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October 27, 2009

For 4G, It's Go Time

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 >

October 26, 2009

Enterprises Must Track Cellular and Wireless Bandwidth Issues

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 >

October 23, 2009

Enterprise Responsibility Goes Up a Notch as Mobile Devices Use the Cloud

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 >

Software Forum: Information On Demand Virtual Experience

This interactive virtual forum presents leading IT experts providing the insights you need to turn your information into a strategic driver for innovation, business optimization and competitive differentiation.

Performance Under Pressure: The State of Enterprise Web Application Quality and Availability

This research study finds that Web application issues are an all-too-common problem and examines these Web-based enterprise application issues from two perspectives: that of an online customer and that of a site manager.

October 22, 2009

Universal Cell Phone Chargers Get ITU Backing

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 >

October 21, 2009

Vendors Hope that E-Reading is Fundamental

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 >

October 20, 2009

SIP, Proprietary Approaches Vie for VoIP Signaling Duties

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 >

October 19, 2009

The Great Potential of Wireless TEM

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 >

October 16, 2009

Hoping for Unintended Consequences

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 >

October 15, 2009

Wi-Fi Widens Reach

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 >

October 13, 2009

The Expanding Middle Class of Mobile Devices

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 >

October 12, 2009

The Smartphone OS Wars Are Here

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 >

October 9, 2009

Confronting Thorny Spectrum Challenges

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 >

October 8, 2009

Android on a Hot Streak

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 >

October 7, 2009

Are AT&T and Verizon Wireless Accepting Wireless Net Neutrality?

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 >

October 6, 2009

Moving Through the Mobile Cloud

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 >

Data Warehousing for Business Intelligence

Comprehensive storage solutions for better data access and retrieval, leading to better-informed business decisions.

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Hardware and software tools to create an enterprise infrastructure for data and business optimization.

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Data management and storage solutions, tips and best practices to improve the scalability, reliability, and accessability of your data.

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Answers to the ongoing challenges of the mobile office: to work anywhere, securely and efficiently.