Goodbye London, Hello Bellshill

iOS Update

iOS 5.1 was finally released last night. Get details here. I updated all four of my iOS devices quickly and without any untoward incident. Battery life does seem to have improved somewhat in my iPhone 4s based upon a single morning’s unscientific observation.

The iPad 3 keynote is now live on the Apple homepage.

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Avaya

I had a meeting today with Avaya, one of our communications technology partners. Usually a meeting for me involves trains, planes and automobiles as they are generally held in or around London. I live in Glasgow which is a place most tech companies don’t seem to know exists. I had a total door-to-door journey time of 15 minutes from my home to their office in Bellshill.
The meeting was fascinating as we are getting to grips with they typical large enterprise problems relating to platform proliferation. Industrialisation of platforms and processes is the order of the day and this is not an easy task with voice and communication systems. With a mixture of almost every type and age of PBX you could imagine the challenges are immense. Even where there is a single platform the integration options are limited due to the mixed use of SIP and H.323.

I am not sure where this is going to lead but the journey is starting to look interesting.

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Paradise for Techs

Where to begin?

I spent several hours today working on a strategy for evolving our global voice estate and associated services. We have a mixed estate comprising Avaya, Cisco, Siemens PBXs with limited integration. Even within a single platform such as Avaya there are integration challenges due to the use of both SIP and H.323 in different countries. And let's not even think about the issues with dial plans.

I am meeting our Avaya account manager tomorrow to put the pieces of the puzzle together and agree next steps. He is coming to Glasgow which makes a nice change from me having to travel to London.

Apple Next-Generation iPad Event

I am worrying fascinated by the launch of a device that is probably only going to be a little bit better than the one I already own.

Watching several liveblogs and the best seems to be from engadget.

I can’t imagine why Apple doesn’t stream these events.

iTunes Podcast Management

My mission for today is to get to the bottom of the consistent failure of iTunes to sync podcasts across my iPhone and iPad.

I have tried everything I can think of including completely unsubscribing and resubscribing but it still doesn’t work properly.

Psych Match

Image, a photo by John Robertson on Flickr.

Taken shortly before I was convincingly thrashed at chess.

World War Z

World War Z, a set by tiggtag on Flickr.

Great set of photos I found on flickr showing the transformation of Glasgow city centre into Philadelphia during the filming of World War Z.

New Appley Goodness

Rumours are that we in the UK could see OS X Lion appear in the app store as early as 1AM tomorrow. Hopefully this will be followed by the long-awaited Sandy Bridge MacBook Airs I have been waiting patiently for.