The 2008 presidential election has drawn an unparalleled level of interest globally, and the Internet is host to a record number of young voters and people abroad looking for campaign updates. With so much at stake this election year, even the Republicans admit that Democrats have the edge, with Obama leading the pack in social […]
With this week’s magnitude-5.4 earthquake in Southern California behind us, experts are saying that the worst is yet to come. Sufficiently shaken – no pun intended – everyone is making a move to step up their emergency preparations. But what about the telecommunications companies whose services are so crucial to people during emergencies?
Telephone service was […]
Another summer iPhone announcement, another explosion in the press and blogosphere speculating whether AT&T’s network can handle the demand. While the carrier seemingly has taken the necessary steps to prepare for the onslaught of 3G iPhone users, no one seems truly confident that it will be enough, and one thing is certain - this iPhone […]
Yesterday at Apple Worldwide Developer Conference, Steve Jobs discussed what he is calling “iPhone 2.0,” as well as a slew of new applications and services. The success of the iPhone has been huge for Apple since the device launched a little less than a year ago, but Jobs is pushing for more. More countries. More […]
A little over a year ago Netflix introduced a service that delivered streaming video direct to customers PCs. Now, they’re taking it a step further with a product set to compete with Apple TV. Working with a small California start up, Roku, Netflix has created a box that allows customers to view content directly to […]
“Mobile marketing,” or marketing products and services through mobile devices, has become increasingly popular as technology advances and SMS continues to offer businesses a way to reach consumers faster and more directly. The latest innovations in this category are now making use of more exciting (and bandwidth-intensive) content to deliver the intended message more effectively […]
In two words: transformation and customer experience (Ok, that’s three – but two ideas). This buzz was bandied about by service providers, integrators and vendors alike, and it was no surprise to me that Telstra and BT were mentioned this week in the same breath more than once, as the pioneers with the courage to […]
Last week at CTIA, there was a lot of talk about wireless backhaul and the technology needed to address bottlenecks that high-bandwidth mobile services create, as described in a recent Telephony article. In this story, the head of Juniper Networks’ mobile and FMC segment calls backhaul one of the weakest links in today’s wireless networks, […]
Yesterday morning, many die-hard baseball fans got up extra early to watch the Red Sox/Athletics season opener in Japan, only to be given an even ruder awakening than the sound of their alarm clocks - a blank TV screen when they tried to watch the game. DirecTV (and some Comcast) customers missed most or all of […]
Steve Lohr wrote a great article about the growth of Internet congestion on Thursday in the New York Times. In the article, Steve focuses on the Internet traffic jam from the consumer perspective but I was struck more by the issues Internet congestion raises on the business side. The fact that high-bandwidth services like video […]
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