April 29, 2010
HP and Palm -- and Ke$ha and McCain
When a big deal happens, either in dollars or in the profile of the companies involved,. the best -- but perhaps most difficult -- thing to do is sit back and just see how it works out. Bloggers woul... More >
April 28, 2010
Seeing Beyond the Numbers on UC
Over at CTO Edge, blogger Charlene O’Hanlon posted an illuminating survey done by the Webtorials Analyst Group on behalf of the International Alliance of Avaya Users. The slides, and Charlene... More >
April 27, 2010
The Surprising Cable Industry
There is little argument that the cable industry has done a marvelous job in reaching as many consumer households and small and medium-size businesses with its services. The industry has seamlessly e... More >
April 26, 2010
FTTH Will Grow Despite the FiOS Slowdown
The only constant is change. That axiom will again be shown to be true during the next months as the nature of fiber-to-the-premises changes and, perhaps, reaches another stage of development. ... More >
April 23, 2010
The Recession is Over for VoIP
The framing Jim Hodges uses in this story describing an update to Heavy Reading’s IP Network Transformation Market Tracker – a long name for a tool that looks at the deployment of VoIP worldwide – i... More >
April 22, 2010
The Evolving Smart Grid a Reason to Smile on Earth Day
This CNET piece, posted to commemorate Earth Day, doesn’t focus directly on telecommunications and IT. It does make the connection at the end, however. In any case, it’s a worthwhile and interesting... More >
April 21, 2010
The Play's the Thing, Whether it's Delivered by a Telco, Cable or Over the Web
Consider what is going through the minds of cable and telco executives as look at the following statistics: iSuppli says the shipments of IPTV set-top boxes (STBs) worldwide will rise by 48.... More >
April 20, 2010
Ash Cloud: A Transformative Event for Audio and Video Conferencing
During the past few days, there have been many stories, features and posts that describe the spike of business being enjoyed by video conferencing and telepresence service providers due to the ash cl... More >
April 19, 2010
Two Awful Anniversaries Point to the Need for Robust First-Responder Networks
In most cases when terrible things happen, the impact of those events could have been mitigated if certain steps had been taken the last time something similar happened. There is an outcry to use co... More >
April 15, 2010
The Status of the National Broadband Plan Will Sort Itself Out
Don’t pay too much attention to what people say about the Federal Communications Commission's ability to push through the National Broadband Plan. Pay attention only to what the government ends up do... More >
April 14, 2010
Unless Used Correctly, Electronic Health Records Are a Placebo
E-health is a hot topic. Anything having to do with health care is, of course. In addition to having a huge profile because of the recently ended health care reform debate, both the broadband stimulu... More >
April 13, 2010
BPL -- and the Need for it -- Fade Away
The quiet ending of the broadband over powerline (BPL) initiative in Manassas, Va., says as much about how far the telecommunications industry has come as it does about the potential of the platform.... More >
April 12, 2010
Getting it Right on Rural Broadband
Two things can be concluded from this very interesting Associated Press story on a dustup over a broadband stimulus award posted at siliconvalley.com over the weekend. One is that few things in lif... More >
April 9, 2010
The iPhone OS 4.0 and Battery Life
One of the reasons that the iPhone operating systems to date didn’t include widespread multitasking – the capability to run multiple applications simultaneously – is that it takes a bite out of batte... More >
April 8, 2010
Android Moves to Control Fragmentation
There seems to be some movement, but no solution, to the problem of Android fragmentation. However, one blogger – who also happens to be the CEO of mobile open source company Funambol – doesn’t think... More >
April 7, 2010
Forget About the Device -- Use Encryption to Protect the Data
Wayne Rash had a nice post over at CTO Edge last week on the challenges of managing the multiplying types of smartphones that are wending their way into the enterprise. And, unlike a lot of bloggers... More >
April 6, 2010
With Comcast Ruling Struck Down, the FCC Has Had Better Days
The wheels of justice grind slowly, and it will take some time to determine the real world impact is of the decision by the United States District Court for the District of Columbia – which this Dai... More >
April 5, 2010
Heavyweight Companies to Obama: Providing Energy Info to Customers Vital
Just how hot is smart grid technology in general and home energy monitoring specifically? There is no definitive answer, of course. But an inkling of the level of interest it is generating is evident... More >
April 1, 2010
Here Come the Femtocells, Finally
Perhaps the thought occurs to me because the baseball season is starting this weekend. Femtocells, like young players with stellar minor league statistics but middling early careers, face a crossroad... More >
