Commentary
Is there a cloud at the end of the telco pipe?
For all the talk of telcos trying to get a higher share of chief information officers’ wallets, there is little to show in one of the hottest recent trends: software as a service or cloud computing. ...
CTIA wrap: Welcome to the 3G revival
If you asked me last year what big new products infrastructure vendors would unveil this year at CTIA Wireless, I certainly would have said a GGSN...
Google looks for leverage with fiber for communities experiment
Google’s experimental fiber-to-the-home announcement to initially serve between 50,000 to 500,000 homes has generated lots of headlines...
The Golden Age of the Mobile Network
In the wake of both Mobile World Congress and CTIA — the Fred and Ginger of the mobile exhibition show circuit — operators of fixed networks and their equipment suppliers are likely experiencing a serious bout of low self-esteem. ...
Mobile apps explode, but what about the little guys?
Choice is always a good thing for consumers, right? What about when you are choosing from thousands of options, as in the case with mobile application stores?...
CTIA: Four areas to watch beyond the radio
CTIA used to be mainly about the radio access network, but between the IP seeping in everywhere and mobile operators challenged to adopt new service and business models, there’s plenty of technology trends to track this year....
Hey, Clearwire: 4G networks don’t exist yet
When analogue radio networks were replaced with digital networks in the 1990s, naming them was straightforward: They were second-generation, or 2G, networks...
Ready or not, here comes mobile VoIP
Verizon Wireless’ (NYSE:VZ, NYSE:VOD) partnership with Skype was only the beginning...
MWC’s ‘break out’ topic for 2010
By the time you read this, the telecom world will likely be preoccupied with Mobile World Congress...
The buy side of innovation
Political cycles can seemingly turn on a dime, as we have all witnessed just in the last few weeks...
When wireless is not wireless
It's easy to confuse, or equate, broadband wireless access with the mobile cellular communications that we've lived with for 25 years. After all, wireless is wireless, right...
When wireless is not wireless
It’s easy to confuse, or equate, broadband wireless access with the mobile cellular communications that we’ve lived with for 25 years. ...
The ultimate mobile test lab
Want to see which devices people are actually using and the services they consume? Open your eyes on your daily commute...
Carrier Mandate 2010: Never Say “When”
It’s astonishing that the inhabitants of a country where 535 lawmakers can never seem to get anything done are so firmly convicted to the belief that more is better. ...
Will tablets kill the eReader?
The to-be-launched Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) Tablet is quickly becoming the device you never knew you had to have. Nearly one in five consumers are prepared to buy this 10-inch, touchscreen, app-friendly device...
Can't you feel the interactive about to happen?
Every year just as the international Consumer Electronics Show is winding down, there's at least one pronouncement that this will be the year interactive TV finally takes off. Amid all the noise around 3D TV this year...
Opening phones, opening wallets
Americans learned a new way to give last week. It was simple process: creating a new text message, entering the five-digit code 90999 in the address bar and the simple message "Haiti" in the body, and $10 was shot off to the Red Cross. In and of itself the donation isn't large ...
Predictions sure to go wrong
It's the season for market analysts to prognosticate and pontificate on developments for the new year...
CES: The industry's new wireless show?
This year's Consumer Electronics Show had more good news for the industry than just a 6% increase in attendance. It also featured a marked increase in focus on wireless technologies...
Clouds vs. outages
Recent outages at cloud computing service provider RackSpace beg the question: "How can the cloud be down?"...
Does interactivity kill TV's killer app?
The next year or two could bring the biggest changes that the medium of television has ever seen. The liberation of programming content from the TV to PCs and other devices...
Mobile TV makes progress at CES
The Consumer Electronics Show, the world's largest gadget show that kicks off the year every January, is used by many in the industry as a barometer for what the year ahead will hold...
Qwest shops its LD network again (with local attached)
“We’re agnostic about being a buyer or a seller,” said Ed Mueller, CEO of Qwest Communications, at an investor conference yesterday, though he sounded much more like a seller as he continued. ...
Applying 3G lessons to LTE
The first long-term evolution networks have officially gone live overseas, and the first large-scale LTE deployments are set to launch this year in the U.S. and Japan...
Smart grid: Definition, road map and breadth of this grand challenge
A smarter electric power grid promises greater efficiency, reliability and security leading to greater use of renewable energy sources that positively impact our environment. ...
