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Next Generation OTN Transport Solution

A new transport technology is required to provide a converged transport solution for TDM and packet-based services. The Optical Transport Network OTN technology introduces such a solution, while offering flexibility for new services. The Optical Transport Hierarchy, OTH, is a new transport technology developed by the ITU for utilizing the...

Tags: ECI Telecom Ltd., Technology, Transport Technology, Optical Transport Network Technology, Optical Networking, Networking, Fiber Optics, Telecommunications

White papers 2007-01-01

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FCC wants public comment on digital democracy - voting online

Online Voting - Destroying the integrity and fabric of democracy.On-line voting without safe guards against vote selling and guarantee that each vote was registered in private invalidates the intent and meaning of "one person, one vote."It's bad enough that this hole currently exists with the current mail-in voting process.RE: FCC...

Tags: Federal government, digital democracy, public comment, FCC

Discussion threads 2009-11-19

Understanding Enterprise 2.0 Tolerances & Scale

We're at an interesting intersection in the collaboration world where projects both large and small tend to be discussed with the same terms. This can be very confusing to the lay person since it's hard to know what sort of scale is being described. ...

Tags: Environment, Enterprise 2.0, Small And Medium Business Need, European Enterprise 2.0 Scene, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-11-14

Netbook or a cheap Compaq for students?

Re: Netbook or cheap CompaqThe problem I see at least in my organization it is never 1:1. Sometimes I wish we could get away with a netbook or using some of our older desktop hardware for lighter 1:1 usage. We bought a small cart of Netbooks...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Compaq Computer Corp., netbook

Discussion threads 2009-10-13

Non-Profit Firm Expands Transport for Senior Citizens With Software + Services Solution

ITNAmerica, the first national non-profit transportation service for the aging population and the visually impaired, was founded with the goal of providing affordable, easy-to-access transportation in automobiles by matching seniors with paid and volunteer drivers in local communities. To make it work - and to grow the ITNAmerica service nationwide...

Tags: Software, Citizens LLC, Microsoft Corp., Transportation

Case studies 2009-10-01

What do Bill Gates and other billionaires see as the world's #1 problem?

It's not peak oil and it's not war. But it is a greentech issue. It's population growth. But without unbridled population growth it's very hard to maintain economic growth. This issue strikes at the very heart of 21st Century business and politics. That's why we...

Tags: Bill Gates, Population Growth, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-09-29

Google's response to AT&T's charges on Google Voice

How about fixing the first articleso we know what you are talking about.Torn...I can certainly appreciate the arguments being trotted out by Google. They seem, however, to want to have the best of both worlds...acting as a de-facto "common carrier" while not actually being one. Given this, I...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Darkmane, ATT, Google Inc., AT&T Corp., carrier, network

Discussion threads 2009-09-28

TomTom debuts 5" XXL 530S, 540S GPS navigation devices

TomTom on Monday announced the XXL 530S and XXL 540S GPS navigation devices with extra-large five-inch displays. Positioned as premium devices, the XXL 530S and XXL 540S include TomTom's IQ Routes technology for faster, more efficient directions based on historical speed measurements for...

Tags: Device, TomTom, Business Services, Desktops, Pricing, Hardware, Marketing, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-09-14

They're still pushing hydrogen

Your title sucks...It comes off with a sort of negative flavor. Like someone's trying to cram hydrogen down our collective throats. The reality of the situation - Hydrogen fuel cell cars ARE a good thing. Even your article pointed as much out. A better title might have been something like...

Tags: hydrogen

Discussion threads 2009-09-13

Strategic Mobile Deployments; Adopting a Mobile Enterprise Application Platform

It wasn't so long ago that mobile devices were cool - objects of envy among those who were tied to their desktops. As cool as they were, as these devices began to appear in the workplace, they were not immediately welcomed by IT departments and not considered part of the...

Tags: Mobile, Enterprise Application, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

White papers 2009-09-01

Ambulance Victoria Improves Emergency Care With Mobile Solution

AV provides up to 450,000 emergency transport services and approximately 270,000 less urgent services each year. The urgent nature of the work means it is not enough to be efficient. AV requires tools that give paramedics and their managers all the knowledge they need to provide optimum patient care. That...

Tags: Patient, Oracle Corp., Mobile, Ambulance Victoria, AV

Case studies 2009-09-01

A Peek Ahead â€" A Technology That Should Get More Visibility

PEEK - An inexpensive communication option Some bloggers get in trouble for accepting free products to try out and then write about. Rest assured, no one gives me anything. I don’t do bribes and I’m not going to start now. I paid out of...

Tags: Phone, Family Member Question, Telecom & Utilities, E-mail, Online Communications, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-08-29

Toshiba 55SV670U

At the high end of the LCD TV cost spectrum sits models equipped with LED backlighting. Whether edge-lit or local dimming, these sets command a price premium and deliver somewhat better energy efficiency and markedly better black level performance than standard LCD TVs. But with black levels on par with...

Tags: Monitors & displays, TVs, TV & Home Theater, Toshiba SV670U, Toshiba Corp.

Product reviews 2009-08-27

Toshiba 46SV670U

At the high end of the LCD TV cost spectrum sits models equipped with LED backlighting. Whether edge-lit or local dimming, these sets command a price premium and deliver somewhat better energy efficiency and markedly better black level performance than standard LCD TVs. But with black levels on par with...

Tags: Monitors & displays, TVs, TV & Home Theater, Toshiba SV670U, Toshiba Corp.

Product reviews 2009-08-27

Microsoft joins HTML 5 standard fray in earnest

Real standards[i]"That's important because Microsoft has of late embraced a standard-centric philosophy when it comes to what technology IE supports, and IE is of course the dominant browser on the market."[/i]Microsoft has never been particularly keen on supporting real standards, they've always preferred their own formats to maintain their monopoly.IE...

Tags: Web browsers, Quality, XHTML, W3C, Microsoft Corp., standards, HTML, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Web browser, ISO

Discussion threads 2009-08-10

Bolivia:lithium=Saudi:oil?

What's a poor country with rich resources to do? There's the Nigeria model: tribal hatred and long-running civil war. There's the Saudi model: bribe your own people, hire aliens to do the dirty work and execute any dissenters. There's the West Virginia model: give the mining companies...

Tags: Lithium, Bolivia, Battery, Engineering, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-07-14

Can the networks support next-gen smartphone traffic?

As the next generation of mobile devices hits the market---iPhone, Pre and Android-based devices---the next question is whether there's the infrastructure in place to support them. Are we headed into a cellular black hole? As Rory Cellan-Jones points out, O2 has the dominance...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Mobile Network, Mobile, Network, Smart Phone, Cellular Phones, Advertising & Promotion, Smart Phones, 3G, Handhelds, Wireless And Mobility, Networking, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Hardware, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-07-13

Six ways to make SOA services more reusable

Achieving service reuse is a multi-dimensional problem that ties into technical approaches as well as business governance. In my last post, I surfaced some of JP Morgenthal's concerns about the reusability of services in their current state or statefulness. But there are steps that can be taken...

Tags: Adapter, SOA, Service, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-06-26

Enterprise 2.0 conference impressions

I'm in seat 14c on a Virgin America flight back from Boston to San Francisco after an exhilarating Enterprise 2.0 Conference. There's a lot of similarities between this airline and the Enterprise 2.0 movement. The plane has wifi and a good modern user experience but essentially...

Tags: Microsoft SharePoint, Enterprise 2.0, Conference, Collaboration Environment, Sharepoint Plan, Collaboration, Groupware, Content Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-06-25

Airlines on Climate: Don't blame us blame the Banks

I've posted before in these pages about how the business lobby, under pressure to respond to climate change, is starting to fracture. There was another dramatic example of this yesterday in Kuala Lumpur at the annual general meeting of the International Air Transport Association IATA when the CEO, Giovanni Bisignani, took an...

Tags: Bank, Carbon, Climate, Climate Group, Government, James Farrar, Management, Strategy, UK Air Passenger Duty

Blog posts 2009-06-09