Companies’ communications strategies must be agile in a rapidly evolving market
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Marketers take great care to describe their products – be it a new network, a new piece of equipment or a new applications – in the final, fully deployed and functioning state. The reality is, though... More >
The gradual deployment of 802.11n continues. The process, which was no doubt delayed by the inability of the industry to finish off the standard, seems to be moving along. IT World offers a good sum... More >
Sports writers know that every spring they’ll be able to write about the upcoming baseball season, and movie critics know that there always will be new flicks to review. In the same way, tech and tel... More >
It must be an interesting time to be in the WiMax business. The economy is down and Long Term Evolution (LTE) – the other major 4G entrant – is a looming threat on the horizon. But there is go... More >
Using mobile phones to make payments and banking transactions and as electronic wallets has long been seen as valuable applications by carriers, merchants, financial institutions and device vendors. ... More >
The popularity of the iPhone – and the coming this summer of the iPhone OS 3.0 that will be available as a firmware upgrade – raises the same old questions of whether enterprises should sanction us... More >
The idea of smart grids – the use of a variety of telecommunications and IT technologies to monitor and better manage energy – ties together so many threads of what is going on in the world today tha... More >
The telecommunications industry is weighing in on the broadband element of the stimulus, and its attitude was not hard to predict. The telcos, as reported in this Reuters piece , are asking t... More >
Mobile browsing is big business, but it hasn’t reached the point where the pure creativity – the thing that developers crave – has been completely wrung out of the process. Alas, that day comes for e... More >
Filtering coverage of just about everything through the prism of the dire financial situation is getting a bit old, but it is a necessary exercise. The evolution of telecommunications and IT d... More >
The getting-to-know-you phase is over for smartphones. During the past couple of years, Apple’s iPhone and Android, an open source platform from the Google-led Open Handset Alliance, have established... More >
Last week, I wrote a post that made the observation that the happy little war between the cable and telephone companies is continuing on its merry way . Indeed, the competition between the two indus... More >
As the name implies, passive optical networks (PONs) are ways of distributing signals without any active gear. This is attractive to service providers because chucking the lasers cuts costs and makes... More >
The focus of the war between smartphone manufacturers has largely focused on the user interface and other physical capabilities of the various devices. A related and equally vital battlefield is whic... More >
The question of whether small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are going to get on the unified communications (UC) train has been kicking around for quite some time . The new twist is that if the ... More >
There are a number of interesting questions to ask in reaction to the news that Clearwire has brought in William Morrow to replace CEO Ben Wolff. The interpretation in this TechFlash piece is... More >
The $790 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 has been passed. A variety of overseers will award $7.2 billion in broadband grants and all will be fine. The economy will recover and ... More >
The Obama administration made two important appointments this week. The first-ever federal CIO will play a vital role as Obama and crew seek to transition the radical use of technology during the c... More >
The significant and growing competition in the mobile sector is forcing companies to fight on a daily basis and worry about players that they didn’t have to worry about before. Just ask Steve Ballmer... More >
It doesn’t take a world-class debater to convince folks that mobile device management is growing in importance. Mobile devices are becoming more powerful, the tasks they are used for increasingly are... More >
What recession? The world may be falling apart around them, but smartphones seem to be having a rather good time of it, according to a couple of studies that were released this week. First, In... More >
Now that the financial stimulus package is law, commentators are starting to take a closer look at who likely will be the big winners and losers in the broadband sector once the government actually s... More >
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