You can tell a lot about a company, and its future from one simple metric: sales per employee. It is also a good yardstick to measure how efficiently a company is run. Albert Lin of American Technology Research thinks that operating income per employee is a … Read More »
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Texas Instruments is not convinced that WiMax will replace DSL anytime, according to Infoworld. Joe Cruppi, a senior executive with the company chatted with the magazine and had to say about Intel’s claim of WiMAX as a DSL replacement. But Crupi is skeptical of these plans, … Read More »
There are three things you can count on in life: taxes, death and baby bells being sore losers. RCR Wireless News reports that “Verizon Wireless has sent a blistering letter to the Federal Communications Commission charging that the FCC is illegally negotiating with Nextel Communications … Read More »
Sean Fioritto has written, in layman’s terms, a little intro to mesh networking . I’ve written a little paper here that hopefully breaks down and explains in terms anyone can understand the basics of mesh networking. A word of warning: I am not an expert. Most … Read More »
Scientific research somehow manages to prove common sense. For instance, research shows that if you give people too many choices, their reaction time in making a choice is much slower. That is one of the main reasons why many states have laws requiring drivers to “use … Read More »
So you think that record labels and movie studios are freaking out now! Wait for the day when mobile filesharing goes mainstream. According to New Scientist, “Music, videos and games could soon be swapped between cellphones using a mobile file-sharing network developed by … Read More »
Australians will be using some sort of wireless broadband by 2007. “Wireless access will account for nearly 10 percent of Australian broadband connections within three years, according to Ovum, a research group. Ovum says 298,000 of 3.1 million broadband connections servicing Australian businesses and consumers … Read More »
Mark Evans writes today that some Wall Street analysts are questioning all the buzz around RIM’s Charm. The tech world is excited about the size and shape of the 7100T and – most important – its consumer-friendly US$200 price tag. That said, analysts are now pointing … Read More »
Can you believe it? It has been almost a year since I wrote about TowerStream, a tiny Rhode Island company that proved that if you use enough common sense you can make fixed wireless work, and that you don’t need to raise billions from the stock … Read More »
Albert Lin of independent American Technology Research sent out a very interesting note this morning to his clients, outlining why Motorola v710 is going to be a massive hit for Motorola and prove a reason for financial upside for both Moto and Qualcomm. Lin estimates that … Read More »
Lots of talk about downloading music over the air to your cell phones, and perhaps time for a little reality check, especially if you live outside of North America. If you download one 4 megabyte MP3 song over the air using a GPRS plan – and … Read More »
Multimedia networking will drive the home networking semiconductor market over the next five years, as revenues grow 12% per year to reach over $2.3 billion in 2008, according to In-Stat/MDRAs more and more devices are getting connected, it spells opportunity for silicon vendors. In-Stat/MDR believes … Read More »
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