Companies’ communications strategies must be agile in a rapidly evolving market
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The good news that the gross domestic product grew 3.5 percent this quarter is a welcome sign that our sinking ship of state may finally be starting to right itself. What is even better is that muc... More >
Power is a significant issue facing vendors and network providers as the complexity and capabilities of mobile devices increases. The dynamic is fairly straightforward: More sophisticated smartphones... More >
If statements from various players are anywhere near accurate, the remainder of this year and 2010 will be see a thousand flowers – or, more accurately, a thousand 4G towers and other transmission fa... More >
Underlying the net neutrality debate is the idea that bandwidth is a limited resource that must be doled out efficiently and, above all, fairly. However, wireless bandwidth is a far more constrained ... More >
Wayne Rash raises two very important and related points in a post at IT Business Edge’s new site CTOEdge. Rash, reacting to the Sidekick data loss, took on the topic of the overall securi... More >
Few ideas emerge that are winners all around. It's certainly nice when one comes along, and one has: The universal phone charger. It's good for the environment, good for mobile productivity and good... More >
The interest in e-readers, which has led to a number of recent announcements, cuts to the core of a very important issue in the rollout of new services. The question focuses on how different o... More >
The Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) is the standards-based way in which telephone connections are made using VoIP. Ringing, connecting and managing the call are controlled by SIP. Think of SIP as t... More >
Wireless and wired TEM are conceptually the same. The idea is that managing things better – both internally and with outside vendors – will save money. Lots of money. There also are side benefits, su... More >
The rationales for the space program that led men to land on the moon included the thirst for knowledge, the fact that sending folks into space is really, really cool and the certainty that the scien... More >
There is little doubt that the telecommunications landscape going forward will increasingly mix Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, 2G, 3G, 3.5G, WiMax, LTE and other approaches to shuttling data to and fro. Th... More >
The best advice for anyone interested in mapping the continually morphing world of mobile devices in the category between cell phones and laptops is to concentrate on mapping something simpler and mo... More >
Last week, I blogged about the good times being experienced by Android, the open source operating system from Google and the rest of the Open Handset Alliance. The post referred to a Gartner study th... More >
It’s a bit counter-intuitive to think of cellular capacity as a limited resource. After all, there is no wire. The reality is, however, that the explosion of smartphones and other cellular-based gadg... More >
Autumn is shaping up to be quite a good time for Android, the open source mobile operating system from the Google-led Open Handset Alliance. Android increasingly is in the news, and the storie... More >
Nothing focuses the telecommunications industry’s collective minds more than the potential for significant rules from the Federal Communications Commission. Late last month, the FCC announced a noti... More >
There are some concepts that just make so much sense that they seem likely to succeed even before too much verifying data is collected. The marriage of cloud computing and mobility is one such idea. ... More >
Over the past decade, we’ve witnessed the birth of broadband, high-definition television, mobility and other increasingly complex, useful and entertaining ways of seeing and hearing over distance. Ea... More >
A report from a Federal Communications Commission task force says that the cost of universal broadband for the United States could be $20 billion to $350 billion. There are two striking thin... More >
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