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Connected Planet Podcast: Google Chrome
Google released its Chrome operating system, built around security, simplicity and speed, to the open-source community last week. Designed for netbooks, the OS is expected to give Microsoft a run for its money. Ian Drew, executive vice president of marketing at chipmaker ARM, discusses what Chrome means to the industry, and outlines ARM’s plan for Google’s netbook OS, as well as its mobile OS Android. ...
Study peers into telecom, media crystal ball
Oracle and consulting firm The Future Laboratory recently completed a study, “Capitalizing on the Digital Age”, which examines how the digital world and new communications services are changing consumer behavior. We talked with both companies to learn what service providers need to know about this vision of the future....
SkitterTV: Over the top and over the air
SkitterTV launched in September as an alternative to IPTV that combines Internet video with local TV broadcast over the air. At the TelcoTV show this week, the company announced a deal with Zeugma Systems to ensure service quality, and its service will soon be available on Roku’s set-top. Skitter president Robert Saunders spoke with Connected Planet about how its IPTV alternative works. ...
Connected Planet Podcast: Z-Wave on home energy management
Home energy management is an essential part of plans for the electric grid’s make-over. It’s already being done at an application level, but there are still issues to be worked, including standards to bring together numerous players. Connected Planet spoke with Z-Wave Alliance chairman Raoul Wijgergangs about how the market is shaping up....
HOW ‘FREE’ VIDEO WILL BE MONETIZED
Traditional “free” broadcast video and cable models are colliding with online distribution, clouding the picture of video monetization. David Allred, senior vice president of marketing and product management for Sezmi, offers his company’s take on the future of video services. ...
Connected Planet Podcast: NBC Universal on policing P2P downloaders
With net neutrality looming, content owners and service providers are challenged more than ever to deal with customers improperly downloading copyrighted content. We talk with Richard Cotton, executive vice president and general counsel at NBC Universal on how he sees this important issue playing out....
How will wireless/wireline convergence impact service provider networks?
Rocky Kler, vice president of the network systems group for NEC Corporation, answers questions from Joan Engebretson, Telephony contributing editor....
What will drive future broadband growth?
As a provider of equipment for the enterprise and carrier market, NEC Corporation has a unique perspective on this topic, which Rocky Kler, vice president of the network systems group for NEC, discusses with Joan Engebretson, Telephony contributing editor....
What can we expect from U.S. broadband stimulus programs?
As vice president of the network systems group for global equipment supplier NEC Corporation, Rocky Kler has a broad view of policy questions. He shares his insight with Joan Engebretson, Telephony contributing editor....
Canada's green networking push
CANARIE, the Canadian research organization, is awarding $3 million to companies that can help it build zero-carbon data-center networks, hoping along the way to teach telecom and IT companies how to turn the carbon offsets market into cash and teach the world how green the telecom sector can be. CANARIE’s Chief research officer, Bill St. Arnaud, explains....
What are service providers’ plans for 100G optical transport?
As vice president of the network systems group for NEC Corporation, Rocky Kler is closely involved in this area, offering his insight to Joan Engebretson, Telephony contributing editor....
A Telephony Podcast | Convergence of music and mobile
In advance of the National Association of Recording Merchandisers (NARM)’s music business event next month, Bill Wilson, NARM’s director of digital strategy and business development details how the worlds of physical, digital and mobile content delivery options are converging within the music industry. ...
A Telephony Podcast | Wikimedia explores the phone as encyclopedia
Kul Wadhwa, head of business development, Wikimedia Foundation, discusses with senior editor Kevin Fitchard the Wikipedia’s future on the mobile phone...
A Telephony Podcast | WAN optimization for the mid-market
Enterprise customers are increasingly asking managed service providers to offer them WAN optimization as a managed service, and analysts say an opportunity is emerging to move those services down market to smaller customers. Bill Dodds, vice president of sales and marketing for Virtela, explains how his company is targeting the mid-market with WAN optimization this year...
A Telephony Podcast | NAB Show: Consumer press view of IPTV
Jonathan Blum of Blumsday, a leading technology and digital gadget information service, presents the consumer press view of IPTV to Telephony Editor-in-Chief Carol Wilson, from the NAB Show in Las Vegas...
A Telephony Podcast | Will iPhone reach one billion app downloads?
Analyst firm mobileSquared believes the iPhone is on track to achieve one billion application downloads by next Thursday, April 23rd. Research director Ed Barker tells Telephony how the company will reach this milestone and what it means for the rest of the industry. ...
A Telephony Podcast | Funding wireless innovation
Senior Editor Kevin Fitchard interviews Vodafone Americas Foundation director June Sugiyama about Vodafone’s efforts to steer grant money toward non-profits and academics developing wireless technologies of the future...
A Telephony Podcast | MetaSwitch CEO John Lazar explains new innovators’ community
MetaSwitch this week launched the MetaSwitch Innovators Community, a collaborative online social business networking group to enable third-party software-based applications for its products. Editor-in-Chief Carol Wilson talks with MetaSwitch CEO John Lazar about this effort...
A Telephony Podcast | Pulling the PC into the cloud
Telecom service providers can offer PC desktops as a service and other applications over a variety of user devices with help from SIMTone, a startup focused on cloud computing. SIMTone CEO Mario Dal Canto explains how...
A Telephony Podcast | CTIA: Sharon Greene, RISC International
Sharon Greene, managing director of global consumer behavior consultancy RISC International, gives the view of wireless from the CTIA show-room floor...
A Telephony Podcast: CTIA -- Previewing the big show
Senior Editor Kevin Fitchard discusses the upcoming CTIA Wireless with show director and CTIA COO Rob Mesirow....
A Telephony Podcast: I-feature -- The evolving user interface
TAT’s Hampus Jakobsson details how the phone user interface will transform in the future, embracing not just new means of inputting and viewing data but eventually nanotechnologies that will allow the device to morph into whatever form factor is needed....
A Telephony Podcast: WAN optimization services move down-market
Large enterprises have been using WAN optimization gear for years, increasingly turning to service providers to manage it for them. Meanwhile, the technology is gaining relevance to the SMB market. Joe Skorupa, research vice president at Gartner, explains how service providers can tap these burgeoning markets. ...
A Telephony Podcast: TV of Tomorrow
The TV of Tomorrow show kicks off today in San Francisco, and conference organizer, analyst and CEO of Interactive TV Today spoke with Telephony about what the interactive, social TV of tomorrow means for service providers and the plethora of other players in the ecosystem. ...
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