Irwin Lazar's "Real-Time" Blog

Aircell vs. VOIP

Last week American Airlines launched their Aircell wireless Internet access on a limited number of flights. It didn't take long before a few folks tried to make voice and video calls (in violation of Aircell's terms-of-service according to their PR folks), and it didn't take long before someone figured a way around their voice/video blocking efforts.

It's amazing how many times this battle gets fought. Service providers must know by now that people will find a way around their efforts to block applications. And they ought to realize that going after such users is going to create some negative publicity.

I posted some thoughts at the Enterprise 2.0 Blog. Andy Abramson and Dan York have "must read" posts as well.

WSJ: Microsoft hires Seinfeld to bite Apple

A bit of interesting news, especially considering that Apple was a sponsor of the Seinfeld series (you can usually tell how old the episode is by looking at the Mac on Jerry's desk in his apartment)
See: WSJ: Microsoft hires Seinfeld to bite Apple

Video Sees Growth

Sorry, couldn't resist at least some corny pun in the title.

Ken Camp has a nice piece on growth of video adoption. I posted a piece on NoJitter this week on some of the results from our recent benchmarking of over 400 end-user organizations. The bottom line is that video is seeing significant growth in the enterprise.

NoJitter: Get Ready for Video (Finally!)