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February 8, 2010

Underlying Network Is out of Sight, but Shouldn't Be out of Mind

Technology rolls out in two interrelated ways: The bits and bytes and the marketing. In the best rollouts, these happen in synch, or close to it.   The lead always is the marketing side. Whether... More >

February 4, 2010

The Smart Grid Is Heavy -- Very Heavy -- On Potential

The mutually beneficial relationship among the telecommunications, IT and power industries surrounding smart grid got a boost today as Current Group and Verizon agreed to work together to provide e... More >

February 3, 2010

Do Recent Events Vindicate FTTN Approaches?

One of the more interesting debates of the past few years was whether telephone carriers moving to fiber architectures are best off deploying it all the way to the end customer or stopping short of t... More >

The 8 Benefits of Adopting SFA

This checklist provides a list of the benefits sales force automation (SFA) brings; if three or four address pain points in your company, then you're probably ready to bring SFA into your organization.

Pen-based Computing in Higher Education

This video takes a look at the impact pen-based computing with tablet PCs is having on higher education and why IT professionals in higher education should introduce this technology to key decision makers.

February 2, 2010

Mobile Phones: Blue Skies, Nothing but Blue Skies

Three analyst shops reported mobile phone results during the past week, and the collective verdict is that the market is looking up after a long period of struggle. ABI research said that the fourth ... More >

February 1, 2010

Apple's Big Week

It was a fun week to be an Apple watcher. In addition to Thursday’s introduction of the iPad, the company relented and allowed VoIP over 3G applications on the iPhone.   The two are not directly... More >

January 29, 2010

WiMax, the Other 4G Technology, Keeps Pushing Ahead

Most of the recent attention in the 4G sector has been garnered by Long Term Evolution (LTE), the strangely named technology that is being rolled out by AT&T and Verizon Wireless , among other p... More >

January 28, 2010

AT&T, Verizon Have Good Wireless Quarters

It's been apparent for a long time that the fate of the big carriers will be determined by how well they do in wireless. Still, It's striking to consider how quickly the emphasis has shifted. Quarter... More >

January 27, 2010

Too Early to Gauge Smartphone Market Growth

The introduction of the iPad reinforces the idea that the mobile space is chaotic and can be disrupted by breakthrough products and dynamic changes in the underlying platforms. Nobody knows what is ... More >

January 26, 2010

Guard Against Vulnerabilities Introduced by Home Networks

It’s clear that the home of the 21st century will be wired and networked. Preparing for this must be a central theme for folks who write corporate policies for people who work at home and the decisio... More >

January 25, 2010

VoIP Looks for a Home on 3G Networks

Common sense says that it will only be a matter of time before VoIP finds a home on 3G networks. But, according to this GigaOm piece , it isn't such a sure thing, at least in the short term. Writes ... More >

January 21, 2010

IPv4 Address Depletion Growing Dire

When they were in school, engineers and executives of telecommunications companies probably did like the rest of us and waited until the last minute to write papers and study for tests. Perhaps they ... More >

January 20, 2010

Avaya Puts Its Chips on SIP

Avaya’s close embrace of the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) in its roadmap, which features the integration of the holdings of Nortel Enterprise Solutions that it won at auction late last year, di... More >

January 19, 2010

The iPhone 4.0, with Multitasking, May Be on the Way

One of the pithier sayings in the tech world is that the pioneers are the ones with the arrows in their backs. The people and companies that step forward with the greatest innovations are in the most... More >

January 15, 2010

Smartphones in Business: Now Comes the Flood

The fate of smartphones in the enterprise still is a bit fuzzy. Certainly, many are there and others will move in at an accelerating pace. The question, which has been asked since Research in Motion... More >

Vendors Use CES to Push e-Readers

The e-reader category was hot at the Consumer Electronics Show earlier this month in Las Vegas.   The category really extends over the worlds of e-readers , e-ink and e-paper . These are dis... More >