Companies’ communications strategies must be agile in a rapidly evolving market
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The tablet that Cisco announced this week raises a number of interesting issues. The first and least important is a note to Cisco marketing: It is not a good idea to name a product something t... More >
The Obama administration must be doing something right, considering the positive response to the plan to free up a 500 MHz of spectrum over the next decade. It’s not often that a proposal is l... More >
Right now, it looks like the fight for supremacy in the mobile application development world is between Google’s Android and Apple, whose iPhone 4 went on sale this week. In the longer term, the fo... More >
The demand for fiber continues to grow, in a variety of venues. I touched on this last week in a post that discussed the sudden market interest in the KDL, Alpheus Communications and Fibertech Netw... More >
The tug of war over how broadband will be regulated is hitting high gear, which is surprising since it soon will be July in Washington, D.C. The FCC, which is trying to negotiate a compromise... More >
Augmented reality (AR) software is set to become the next big thing. At its first anniversary event in Amsterdam last week, AR vendor Layar announced that it has distribution deals in place ... More >
The Internet bubble of the 1990s is legendary for the excesses: People were too optimistic (a polite way of saying too greedy), built too much, started online businesses without properly thinking thi... More >
It is well understood that the transition to Internet protocol (IP) involves a significant shift in technology, business approach and marketing. What isn’t as often pointed out – but is in this eWEE... More >
Battery life remains one of the biggest challenges to the future of 4G networks and advanced smartphones . Smartphones’ ambitious features, combined with demands from faster networks, make upgraded ... More >
The heart and soul of a business telephone system – at least until now – has been the PBX. These hardware and/or software devices are changing rapidly, however: They increasingly are IP-based, moving... More >
Most of the buzz about fiber-to-the-home or fiber-to-the-premises (FTTH and FTTP), quite naturally, comes from Verizon, AT&T and other big providers. They have the marketing budgets and the publi... More >
Note to AT&T and Apple: If the iPad is going to get cracked, find a way of letting the public know that the accounts of New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg and White House Chief of Staff Rahm Eman... More >
One of the most confounding things about government intervention is that the same mistakes seem to be made over and over. One of those problems -- micro-management -- seems to be cropping up again. &... More >
The smart grid, according to all estimates, as well as common sense, is going to be huge. It also is hugely complex – even intimidating. It permeates almost everywhere and is comprised of many uniq... More >
Netbooks may seem to be a fairly simple and straightforward group of devices that sit between the smartphones and laptops. That’s certainly true – and it also is true that the category is growing in... More >
The headlong rush to advanced wireless services is, if anything, accelerating. Tests are proliferating -- Swedish operator TeliaSonera even counseled fellow operators to skip the trials and roll ou... More >
Telepresence and videoconferencing are an increasingly important elements of unified communications and corporate communications. The industry is attempting to confront a major weak spot, which is in... More >
Cisco does a thorough job of predicting traffic trends on the Internet. Of course, as long as those numbers go up – and they certainly do go up – it essentially is Cisco’s way of telling the world ho... More >
The debate about Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) has never been about whether it is needed. The need has been an assumption of every post and article on the subject, including those in the mainst... More >
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