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Your Message on the Move: An Introduction to Mobile Marketing and Mobile Advertising

Remember when e-mail marketing was all the rage? It was marketing at its best. It cost close to nothing to send out an email. Plus, companies were able to gauge results of a campaign quickly by measuring open rates, click-throughs, bounced messages, and, most importantly, conversions. It didn't take long...

Tags: Advertisement, Mobile, Mobile Marketing, Advanced Telecom Services, E-mail, Advertising & Promotion, Online Communications, Marketing

White papers 2008-12-01

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The coming wireline business implosion (and how you'll wind up paying for it)

Is the wired telecom business just as doomed as beleaguered automakers like GM and Chrysler and the newspaper industry? It's quite possible a few years down the line. And this wireline fallout will have ramifications well beyond the usual suspects such as AT&T and Verizon. Simply put, cutting the...

Tags: Bailout, Business, Craig Moffett, Finance, Financial Planning, Free Trade, Larry Dignan, Network, Networking, Personal Finance, Phone, Taxes, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Telecommunications Company, Telephony, Verizon Communications Inc., Wireline

Blog posts 2009-05-18

In-Stat: 30 percent of global wireless will be 3G, 4G by 2013

Advanced wireless networks---3G and 4G---will represent 30 percent of global wireless subscriptions, up from 11 percent at the end of 2008, according to research firm In-Stat.  Despite all of the chatter about advanced wireless services In-Stat's research is an eye-opener. In the tech crowd one would assume...

Tags: 4G, Clearwire Corp., Wireless, In-Stat, WiMAX, Wi-Fi, 3G, Wireless And Mobility, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-03-18

Single 3Com Infrastructure Pays Off for TM R&D

As the Research & Development arm of Malaysia's largest telecom operator, Telekom Malaysia Berhad TM, Research & Development (R&D) develops new-generation network and broadband initiatives that will support TM's next-generation network. R&D needed to Standardize on a single network platform; with ease of deployment and management; along with future-proofed to...

Tags: R&D, Network, 3Com Corp., Research & Development, Networking, Telecommunications, Business Operations

Case studies 2009-01-01

Akamai: Weathering a price war; economic slowdown

Akamai, the leader in content delivery networks--services that speed up video and Web pages on the Internet, posted solid third quarter results, but cut the outlook for the fourth quarter. The economy was cited for the lower guidance but some analysts say that price competition may be more worrisome. ...

Tags: Akamai Technologies Inc., Pricing, Marketing Research, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-31

Cisco faces tricky fourth quarter report

Cisco Systems reports its fourth quarter earnings Tuesday and an analyst says the quarter may be "the trickiest in memory." Wall Street is expecting fourth quarter earnings of 39 cents a share on revenue of $10.31 billion, according to Reuters' Thomson Financial. But observers will be combing...

Tags: John Chambers, Analyst, Cisco Systems Inc., Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-05

Gag lifted, Verizon, AT&T, Google open up on FCC 700 Mhz auction

The Federal Communications Commission has lifted its gag order on the winners of the 700 Mhz auction and those telecom giants have been a chatty bunch. And all of them are talking about advanced wireless broadband service. A brief recap Techmeme: AT&T reckons that...

Tags: FCC, Google Inc., Verizon Communications Inc., AT&T Corp., Spectrum, Auction, Wireless Broadband, Broadband Internet, Wireless, Telecommunications, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-04-04

New+majority+loses+nerve+on+net+neutrality

New+majority+loses+nerve+on+net+neutralityI think this should be handled through ICANNThey say.. if you try to impose restriction on websites that you do not host, we terminate your name associations and IP blocks.Problem solved.In its current form.. net neutraility does more harm than good. Any restrictions other than the ones blocking monopolies...

Tags: Web site development, INTERNET, Net Neutrality, Web site, e-mail

Discussion threads 2008-02-13

Software AG and Cognos bring BI and BPM into common orbit

The much-discussed marriage of business intelligence BI and business process management BPM may be a step closer to the altar with last week's announcement by Software AG that it will embed Cognos 8 BI with the webMethods product suite. ...

Tags: Cognos Inc., BPM, Software AG, Layer 7 Technologies Inc., Natural 2006, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Operational Planning, Business Process Automation, Enterprise Software, Databases, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management, Business Operations, It Operations, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2007-11-11

Could other ISPs follow BT's free Web biz-app offering, thus challenging Salesforce, others?

A scan of the RSS feeds I monitor (by no means the end-all, be-all sub list) reveals that hardly anyone may have noticed or cared that the UK telecom company BT took not just a natural step in what is now becoming a tradition of ISPs and telcos offering free...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Google Inc., Web, Telecommunications Company, British Telecommunications, Internet Service Provider, BT Business Builder, David Berlind

Blog posts 2007-09-11

Look for more Linux-based mobile devices in a Palm near you

Linux on mobile devices got a boost this week with a slew of announcements out of LinuxWorld in San Francisco. One telling announcement came with Palm's decision to go with Wind River Systems' Linux as the platform for the upcoming Palm Foleo, the sub-compact companion for smartphones. While...

Tags: Linux, Wind River Systems Inc., Mobile, Palm Inc., Mobile Device, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2007-08-07

UTM in Asia

I have UTM on my mind. As I travel through Asia these two weeks I am meeting with journalists, analysts, and large telecom providers and they all want to debate UTM Unified Threat Management. Of course the usual best-of-breed versus "suite" issue is raised often. But, the most...

Tags: Spyware

Blog posts 2007-07-17

Why HD movie downloads are a big lie

There's a lot of buzz lately about the delivery of HD TV and Movie content over the Internet with shows like Lost being delivered by ABC.com and other video download services with XBox360 or iTunes.  I even have friends and colleagues telling me that BlueRay or HD-DVD won't make it...

Tags: Consumer electronics, Fun Stuff, Infrastructure, Net Neutrality, Networking, VoIP

Blog posts 2007-05-31

You say Helio, and I say goodbye

My colleague Marguerite Reardon offers a piece about how mobile virtual network operator Helio continues to be a drag on 50 percent-owner EarthLinks bottom line.The numbers are ugly- $74 million for the 4Q 2006 and $191.5 million for the year. Helio has about 70,000 subs that pay in around...

Tags: General, Providers, Helio

Blog posts 2007-02-07

Orange Business Services Brings 'Business Together' With Industry-Leading Multimedia Communication Solutions

Enterprises are clamoring for communications solutions that converge their fixed and mobile devices and provide a full suite of multimedia features. Fixed-line service still has its place, as devices that are associated with a group of people - a company, for example - or a location, as opposed to an...

Tags: Orange PCS, Multimedia, Nortel Networks Corp., Business Service

Case studies 2007-02-07

Let's have fun with old songs about phones- do they still hold up in 2006?

Earlier today as I was thinking about Thanksgiving Day phone calls I might make later on, my thoughts turned to telephone songs. Songs about making phone calls, about not completing phone calls, calls about what was said during these calls.Then the thought hit me: would the lyrics of these...

Tags: telephone, General

Blog posts 2006-11-23

IBM opens 'elite' IT lab in Brazil

IBM opens 'elite' IT lab in BrazilIBM opens 'elite' IT lab in BrazilI can't wait to read the next headline that says "Apple to Sue IBM over HiPOD".why in Brasil?Is there something wrong with american engineers?The answerIf using local talent for the local South American market instead of foreign US...

Tags: Telephony, IBM Corp., banking, Brazilian, IT lab, Brasil, telecommunications, information technology

Discussion threads 2006-09-06

Broadband over power line's ham radio problem- and vice versa

Broadband over power line's ham radio problem- and vice versanew: DS2's HAM-Friendly 200 Mbps BPL Technology puts Competition on the Deftaken from DS2 press release... http://www.ds2.es/press/record.aspx?id=2914 September 2005DS2's Radio Friendly BPL Technology puts Competition on the DefensiveSpeaking at 2005 UPLC Annual Conference, Victor Dominguez, DS2's Director of Strategy and Standardization,...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, broadband, DS2, broadband over power line, radio

Discussion threads 2006-03-21

Sun releases open-source Sparc designs

Sun releases open-source Sparc designsSun's open source effort is bound to doomThe technology of open source is by no means of cutting-edge, like buggy Linux kernel, firefox and so on. Advanced technologies will never be open, look at Windows, Office, Google search engine etc. The only reason why Linux becomes...

Tags: Processors, Operating systems, UNIX, Servers, Microsoft Corp., Cutting-Edge, Sun Sparc, Sun Microsystems Inc., open source, Sun Solaris, server

Discussion threads 2006-03-21

Will open spectrum be allowed?

Will open spectrum be allowed?Who controls the licensed spectrum for our WiMax wireless internet future?As a result of the recent acquisitions by two RBOC's and the merger of Sprint/Nextel these 3 companies have acquired most of the available licensed spectrum for wireless internet. The mega mergers bring together lots...

Tags: Wi-Fi, WIRELESS, Intel Corp., Verizon Communications Inc., WiMAX, spectrum

Discussion threads 2006-03-09