Companies’ communications strategies must be agile in a rapidly evolving market
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The movement of a service from scenarios in which they are owned by the business using them to managed offerings, in which an outside service provider is involved, is a familiar migration in IT and t... More >
during a recent interview . The standard is now able to take advantage of higher-speed Wi-Fi connectivity and a lower power version is coming. I found it odd that Bluetooth, which is so ubiquitous th... More >
The swine flu epidemic that is hitting several places on the globe – from Mexico, where more than 100 people have died – to Queens, NY, where a parochial school closed today because several kids are ... More >
Without a doubt, the highest-profile part of a smartphone is the hardware -- the user interface and the powerful engine within. The real drivers of the new world of super-powerful phones are the appl... More >
Though the immediate target of this comment is AT&T and its quarterly earnings report, the analysis could extend to any wireline telephone company and, with some tweaking, to cable and even cell... More >
It seems that one of the next big things will be 3D Web content. Two heavy hitters – Google and Mozilla (in association with the Khronos group) -- are zeroing in on the sector. This week, Google rele... More >
Ironically, Bluetooth tends to slip off the radar simply because it is ubiquitous. The challenge is to find something exciting or new about a technology that is in so many devices. In this cas... More >
Smartphones are among the healthier of a rather anemic crop of telecommunications products and services this year, so even more attention than usual is being trained on the category. One of the most ... More >
One of the highlights of the Uptime Institute’s Lean, Clean & Green Symposium I attended in New York City this week was the presentation by Chris Malone, Google's Thermal Technologies Architect f... More >
Power: How data centers can most efficiently use it, save it and transport it always has been a driving concern of The Uptime Institute . What’s changed during the past year or so is that the topic ... More >
The finalization of a standard is important. Just ask the folks trying to work through 802.11n. In that context, the femtocell industry passed a major milestone earlier this month when a standard for... More >
eBook devices represent the ultimate in convergence, marrying millenia-old written language with modern telecommunications technology. Right now, Amazon offers the Kindle and Sony the Digital Book. &... More >
The effectiveness of the CAN-SPAM law is the subject of debate. However, any supposed or real limitations aren't stopping Congress from looking to extend it to mobile devices. Many sources, includin... More >
The economic crisis certainly suggests a way of doing things that is not business as usual. That’s great in theory -- we are up against it, after all -- but problems arise when the emergency measures... More >
The marriage of medicine and telecommunications seems to be one made in heaven. That’s ironic, since the goal is to keep people out of that venue for as long as possible. Insiders make a diffe... More >
The race between LTE and WiMax, intriguing before the economy crashed, now is even more interesting. The basic scenario is that WiMax is already is in commercial deployment – with Clearwire’s Clear s... More >
The cable industry, which held its annual conference in Washington, D.C. from April 1 to 3, is facing short- and long-term challenges. The most immediate problem is that, like every other industry, i... More >
The happily overrated Conficker worm is the jumping off point for this piece in Ars Technica , which describes a study aimed at shedding light on another happy fact: Despite the growing sophisticatio... More >
AT&T’s plan to offer subsidized netbooks for $50 (and more, depending on which model the subscriber opts for) raises interesting questions. The most basic is what means to the open access debate.... More >
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