Companies’ communications strategies must be agile in a rapidly evolving market
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Somewhere, a bunch of planners should take the afternoon off, designate a driver and buy each other a beer or two. The cause for celebration is the finalization earlier this month of the 802.11n Wi-F... More >
Gartner yesterday released a study that suggests 20 percent of worldwide residents will have broadband access by the end of the year. That's one out of every five households from Antarctica to Ameri... More >
The famously fun and fractious world of smartphones offers tremendous potential advantages to businesses. It also offers a tremendous amount of confusion. IT Business Edge blogger Mike Vizard ... More >
Industry observers who say that the most interesting fight over net neutrality – the limits to which carriers are allowed to control the data flowing through their networks – will be on the wireless... More >
In the real world, of course, people use Skype for business all the time. Over the past several months, the company has positioned itself to become more of an “official” corporate play. That’s certai... More >
Even when bad things happen – such as the financial meltdown of the past couple of years – some types of businesses thrive. At times, they thrive because of the problems that are occurring. Think of ... More >
One of the biggest growth areas of the next few years will be remote support. It seems that all the sign posts are pointing in the right direction for this relatively small and diffuse sector,... More >
There is good, though not unexpected, news from the Federal Communications Commission. PC World and other sites and publications report that the commission is releasing a notice of proposed rulemak... More >
The original definition of the digital divide, which was heard a decade or so ago, was the gulf between people who had online access and those who didn’t. The definition has gradually changed.... More >
There will be a great deal of maneuvering as the Federal Communications Commission defines broadband, works out a national broadband plan, and helps figure out how to dole out funds from the American... More >
Regulators have it easy when it comes to cigarettes. It's very difficult for somebody not employed by the tobacco industry to suggest that walking around with something in one's mouth that is red hot... More >
People using their iPhones for business must pay particularly close attention to its security features. The scorecard at this point seems a bit mixed. While the company has released a security update... More >
There may be a lot of smiling faces next week in Chicago as the 4G World conference convenes in an atmosphere that favors the upgrading of cellular in general and the move to this newest platform – w... More >
The legacy thinking – which is a fancy way of saying the way old fogies look at things – is that home networks are nice and simple connections that make it possible for a PC over here on the desk to ... More >
Cable operators have a dream, and they’ve had it for a long time. The dream is that they will branch off from their traditional residential customer base and begin serving businesses. The dream start... More >
As smartphones grow more sophisticated, application stores – the online sites from which users download free or for-fee applications – are becoming as much a metric for business and consumer shoppers... More >
If the number of Google listings on the topic is any indication, enterprise and small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are doing a poor job of developing and instituting mobile policies and procedu... More >
Two of the more interesting mini-dramas to watch during the next six months or so involve how quickly AT&T loses its iPhone exclusivity and what price, if any, the carrier pays for the problems i... More >
Marketers, vendors, carriers and service providers all should pay very close attention to a survey from Forrester Research and analysis of it by The New York Times. The bottom line is that during the... More >
Perhaps no company in recent memory has had as strange a trek as Skype. Its core VoIP offering has always been more or less successful. The problem, of course, is that the company's performance was m... More >
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