In 2004 Mark Zuckerberg was probably not expecting to be worth billions. I was an early 2005 user of TheFacebook.com and found it a fun, fast paced, very well designed web experience. Never though did I think in 2005 that it would be worth billions. With the Initial Public Offering slated to begin shortly [...]
Continue Reading →The people working here at Syntress deal every day in world that is nothing short of magical, but we seldom think of it that way. We work to help people meet needs and harness the potential of computers.
This digital age we live in moves at the speed of light, shifting and changing seemingly [...]
Continue Reading →Asterisk, the leading open source platform for telephony, is adding high definition (HD) media capabilities, including video, as well as better voice and videoconferencing.
Digium, the main corporate sponsor of the open source project. announced Asterisk 10 at the end of October. As this article from InformationWeek explains, whereas Asterisk previously supported 8- and 16-kHz [...]
Continue Reading →When planning a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) solution, you first have to decide if you want your desktops to be highly available.
If the answer is yes, then the next step is figuring out how to accomplish that. To determine your need for high availability computing, you must first understand the components [...]
Continue Reading →10/5/11
Steve Jobs has passed away.
http://www.apple.com/stevejobs/
Commentary from Lane Campbell CEO of Syntress
About two years ago my friend Thomas Ervin decoded the cell phone number from an obfuscated Steve Wozniak business card image on Gizmodo. [...]
Continue Reading →Enterprise storage has clearly become a standard, not just some kind interesting experiment among niche players.
The latest evidence comes by way of Salesforce.com, which just announced that it invested $50 million in Box.net, a leader in storage solutions in the cloud.
It’s not just the small fries that are using Box.net [...]
Continue Reading →There is a range of quality when it comes to VoIP. Cellphone calls run on VoIP, so you have an idea of what I mean by “range of quality.”
But if you are buying, selling, implementing or considering VoIP, how do you decide which to buy, sell, [...]
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