The adoption of Kubernetes-enabled infrastructures and applications has revealed the challenge involved in enabling persistent, reliable data storage in an ephemeral compute…
Read MoreAs a growth strategy for the telecom industry, focusing investment on mobility and data services while withdrawing it from wireline voice is doomed to fail. People still depend on voice for the vast majority of their communication needs.…
Read More[qi:090] Just as AT&T (s t) CEO Randall Stephenson is conceding to the permanent loss of wireline revenue, high definition (HD) is…
Read MoreThe iPhone and the Apple (s aapl) App Store may have set a new standard for design and availability of mobile apps,…
Read MoreA recent two-week visit to Ghana, Africa, offered up scenes that seemed frozen in time. Most of the buildings and infrastructure date…
Read MoreThe disruption potential of VoIP lies not so much in its ability to push down the cost of telephone service than in…
Read MoreA growing number of people expect mobile phones to emerge as the dominant means of Internet access for the 6.6 billion people…
Read MoreSIP-compatible VoIP devices already account for as much as 20 percent of landline telephone traffic. But mobile telephones will not remain a safe haven for long, as more companies start to offer VoIP alternatives to operator voice plans. Yet the displacement of analog phones by VoIP devices has not displaced the telephone network itself.…
Read MoreA single commodity hard disk is fast on its way to being able to store every song ever recorded;* a close examination…
Read MoreThe declining relevance of telephone directories erased 95 percent of publisher RH Donnelley’s market capitalization over the last 12 months. Although Google’s…
Read MoreVint Cerf’s 1974 TCP-IP specification and Tim Berners-Lee’s 1989 World Wide Web proposals remained little more than interesting academic ideas until the…
Read MoreThe linked computer files we call the Internet can take many forms, but real-time communication is not one of them. Communication engages participants more intimately than linking computer files, and moving from hypertext to “hypercomm” will require the infocomm industry to cope with privacy, authentication and trust.…
Read MoreA transformation continues to gain momentum in telecom, with software innovation displacing big iron as the primary source of competitive advantage. But in order to have a telco-free nirvana, the infocom industry needs to produce compelling devices that go beyond features and functionality already available from the telcos.…
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