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Craig Settles probably is worried by this piece in The Wall Street Journal. Last week, the well-known consultant told me in an interview that one of the things leading to a rebirth in municipal Wi... More >
The good news -- and we need all of that we can get -- is that the worldwide financial meltdown is not debilitating every sector of the economy. Infonectics analyst Stéphane Téral says the recessi... More >
Cloud computing is a broadly defined concept that is slowly changing the way organizations operate and the way IT thinks about itself. This long and insightful piece by The Associated Press discus... More >
Wal-Mart began yesterday to sell the iPhone 3G at almost 2,500 stores. The news was expected , but it's a milestone nonetheless. The 8 GB version of the phone will cost $197 and the 16 GB $100 more... More >
Of course, it's a time-honored tradition to make resolutions for the year ahead. Here is a great one think about: Root around in drawers, store rooms and elsewhere and recycle cell phones. And – by a... More >
The use of femtocells will expend during 2009 , but the landscape will continue to be confusing. That's fitting, since the entire telecommunications infrastructure is in the throes of great change. T... More >
The municipal Wi-Fi sector has a pulse. It’s faint, but it’s there. The Wall Street Journal earlier this month outlined the problems and possible salvation of the sector. The problems are wel... More >
The description in this CNET piece and the study upon which it reports leads me to believe that the folks at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and NYU Law School aren’t reading the papers or their hist... More >
Communications applications and platforms tend over time to move between the consumer and business sectors. In the case of mobile messaging, the movement -- in this case a migration from consumer to ... More >
These are tough and interesting times for much of the telecommunications sector. Smartphones, while finding acceptance as an increasingly valuable corporate tool, are by no means immune to the pressu... More >
The survey covered in this story was conducted by Viatel in the UK , but it is food for thought – and perhaps a bit of worry – for SMB VoIP vendors and service providers here in the colonies. ... More >
One of the oldest debates in telecommunications pits the relative value of the network against the content that rides on it. The proliferation of relatively low-cost broadband networks suggests that ... More >
Fifty years from now, some MBA candidate will look at the evolution of the Internet and have a pretty good idea whether the advances and evolutions of technology were part of some grand design forese... More >
There is a pot of wireless voice and data gold at the end of the rainbow, and it's a big one. The question for carriers and service providers is how to get from here to there. The telecommunic... More >
The word was that 4G chips were likely to become available in early 2009. That prediction seems to be about right, as LG announced that it has developed what it says is the first usable chip for Long... More >
A couple of weeks ago I wrote a post suggesting that fixed mobile convergence is progressing reasonably well. I was able to point to a couple of announcements, a case study by OnRelay with positive... More >
The Precursor Group has spiced up an otherwise fairly dull end of the week by releasing a report that says Google uses 21 times more bandwidth than it shells out for. While the idea that Goo... More >
There has been a lot of interest in Internet protocol television (IPTV) from folks who see it as still another great way to distribute programming and from those who wonder what impact it will have o... More >
By all appearances, President-Elect Barack Obama is a broadband kind of guy. Savvy use of the Internet as a fundraising tool was a vital element of his election. As IndyWeek points out , he has rele... More >
It is with a touch of sadness that I move on from the Internet security beat here at IT Business Edge. Online security is, of course, a vital topic. It’s also fun to cover. I love the give and take o... More >
One of the great uses of smartphones in the enterprise is to extend back office customer relationship management (CRM) packages to the field. The ability to do everything (or most things) in planes, ... More >
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