I had the good fortune this week of leaving the cold Northeast behind and spending some time in Barcelona at the GSMA Mobile World Congress. It’s been exciting to walk around the show floor and see the future of the mobile industry, and particularly the prototype “Google phones” built on the Android platform. Android-based phones […]
On Tuesday night this week while I was preparing for the VPIsystems sales conference, a massive undersea network cable was cut and Internet access was crippled across much of Egypt and India (a trade group estimates about 60 percent of India’s Internet users were affected). I was especially interested to read about the disruption, […]
iPhone users having problems with AT&T’s EDGE network at the biggest consumer electronics show in the U.S.?
I am shocked. Shocked, I say.
If only there was some sort of planning solution that could help carriers ensure that their networks can support their services . . .
Happy New Year, everyone! Here’s to a great 2008!
While I was home watching the ball drop in Times Square and celebrating the start of 2008 with friends and family, millions of other people were busy text messaging their far-flung friends and families to wish them a happy new year. According to the AP, […]
Verizon Wireless has made a large footprint in the “Open” movement over the last week — first opening its network to outside devices and applications, then announcing its plan to use the LTE (Long Term Evolution) standard instead of UMB (ultramobile broadband), and Tuesday joining Google’s Open Handset Alliance. The company is positioning the OHA […]
I don’t know about you, but I’m certainly ready for Thanksgiving and looking forward to tomorrow. As I think about the time people spend preparing for the big day, slowly filling the fridge and creating a menu, I couldn’t help but draw an analogy in my head - preparing for a successful Thanksgiving dinner isn’t […]
I was watching TV last night and I saw the Verizon commercial where the husband and wife suggest introducing their house’s landline “network” to the wife’s cell phone “network” - but of course they know each other already because the Verizon “network” is all one big happy family (cue the Verizon theme song…). This commercial reminded me […]
I hope everyone had a nice weekend! Last week I had the pleasure of going to Berlin for the Broadband World Forum, and while I was there predominantly for the IEC InfoVision Award ceremony (we were a finalist but, alas, not a winner), the show ended up being quite interesting. I attended some thought-provoking keynotes […]
On Friday, Bob Cringely posted a provocative column about the growth of carriers leveraging Wi-Fi hotspots saying, “These games are played over and over by communication service companies of all kinds, and at the heart of it all is a big lie — that bandwidth is scarce. Bandwidth is not scarce.” His argument […]
On Monday, the Yankee Group issued a press release whose first sentence claims “the hype surrounding Second Life doesn’t match its actual marketplace impact.” As c|net points out, the primary stumbling block isn’t Second Life’s challenging user interface or frustrating lag times, but its PC-centric mindset in a mobile world. Yankee Group goes […]
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