Companies’ communications strategies must be agile in a rapidly evolving market
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The cable industry is a business predicated on serving homes. Though the telephone industry has, of course, a huge century-old beach head in the home in the form of legacy voice services, cable multi... More >
The era of using a unique recharger for every device is beginning to come to an end. Nothing should make people happier -- from both a personal annoyance and environmental point of view. Ten d... More >
On June 22, I wrote a post about the growing competition to BlackBerry in the enterprise smartphone sector. In passing, I noted that Agito Networks, which offers a way to use cellular and wireless ... More >
This is really good news. Very powerful companies and small innovative startups are getting into a big battle over a nascent product category. If past is prologue, the companies will scrap and... More >
Climate change, the economy, health care and various odds and ends confront the Obama administration. Telecommunication policy, another sticky issue, is on the horizon. While it isn’t quite as monume... More >
The highest profile news during the past few weeks has been about the Palm Pre and the iPhone 3G S. While the usefulness of these devices in the enterprise has gotten some attention, the initial focu... More >
Like the energy that exists within an atom, eventually liberated by Einstein and The Manhattan Project, there is almost unimaginable potential for VoIP sales locked in very small organizations. There... More >
A study from The Pew Internet & American Life Project validates research from Cisco and The Broadband Forum that was released during the past few weeks. The studies approach the topic in sli... More >
If they are to firmly establish themselves, smart grid and the broader category of green technology will have to reach down and reuse many legacy technologies that are deeply engrained in telecom net... More >
Numbers from The Broadband Forum lend veracity to Cisco’s prediction about how quickly bandwidth usage will rise. It also suggests that content producers and end users should hope that Infonetic’s S... More >
At first glance, a messaging technology that limits participants to 140 characters would seem to have relatively little utility for business. But Twitter is finding its way to be useful in cor... More >
A Forbes piece suggests there are four types of enterprises that may be willing to give the Pre, Palm’s lauded new smartphone , a spin right off the bat. Writer Elizabeth Woyke says that prime Pre ... More >
It’s been a tough time for everyone, but companies are not being short-sighted about their voice communications, according to a new report from Infonetics Research . The report says that cuts... More >
There are many numbers in this eWeek story describing the latest edition of Cisco’s Visual Networking Index. My favorite is that by 2013, the company predicts that there will be 11 billion square fe... More >
It is silly that analysts and journalists have spent so much time wondering if Apple wants to seriously pursue the enterprise market with the iPhone. Of course it does. The only real issue was the pr... More >
The long wait for the Pre ends this weekend. The most immediate comparisons will be -- indeed, already have been – between the new Palm device and the Apple iPhone. Throw Research in Motion's BlackB... More >
The economists and other financial wizards (some of whom were responsible for getting us into this mess in the first place) say the recession is slowly ending and that better times are ahead. The thi... More >
One of the reasons that observers I spoke to for a feature last month think 802.11n will be the final major entry to the 802.11 family – at least for the foreseeable future – is that it is extremel... More >
There is a great deal of uncertainty over which mobile “form factor” – essentially, which type of device – will prove most popular. Will it be the laptop, the smartphone, the mobile Internet device (... More >
No company that allows even moderately sensitive information onto smartphones should disregard or skimp on security. Of course, many folks have made that point before – including former White House ... More >
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