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Several news items and rumors that have surfaced recently either directly or indirectly involve Skype. The bigger picture is that the acceptance of the service by enterprise vendors – and, by extensi... More >
One of the usual aftermaths of public emergencies is to bemoan what went wrong in communications, make pronouncements about addressing the problems and then watch as nothing happens. The pattern then... More >
Allied Business Intelligence’s latest numbers on the VoIP services market are very interesting. The broad area covered by the report – which includes integrated access, SIP trunking, and hosted and ... More >
The battle between Apple and Android for the hearts and minds of developers shifted slightly in the open source operating system’s favor this month, according to Appcelerator and IDC. Appcelerator ma... More >
Earlier this week, I blogged about the increasing need for mobile security policies. The bookend concern – and one that is highly interrelated – is smartphone security. Smartphone security is,... More >
The FCC voted Thursday to allow white space – the spectrum between television stations – to be used for wireless communications. The moniker most often attached to the technology, “Wi-Fi on steroi... More >
The fast-paced growth of mobility and its impact on corporate security is one of the key topics with which the business community is dealing. A study by Symantec finds something interesting and impor... More >
Twenty or thirty years ago, a description of Google Earth would have elicited from many folks the same kind of reaction this paragraph from a BusinessWeek story probably is garnering today: Some a... More >
Good tidings from Wayne Rash, writing over at CTOEdge. Rash makes the point that 4G services seem to bursting out all over, and that there is significant potential for the two variants – Long Term E... More >
To a great extent, the media lens on the rapid expansion of smartphones in business has focused on the growing popularity of the iPhone and Android devices. The underlying assumption – and one that d... More >
Getting signals from there to here – cellular backhaul – is an exploding market, according to In-Stat . The firm released research this week predicting that almost $117 billion will be spent on this... More >
On Sept. 23, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission is thought likely to vote on whether to allow white space transmissions. White space is the spectrum left over from the move of broadcasters fr... More >
I don’t generally start posts with personal anecdotes, but this one seems appropriate: I went to the ophthalmologist a couple of months ago and, as he slowly went out of focus, we chatted about his r... More >
The most common way of interpreting Apple’s relaxation of its developers' rules and promise to be more transparent in its app-approval process is that it feels compelled to play nicer due to the he... More >
There finally is some good news about IPv6: Executives are realizing that the sky indeed is falling – and that they must do something to prop it up. Of course, the fact that a crisis exists isn’t the... More >
Panda Security has released a sobering, if not downright frightening, study that suggests a quarter of new worms reach computers through USB devices such as cell phones, external hard drives, DVDs, f... More >
The fast-growing smart grid industry offers great advantages for consumers, utilities and the environment. But the other side of the coin – and what this long Greentech feature focuses on – is th... More >
Portable-devices manufacturers must be in pretty good shape, since they have spent so much time during the past few years chasing Apple. The first race, of course, was the one chasing the iPho... More >
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