Skype and ooVoo is easy, inexpensive and very rewarding. My Skype ID is David.Byrd.
SIP Trunking and VoIP are the future for communications.
Net neutrality proposals offered during shareholder meetings at Sprint, AT&T and Verizon fail. Big network providers win, consumers lose.
Yahoo! CEO Scott Thompson can demonstrate a lack of integrity by ascribing to a degree he does not have for years and still maintain his job.
Android is forecast to control nearly 50 percent of the smartphone market in 2017 with Apple at 27 percent, according to Ovum.
It takes three-and-a-half hours at 225oF to smoke 10 chickens. I know because I did it last night. And this weekend I have to smoke 17 pounds of salmon, 17 pounds of cheese and 28 pounds of bacon. I need to charge more.
See you on Monday.
David Byrd is vice president of marketing and sales for
Broadvox
, and is responsible for marketing and channel sales programs to SMBs, enterprises and carriers as well as defining the product offering. Prior to joining Broadvox, David was the vice president of Channels and Alliances for Eftia and Telcordia. As director of eBusiness Development with i2 Technologies, he developed major partnerships with many of the leaders in Internet eCommerce and supply chain management. As CEO of Planet Hollywood Online he was a pioneer in using early Internet technologies to build a branded entertainment and eCommerce website company partnered with Planet Hollywood. Having over 20 years of telecom sales and marketing experience, he has held executive positions with Hewlett-Packard, Sprint and Ericsson.
