http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/weinschenk * Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:36:29 GMT Clearspace 2.5.5 (http://jivesoftware.com/products/clearspace/) 2009-11-05T17:36:29Z http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/weinschenk/lte-begins-to-make-its-voice-heard/?cs=37276 The down and dirty work of actually making all othe promised applications and functions of a modern telecommunications system come to life is well under way.   This week, Converged Network Digest reports , a number of vendors and network service lte 4g at&t alcatel-lucent samsung orange nokia long_term_evolution teliasonera business_technology verizon Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:25:02 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/weinschenk/lte-begins-to-make-its-voice-heard/?cs=37276 2009-11-05T18:25:02Z 2 days, 3 hours ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/weinschenk/comment/lte-begins-to-make-its-voice-heard http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/weinschenk/feeds/comments?blogPost=37276 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/weinschenk/more-smartphones-lower-prices-drive-competitive-change/?cs=37190 One extremely important element in the future of the smartphone market is, of course, how much devices will cost. On one level, that’s a self-evident statement. But precisely how the world of pricing evolves -- and whether the customer eventually pays iphone sprint_nextel technology_markets apple htc smartphones droid android business_technology motorola blackberry Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:57:47 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/weinschenk/more-smartphones-lower-prices-drive-competitive-change/?cs=37190 2009-11-03T21:57:47Z 4 days, 5 hours ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/weinschenk/comment/more-smartphones-lower-prices-drive-competitive-change http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/weinschenk/feeds/comments?blogPost=37190 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/weinschenk/listen-up-voice-recognition-ready-for-prime-time/?cs=37165 Look – or, rather listen -- for voice recognition to become a much more central user interface during the next couple of years.   Zig Serafin, general manager for Unified Communications Group at Microsoft, sounded the clarion call for voice. He was apple microsoft business_technology mobile_applications research_and_development voice_recognition google samsung Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:57:02 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/weinschenk/listen-up-voice-recognition-ready-for-prime-time/?cs=37165 2009-11-02T19:57:02Z 5 days, 5 hours ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/weinschenk/comment/listen-up-voice-recognition-ready-for-prime-time http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/weinschenk/feeds/comments?blogPost=37165 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/weinschenk/the-great-promise-of-smart-grid-begins-to-be-realized/?cs=37142 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 much of the stimulus money the government is handing out long_term_evolution american_reinvestment_and_recovery_act stimulus_package wimax 4g lte arra business_technology smart_grid Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:50:11 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/weinschenk/the-great-promise-of-smart-grid-begins-to-be-realized/?cs=37142 2009-10-30T19:50:11Z 1 week, 1 day ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/weinschenk/comment/the-great-promise-of-smart-grid-begins-to-be-realized http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/weinschenk/feeds/comments?blogPost=37142 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/weinschenk/power-plays/?cs=37090 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, laptops and assorted other devices demand more power lithion-ion direct_methanol_fuel_cells power_supplies research_and_development toshiba business_technology Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:25:18 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/weinschenk/power-plays/?cs=37090 2009-10-30T13:25:18Z 1 week, 2 days ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/weinschenk/comment/power-plays http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/weinschenk/feeds/comments?blogPost=37090 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/weinschenk/for-4g-its-go-time/?cs=37008 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 facilities – bloom.   Yesterday, I posted on the lte 4g verizon business_technology broadband_services wimax clearwire Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:13:39 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/weinschenk/for-4g-its-go-time/?cs=37008 2009-10-27T21:13:39Z 1 week, 4 days ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/weinschenk/comment/for-4g-its-go-time http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/weinschenk/feeds/comments?blogPost=37008 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/weinschenk/enterprises-must-track-cellular-and-wireless-bandwidth-issues/?cs=36992 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 resource than its wired cousin. Therefore, the focus mimo wireless cellular deutsche_teleko fcc alcatel-lucent at&t broadband_services business_technology Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:01:37 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/weinschenk/enterprises-must-track-cellular-and-wireless-bandwidth-issues/?cs=36992 2009-10-26T20:01:37Z 1 week, 5 days ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/weinschenk/comment/enterprises-must-track-cellular-and-wireless-bandwidth-issues http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/weinschenk/feeds/comments?blogPost=36992 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/weinschenk/enterprise-responsibility-goes-up-a-notch-as-mobile-devices-use-the-cloud/?cs=36958 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 security level of smartphones . Rash said that the marriage microsoft cloud_computing mobile_device_security smartphones danger sidekick business_technology Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:59:04 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/weinschenk/enterprise-responsibility-goes-up-a-notch-as-mobile-devices-use-the-cloud/?cs=36958 2009-10-23T20:59:04Z 2 weeks, 1 day ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/weinschenk/comment/enterprise-responsibility-goes-up-a-notch-as-mobile-devices-use-the-cloud http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/weinschenk/feeds/comments?blogPost=36958 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/weinschenk/universal-cell-phone-chargers-get-itu-backing/?cs=36923 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 for device owners' sanity. Cellular-News reports that lg research_in_motion mobile_devices igo business_technology apple qualcomm nokia Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:09:10 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/weinschenk/universal-cell-phone-chargers-get-itu-backing/?cs=36923 2009-10-22T20:09:10Z 2 weeks, 2 days ago 1 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/weinschenk/comment/universal-cell-phone-chargers-get-itu-backing http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/weinschenk/feeds/comments?blogPost=36923 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/weinschenk/vendors-hope-that-e-reading-is-fundamental/?cs=36886 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 or better a new approach has to be to succeed. The spring_design sony plastic_logic google e-reader barnes_&_noble business_technology wireless_handheld_devices Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:25:27 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/weinschenk/vendors-hope-that-e-reading-is-fundamental/?cs=36886 2009-10-21T19:25:27Z 2 weeks, 3 days ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/weinschenk/comment/vendors-hope-that-e-reading-is-fundamental http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/weinschenk/feeds/comments?blogPost=36886 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/weinschenk/sip-proprietary-approaches-vie-for-voip-signaling-duties/?cs=36839 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 the IP version of the old Lily Tomlin character, sip session_initiation_protocol avaya shoretel mitel business_technology voip cisco_systems Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:04:32 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/weinschenk/sip-proprietary-approaches-vie-for-voip-signaling-duties/?cs=36839 2009-10-20T22:04:32Z 2 weeks, 4 days ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/weinschenk/comment/sip-proprietary-approaches-vie-for-voip-signaling-duties http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/weinschenk/feeds/comments?blogPost=36839 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/weinschenk/the-great-potential-of-wireless-tem/?cs=36798 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, such as better security and an all-around improvement in telecom_expense_management tem business_technology cost_containment telecommunications_services Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:27:21 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/weinschenk/the-great-potential-of-wireless-tem/?cs=36798 2009-10-19T21:27:21Z 2 weeks, 5 days ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/weinschenk/comment/the-great-potential-of-wireless-tem http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/weinschenk/feeds/comments?blogPost=36798 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/weinschenk/hoping-for-unintended-consequences/?cs=36755 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 scientific advances made would lead to breakthroughs in zigbee google 802.15.4 business_technology green_technology Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:28:04 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/weinschenk/hoping-for-unintended-consequences/?cs=36755 2009-10-16T17:28:04Z 3 weeks, 1 day ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/weinschenk/comment/hoping-for-unintended-consequences http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/weinschenk/feeds/comments?blogPost=36755 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/weinschenk/wi-fi-widens-reach/?cs=36690 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.   This will be both a competitive and cooperative wi-fi bluetooth 4g lte wimax business_technology 2g 3g Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:08:23 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/weinschenk/wi-fi-widens-reach/?cs=36690 2009-10-15T12:08:23Z 3 weeks, 3 days ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/weinschenk/comment/wi-fi-widens-reach http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/weinschenk/feeds/comments?blogPost=36690 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/weinschenk/the-expanding-middle-class-of-mobile-devices/?cs=36643 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 more straightforward, such as the human genome.   A tablets_netbooks_and_umpcs cloudbook smartphone mid mobile_internet_device notebook eeepc business_technology asus Tue, 13 Oct 2009 20:44:12 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/weinschenk/the-expanding-middle-class-of-mobile-devices/?cs=36643 2009-10-13T20:44:12Z 3 weeks, 4 days ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/weinschenk/comment/the-expanding-middle-class-of-mobile-devices http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/weinschenk/feeds/comments?blogPost=36643