Companies’ communications strategies must be agile in a rapidly evolving market
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The test of a technologies’ staying power may be its ability to move fluidly between target groups. Wi-Fi, for instance, started off as a consumer offering; only later did it become a potent business... More >
Last week, Gartner released cell phone research that, among other things, showed that the healthiest part of the industry is the smartphone segment . The firm reported dramatic results: Overall cell... More >
The famous sales maxim is that a company is well advised to give away the razor in order to continually sell the blades. While nobody is giving away smartphones – far from it – the real value in the ... More >
Perhaps the greatest guarantee that the technology sector will flourish despite momentary setbacks – such as a bad economy – is the almost unstoppable will of people to innovate. A great example occu... More >
IT Business Edge, along with scores of other sites and publications, has dedicated a lot of electrons to coverage of the swine flu pandemic , which continues to cause problems and, sadly, take a ... More >
Gartner’s mobile phone results from the first quarter of the year contained no big surprises: Times were bad for the overall industry, but pretty good for the smartphone segment. The consultancy sai... More >
Every month or so, it seems, one of the tech sites has a story about some new and promising approach to device powering. This week, for instance, CNet reported on the St. Andrews Air (STAIR) project... More >
The mobilization of everything continues. Indeed, it sometimes seems so natural that the shift goes unnoticed. Until recently, two key areas of interest for enterprise communicators – mobility and co... More >
The transition of 4G from a future technology with great potential to a current standard that is in the early stages of a long-term adoption and deployment cycle is upon us. Last week, WiMax got a b... More >
The machine-to-machine (M2M) market is interesting because it is so big . The idea of having gadgets speak to widgets and gizmos to thingies without human intervention is fascinating, a bit frighten... More >
The momentum to 4G picked up considerably this week as WiMax-based service provider Clearwire entered into a significant agreement with Cisco. The networking company will be the main player in the ... More >
All has been quiet for some time on the introduction of wireless data networking standard proposals. That lull, apparently, has ended. The WiGig Alliance, according to Computerworld , has launched an... More >
One of the clearest signals in a long time that the world has changed is the finding by the National Centers for Health Statistics that the number of cell phone-only households is greater than the nu... More >
There has been a lot written about the use of the iPhone in the enterprise. That’s a good thing, simply because it is a tremendously important topic. The iPhone is the smartphone against which all ot... More >
The most important sentence in this InformationWeek story about Android 1.5, aka Cupcake , is near the bottom. It’s not the writer’s fault, since his main goal was to inform about the Android 1.5 fi... More >
This piece in The New York Times about the remnants of Nikola Tesla’s dream is a poignant reminder that technology initiatives, like all others, can come crashing down if the entrepreneur doesn’t ca... More >
The growth of consumer, enterprise and M2M wireless applications has set the stage for a possible bandwidth shortage. The good news is that people are paying attention to the issue and making prepara... More >
In a world in which Apple and its iPhone are spoken in about in hushed tones of reverence, it’s a bit discordant to see that NPD found that Research in Motion’s BlackBerry Curve, not the iPhone, was... More >
The fear brought on by the changes in technology – more specifically, the leveling of the playing field caused by the adoption of Internet protocol (IP) – is well founded. Technology advances transfo... More >
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