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Mobile Telephone Networks Automates Distribution Warehouse to Cope With Higher Volumes

Mobile Telephone Networks wanted to automate warehouse management processes to handle sales volumes that are increasing at a rate of 20% to 30% per annum and ensure the company's network of retailers and dealers are able to satisfy customer demand for new cell phone handsets. The challenge was to reduce...

Tags: Mobile-phone, Oracle Corp., Mobile, Network, Telephone Network, Mobile Telephone Networks, Telecom & Utilities, Sales Strategy, Telecommunications, Cellular Phones, Sales, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Case studies 2009-08-01

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How Verizon might ruin Android

Okay Dana - how might Verizon ruin Android?By not actually writing an answer to the posited headline, it sure appears to me that you are trying to get comments from people like me to write your article for you. It might work a little better if you actually posited an...

Tags: Smart phones, Cellular phones, Wi-Fi, Verizon Communications Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-10-06

FCC to vote on wireless industry competition inquiry; Watch out Verizon and AT&T

How does the current setup stiffle innovation?Is the fcc indicating that they feel phones are not as advanced as they should be, or that wireless networks are not as innovative as they chould be?The current setup prevents consumers from ....1. Choosing the device they want2. Using it with...

Tags: 3G, Federal government, Cellular phones, Wireless and Mobility, Asian Governments, bureaucrat, Verizon Communications Inc., AT&T Corp., FCC, phone

Discussion threads 2009-08-21

Why PayPal lost this customer over credit card fees policy

I have this event coming up and will be be the funds-collector from people scattered across different locations. Initially, I thought of PayPal as the easy way to go. Boy, was I wrong. Today, thanks to a very poor experience with the company's Web...

Tags: Payment, Credit Card, PayPal, eBay Inc., Sales Channel, Financial Services, Operational Accounting, Sales, Finance, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-08-19

What the FCC can do for open spectrum

What the FCC can do for open spectrumYou miss the pointYou are so bent on running around waving the banner "Wireless companies are a monopoly" have you ever considered that maybe they are not?Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, Alltel, T-Mobile, Nextell, US Cellular, Virgin Mobile, are just a handfull of the 200...

Tags: Federal government, Wi-Fi, Wireless and Mobility, Verizon Communications Inc., AT&T Corp., spectrum, FCC

Discussion threads 2009-08-03

FCC reacts, starts looking into carrier-exclusive deal

FCC reacts, starts looking into carrier-exclusive dealConsider thisAt face value it would appear that the devices would be much more expensive if we did away with exclusive carrier / device relationships. 2 Things come to mind though. If a device maker is not in an exclusive deal with just one...

Tags: Smart phones, Federal government, Cellular phones, phone system, carrier, phone, FCC, smart phone

Discussion threads 2009-06-19

Pelephone - a Xeround customer profile

Sullivan Group profile Xeround inroduced me to one of their customers, Pelephone, so that I could hear first hand experience's with Xeround's "Intelligent Data Grid." I've spoke with Xeround in the past (see Xeround's Intelligent Data Grid for more information.) I spoke with Ilan Alter, Director Cellular Applications...

Tags: CDMA, HSPA, Xeround, Pelephone, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-05-22

Unlocking Successful Net Access While Globe Trotting

Getting online in places you've never been before can be a huge challenge, especially if you're on the move a lot. Paying for hotel wifi and staying late at conferences or clients are options, but what about when you're visiting a country for the first time - how...

Tags: Internet Access, SIM Card, Phone, Mobile, Network, Service, Murphy, Modems, Cellular Phones, Flash Memory, Networking, Wireless And Mobility, Hardware, Components, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-05-18

Five IT security pet peeves

Guest post: Anyone who cares about a field of expertise â€" really cares about it â€" must have some annoyances about things that could, even should, be better, but aren’t for what seem like the dumbest of reasons. TechRepublic's Chad Perrin shares five of his pet peeves in the realm...

Tags: Pet, IT Security, Information Technology, Security, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-05-06

Re: Re: Winning the Battle but Losing the War

Larry Dignan wrote here about the reality that Microsoft's Internet Explorer 6 & 7 are the official, formal web browsers for 78% of companies, a figure arrived at by Forrester research. The simple reason for this is basically security and software compatibility. Many...

Tags: Firewall, Collaboration, Information Technology, IT Department Budget, Strategy, E-mail, Security, Management, Online Communications, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-04-30

Skype coming to iPhone, BlackBerry: Does it need 3G support?

Skype coming to iPhone, BlackBerry: Does it need 3G support?Skype on Windows MobileIs any particular pda/phone hardware best suited for Skype, preferrably with potential for 3G as well as Wi-fi ?? Windows Mobile can make 3G skype callsOf course on Windows Mobile you can make 3G VOIP skype calls,...

Tags: Cellular phones, Wireless and Mobility, Skype Technologies S.A., 3G, Apple iPhone, Does it need 3G support, mobile, iPhone BlackBerry

Discussion threads 2009-03-30

VOD chief: Comcast will survive in face of TV.com, Hulu

This week, Comcast announced its OnDemand Online service, promising anywhere online access to Comcast programming (broadcast, basic and premium channels, etc.) for its customers. I sat down with Doug Sylvester, President and COO of TVN Entertainment, to talk about how Comcast's entry into the broadband video on-demand...

Tags: VoD, Comcast Corp., Cable Company, TV, Cable, Programming, Hulu, TVN Entertainment, ZD, DS, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-02-27

Cable Might Try To Kill TV. It Would Not Be Suicide.

Cable operators have a love-hate relationship with TV. Giving Americans scores of TV channels,where they once had just three or four, built them into the telecommunications giants that they are today. But now, the TV business is the least profitable of the three legs they stand on....

Tags: Cable, CMCSA, VZ, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2009-01-28

Obama to 'fight back' for his BlackBerry

Obama to 'fight back' for his BlackBerryOnly a country full of moronic lawyers...would want their leader deaf, blind, and mute.It's 2008. Damn right it's time for a change.Good for himGood for Obama. Bucks the status quo, with good reason. Geez, man, if the presidential IT folks are unable...

Tags: Handhelds, Obama, RIM BlackBerry, fight back

Discussion threads 2009-01-19

BREAKING: Internet broken, North America-Asia cables damaged

Interoute, the internet networks company, reports that three of the four internet sub-cables that run from Asia to North America have been damaged, according a post just published to the Times Online's Tech Central blog. The cables carry more than 75 percent of traffic between the Middle...

Tags: Service, Times Online, Cable, Network Technology, Internet, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Networking, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-12-19

50 questions asked and answered on Android

At the very end of the Google I/O 2008 conference last week the Android development team hosted a great fireside chat on the new mobile platform. The session was free-form, completely driven by questions from the audience. Although Google was trying to keep mum on a number of issues, several...

Tags: Developer, Google Inc., Application, Google Android, Phone, Device, Platform, OEM, App, Question, Q., A., XMPP, A. Goal, A. Qemu, Thing Cert, Apk, UMA, A. Compatability, A. Distribution, Android Device, Linux, Wireless LANs, Advertising & Promotion, Productivity, Telecom & Utilities, Open Source, Wi-Fi, Operating Systems, Software, Wireless, Marketing, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2008-06-05

Skype launches new beta for feature phones, works on S60 and Windows Mobile too

Skype launches new beta for feature phones, works on S60 and Windows Mobile tooRE: SkypeI have to confess, I don't own a cell phone, and I'm not a telecom guru but:"this current beta mobile implementation actually uses standard calls over carrier networks to make the actual call from your mobile...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Operating systems, Microsoft Windows, Skype Technologies S.A., phone, Microsoft Windows Mobile, mobile

Discussion threads 2008-04-25

Videoconferencing, Video Mail, IVR and Mobile Services Provided by iPBX Technology

Private Branch Exchange PBX systems have traditionally connected private enterprises to the Public Switched Telephone Network PSTN using circuit-switched communications. iPBX or IP PBX systems, which use the Internet Protocol IP to carry calls over packet-switched networks, have become increasingly popular in recent years. iPBXs account for a significant majority...

Tags: Mobile, IP, IVR, Video, PBX, Surf Communication Solutions, Telephony, VOIP, Interactive Voice Response (IVR), Networking, Telecommunications

White papers 2008-04-16

iSkoot mobile VoIP to be integrated with carrier-class Cisco gateway, softswitch

Mobile VoIP solutions provider iSkoot says that they have successfully completed iSkoot interoperability and integration testing with the  Cisco AS5000 Series Universal Gateway and the Cisco PGW 2200 Softswitch. The Cisco Softswitch is one of those a carrier-class softswitch that performs signaling and call-control tasks to enable...

Tags: VoIP, Mobile, Softswitch, Cisco Systems Inc., Cisco Softswitch, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2008-02-07

Comcast sees customer loss in '08

Comcast sees customer loss in '08About time!Maybe if they would lower their prices, they bait and switch you with initial low prices then jack them up. My cable bill was higher than my electric/gas bill so it's time for a change and that's without the telephone bundled with it.Competition is...

Tags: INTERNET, Cable, Network technology, Comcast Corp., customer loss

Discussion threads 2007-12-05