networks and application in comment and analysis
Leader: Why mobile TV is important
Leader Well you may ask - this publication does, almost every week, as it doesn't on the surface sound much like an application that will help the average private or public sector user organisation do what it does more... [05 Jun 2006]
3GSM Diary: CEO egos, Motorola's smorgasbord and camera phone as scanner
Comment They are a small, Paris-based company that has latched on to just how prevalent the camera phone has become (360 million phones with cameras to be sold this year, no less) and thought up a business... [14 Feb 2006]
Leader: Give Skype a break
Leader As pointed out by a few readers - including Butler Group analyst Richard Edwards - businesses should be less concerned about Skype circumnavigating their firewall and more concerned about the voice over IP... [11 Nov 2005]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: 3G disappointments
Comment In particular WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) technology was heralded as a great breakthrough, offering great promise. Despite all of this, and the 3G license fiasco, 3G networks... [04 Nov 2005]
Opinion: It's all about 'right-sourcing'
Comment ABN Amro also employs IBM Global Services to cover IT infrastructure (which is often difficult to offshore) while Patni in India and Accenture have 'preferred vendor' status for application development. [31 Oct 2005]
Devil's Advocate: Comic capers and unlikely successes
Comment An intriguing development is the application of the comic book format to the mobile phone. Maybe this is not the killer application so long hoped for by 3G advocates but it might well be the next best... [05 Sep 2005]
VoIP: Don't forget about security
Comment At the call control level, King argues that Cisco's Call Manager application is protected with intrusion prevention software, and serves as a secure control hub for the IP phones. Commentators like Paul... [09 Aug 2005]
Devil's Advocate: ID cards won't stop terrorists
Comment Perhaps on the application form, there will be a box to tick if you are a terrorist. The Home Secretary concedes that ID cards would not stop actual incidents but argues that it would damage the financial... [12 Jul 2005]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Branching out
Comment You can't wander into PC World and buy a POS device or a shrink-wrapped application for calculating welfare payments. But now with the widespread use of IP networks, a single network... [30 Jun 2005]
Leader: The VoIP evolution
Leader The reigning 'softphone' Skype launched two new paid-for features, bring the VoIP application to the level of competing, though technically quite different, services from Vonage and AOL. When it comes to... [15 Apr 2005]
How to secure today's enterprise
Comment King points out that if you use an instant messaging, voice conferencing or video conferencing application provided by a third party, your conversations are leaving the company even if you are communicating with a... [08 Mar 2005]
Will IP unify communications?
Comment Falk Bleyl, senior product manager for VoIP and converged networks at communications provider Thus, recently asked a conference audience how many of them had used Microsoft NetMeeting - an old... [18 Feb 2005]
VoIP primer: How it works - and what the jargon means
Comment On private networks - LAN, WAN or in the carrier's core - application performance can be assured using two distinct quality of service parameters: DiffServ and MPLS. The former is a way... [10 Feb 2005]
Radioactive: The right role for WiMax
Comment Cisco CTO Charles Giancarlo, for example, recently poured cold water on the technology, mainly because its application will be covered by third-generation mobile networks, which should be in action... [05 Jan 2005]
Devil's Advocate: Who's to blame for IT failures?
Comment It aimed to create an application layer that was independent of the underlying hardware and basic software. But as soon as such systems became available in quantity, attempts to join them together in... [30 Nov 2004]
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