The days of time-division multiplexing (TDM) managing the majority of our phone calls is coming to an end. The soon-to-be obsolete switches have too many issues, and offer limited opportunities to expand. Alcatel-Lucent offers its own IMS End-to-End Solution which offers numerous benefits. Read More »
Archive for May 2010
For weeks now, I’ve been struggling with offering social media marketing services to clients and being charged with coming up with some rational, defensible measurement system, so that someone, somewhere can justify their company or organization’s foray into using social networks, blogs and the like. Read More »
The FCC, as part of its effort to boost competition by lowering the cost of switching providers, today released a survey showing that early termination fees influence consumer behavior and how unexpectedly higher phone bills hurt consumers, especially younger phone users. Read More »
J. Allard and Robbie Bach — instrumental in the successes of Microsoft’s Entertainment & Devices Division — are both leaving. For now, Steve Ballmer will have more direct control over this group, which might not be the best move in the long term for Microsoft. Read More »
Shame, guilt, and embarrassment are always good tools to change people’s behavior. This morning Microsoft added in a “score” functionality to its energy management tool Hohm which gives a Hohm score to every address entered based on how energy efficient the building is. Read More »
A big consumer electronics show in Taiwan is approaching and it’s expected the big focus will be on tablets. Several companies will be unveiling slates, and while some of them will be based on technology from ARM and Nvidia there will be some Wintel tablets, too. Read More »
Today on the Net: the BBC iPlayer gets an upgrade to hook it into more social networks, RealNetworks founder Rob Glaser gets a new gig as a part-time venture partner with Accel, and Verizon doubles the number of VOD titles that are available to FiOS customers Read More »
Megan Garber at Nieman Journalism Lab has written a nice review of our iPhone and iPod touch app. She also picked up on one of the key elements of our app: bringing our team of writers closer to our readers and our community. Read More »
Has Facebook failed to evolve along with the core of its user base, and could that spell doom for the social network? In a blog post at the Harvard Business Review site, professor Bruce Nussbaum argues that it has, and it could. But is he right? Read More »
Google has added a neat new Labs feature to Gmail that shifts the position of the icon column in your inbox to the left-hand side of the screen, giving the icons more prominence, so it’s easier to see what’s in your inbox. Read More »
T-Mobile USA President and CEO Robert Dotson will leave as of May 2011 to be replaced by Philipp Humm who was the former CEO of T-Mobile Deutschland. But Humm will have to address T-Mobile’s falling prepaid subscribers and fight for growth in a saturated market. Read More »
What if the energy needed to power data centers could be like the latest episode of “True Blood,” on demand? That’s the idea behind Power Assure, a startup that can ramp up and down the power consumption of data centers to coincide with demand. Read More »
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