Cool things continue to happen in my writer's world: I've been busy with press releases at work this week. I've written and released another one, and because it's about Microsoft, it's getting a bit of attention.
It's entitled VoIP Strategy Positions Microsoft to Compete in Telecom Market, Says IT Analyst Firm.
I'll post updates on fallout here:
- CFRA News Radio in Ottawa, Ontario just did an interview with me, and it will be on their CFRA Business@Night show between 6 and 7 p.m. (Eastern) tonight. The MP3 of the show will be downloadable from the site afterward.
- 7:00 p.m.: I just finished listening to the interview via streaming audio on my laptop. My Mom was on the phone - an interesting use of different communication technologies to bridge the distance. You can download the MP3 of the interview here. Scroll down to the entry entitled Biz @ Nite - Int. w/ Carmi Levy.
- 7:30 p.m.: Tom's Hardware is leading with this story, Microsoft may enter VoIP telecom market - analyst.
- BusinessWire
- Business Intelligence Network
- TMCnet. They ran the original press release. Now they're running it as a "special report" under one of their contributing editor's bylines. Funny, but I swear I said precisely the same thing in the original release.
- Freshnews.com.
- Yahoo! Finance (UK/Ireland). Second link is here.
- Monitor Today - Ottawa's IT Portal.
- InformationWeek.
- wallstreet:Online (discussion posting...in German).
- Inbox Robot (news service for research professionals).
- AdvancedIPpipeline (via Networking Pipeline/CMP Media).
- etmag.com (via Tom's Hardware).
- CanadaIT.com.
- Communications Business Daily. Headline: Microsoft Said Ready to put its Brand on VoIP market. Link is behind a subscriber's wall, but this one is notable in that an IDC analyst was quoted afterward as agreeing with our position. The tables turn, ever so slightly.
- Globe & Mail (Canada's National Newspaper, via CCN Matthews).
- Talentum. Headline: Microsoft aikoo voip-markkinoille. Yes, this is what I sound like in Finnish.
- IT World Canada. Headline: Telcos should be wary of Microsoft's moves. (Free registration required.) This article was then picked up on the main ITWorld site, as well as Computerworld Australia, PC World Australia, ARNnet, and CIO.com (New Zealand).
- Global VoIP (listing via Topix).
- CRM Today.
- SINA.com. In Japanese.
- Lodestar.com. And Chinese.
- PChome.com. And in Taiwan.
- Telecom Redux. Headline: More on Microsoft VoIP plans. This article is somewhat analytical in tone, and affirms Info-Tech's position relative to that of IDC. The PDF is available here. Here's the intro:
- Second analyst says software giant is on the move. Watch out telcos...
- A second industry analyst company is backing the recent finding by IDC that Microsoft is gearing up for a major push into emerging voice over IP (VoIP) markets. This time, though, the software leviathan is cast as a telco competitor rather than collaborator.
- Chinabit.net.
- N24 (Germany).
- CTIforum.com (from China, I think.)
- PConline.com (Chinese? Can you read this?) ...Info-Tech高级研究员Carmi Levy认为，微软SharePoint升级版和即将发布的...
- Computerworld Hungary. Headline: Távközlés: Óvakodj a Microsoft-tól!
- Netzeitung.de (Germany). Headline: Microsoft mischt im VoIP-Markt mit
- VOIPRankings.com. Headline: Microsoft debates the VoIP market
- Some more Chinese links (someone please explain to me why I seem to pop up in China with such frequency.) a site, an RSS feed, a blog, China News, and China High Tech .
- VOiP News and VoIP News Australia.
- Speech Technology Magazine.
- InternetWeek. A second link is here as well.
- Web Design Directory.
- VoIPmagazine.net.
- Networking Pipeline. Headline: Dial 911 for Microsoft? Another link from this source includes a story in which my name is misspelled as Carmi Levi. Hmm, when reporters can't be bothered to cut and paste correctly off of a press release, you really have to wonder how meticulous they are about everything else they write.
- IP Phone Ratings. Headline: Microsoft debates the VoIP Market VoIP calls.
Congrats, Carmi! When you're a household word, will you remember us little people? :-)
ReplyDeleteAlways, Jeannette. I'm not sure how "big" all of this will ever get, but I don't ever see myself losing perspective to the point that I insist on having the brown M&Ms removed.
ReplyDeleteBut brown M&M's just aren't as tasty as the green ones!
ReplyDeleteStill, I would rather other's not put their fingers all over my M&M's anyhow, I suppose I can tough it out.
Wow, such press! That must feel good!
I knew him when...
I think I'm confused about what you do. I thought you were a journalist. So why do you WRITE press releases? Aren't you supposed to receive them?
ReplyDeleteSorry for the confusion, DeAnn. I'm a freelance journalist, my primary exposure these days coming from my op-ed column in London's major broadsheet as well as a number of other freelance writing assignments.
ReplyDeleteBy day, however, I'm a senior research analyst for a tech research firm. I research and write anything and everything about the technology sector.
Sometimes, I come across neat trends that I write up and release to the media. Then reporters call me and I comment on them. It's quite the hoot, since I get to play both sides of the media fence.