Companies’ communications strategies must be agile in a rapidly evolving market
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There is plenty of economic gloom to go around this Thanksgiving, and the cell phone sector is not immune. This week, Gartner reported that sales during the third quarter increased 6 percent ... More >
Though it clearly would be a good enough justification, I am not writing this post because the name of the town mentioned in this Seattle Times story – Ten Sleep, Wyom. – is so cool. The real reaso... More >
Fixed mobile convergence (FMC) – the integration of Wi-Fi and cellular networking – has a lot to offer. It can cut costs by replacing Wi-Fi for cellular, enhance productivity by making people more re... More >
I’ve posted my opinion on the question of whether the Obama administration will play an aggressive role in rebuilding the nation’s broadband infrastructure. I took a somewhat pessimistic view. I rea... More >
Wireless enterprise communications offers several great, interrelated promises. The first is that wireless inherently is cheaper than its wired alternatives. Secondly, coverage generally is greater. ... More >
There is a well-kept secret to which few people are privy. Being an enterprising journalist, I dug deep and called all my sources. Right on deadline, I was able to beat the odds and piece everything ... More >
It is difficult to overestimate the change that cloud computing is bringing to the way organizations organize their IT infrastructures. In-house procedures developed over generations suddenly are obs... More >
One of the great ongoing and under-reported dramas is the race to keep portable gadgets running a reasonable amount of time. The demands, quite simply, are growing more quickly than traditional batte... More >
Though the tech media portrays LTE and WiMax as competitors, there also is the recognition that a significant drive is under way to marry the two. Indeed, Vodafone CEO Arun Sarin called for just th... More >
IT departments and their parent organizations must make significant decisions on letting employees download and use outside applications. This is a tricky situation: While many of these apps bring va... More >
An understandable but perhaps overlooked ramification of the increase in Web-enablement of mobile devices is the increased importance of mobile browsers. It's not being overlooked by companies... More >
It may be temporary, but it feels good. A victory on the endless battle against spammers was notched this week when McColo, a California hosting company, was switched off by Global Crossing a... More >
The power and communications industries have long flirted and have even gone out on a few dates. To this point, however, no serious romance has taken place. For years, the broadband over power... More >
There has been a lot of commentary on VMware's acquisition of Trango Virtual Processors -- precisely when this happened is a bit unclear, but it was very recently -- and the subsequent announcement ... More >
The year in distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks can be described pretty simply: Bigger, dumber and more dangerous. At least that's the conclusion not in those words, of course reached by Ar... More >
Audio may be at least one of the next battlefields in convergence. At least three companies -- including ubiquitous Microsoft, which is using wideband audio on the Office Communications Server -- are... More >
There is a truism that no form of security is unbreakable. The basic idea is that if humans devised it, humans given enough time and enough CPUs can defeat it. Still, it's an unwelcome surpris... More >
Like most scary stories, what's happening to Express Scripts is compelling. The company has received a letter with the names and vital information including, in some cases, prescription info... More >
The new-kid-on-the-block version of Wi-Fi, 802.11n, offers distinct advantages over existing flavors of the standard. One of the reasons is flexibility: It operates in the 5 GHz spectrum as well as t... More >
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, especially if that knowledge is about virtualization. That's the bottom line of this survey from Clavister , a Swedish firm. The survey, which was conducted ... More >
I've already written that I'm not terribly optimistic that broadband will be a short- or medium-term priority for the Obama presidency. There is just too much to do. That's too bad, because reports ... More >
Unified communications (UC) is and always will be a hard platform to push into the enterprise because it is equal parts concept and technology. This is a challenge because it is difficult to describe... More >
Unified communications and VoIP offer clear advantages. However, no matter how much potential an application has, it'll be a huge drag on organizations if it doesn't work well. Therefore, it's vital ... More >
The decision on whether to outsource security continues to vex decision makers. The great reluctance to cede control to a third party is counterbalanced by the rational thought that a company whose s... More >
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