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Emerging Threats Combats a Million Plus Pieces of New Malware a Week

By Rich Tehrani on Friday, May 17

There are 250,000 plus new pieces of malware being produced each day equating to one piece per person in the US in...

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Tagged emerging threats, interop, malware, security

NFV-Based Software Telcos Need OSS/BSS Interoperability

By Rich Tehrani on Friday, May 17

One of the goals of ETSI NFV is to allow new entrants to provide solutions to carriers based on software instead of...

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Tagged bss, carrier, ericsson, huawei, interoperability, nfv, nokia siemens networks, nsn, oss, sdn, software telco

SysAid's Lifshitz: The Cloud Will Dominate ITSM Market

By Rich Tehrani on Thursday, May 16

Cloud computing has really become a household word with mainstream media outlets running stories on television about the growth in the space...

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Tagged help desk, itsm, mdm, sysaid

Avaya Takes Networking Lead in SPB

By Rich Tehrani on Wednesday, May 15

At Interop Las Vegas 2013 Avaya was demonstrating their real-world Shortest Path Bridging (SPB) solutions and while interoperating with Spirent, HP and...

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Tagged alcatel-lucent, avaya, hp, interop, lucent, mpls, networking, spb, spirent, zeus kerravala

Alianza Wants to Host Your Software Telco

By Rich Tehrani on Tuesday, May 14

The software telco(r)evolution representing the move from hardware to software is perhaps the biggest trend in the world of carrier telecom this...

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Tagged acme packet, alianza, etsi, hosted ims, nfv, oracle, software telco, software telco congress, virtualization

WebRTC Screen Sharing Using Openfire

By Tom Keating on Tuesday, May 14

I've written about WebRTC screen sharing, but today I came across another WebRTC screen sharing solution leveraging Openfire and using WebSockets and...

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Tagged chrome, desktop sharing, firefox, jabber, screen sharing, unified communications, webrtc, xmpp

LTE Network Interactions

By Jim Machi on Tuesday, May 14

According to a recently released GSMA Wireless Intelligence infographic, there are 163 live LTE networks today, and that figure is expected...

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Tagged 3G, 3GPP Long Term Evolution, Broadforward, Dialogic, Diameter, LTE, Radius, Wi-Fi | Responses

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Verizon Wireless Back to 97.2% after Sandy

November 2, 2012

Living through hurricane Sandy in Connecticut maybe eight miles from the shore shielded me from believing the damage would be as bad as it was. Much of the state – by the Long Island Sound especially, got slammed. By now you have likely seen the photos and videos of the damage. Especially lower Manhattan, Staten Island and New Jersey.

Back to Connecticut, I may never have seen so many trees down in my life and many cities near where I live had over 70% of their residents without power immediately following the storm.

Posted in 4G, AT&T, Apple, Broadband, FCC, Technology, Verizon, Wireless

Tagged: 3g, 4g, at&t, att, hurricane, lte, mobile, sandy, sprint, t-mobile, verizon, wireless : Related Tags: sandy affected, wireless service, lower manhattan, mobile, network, sandy

The Best Election Technology For a Contentious Election?

November 1, 2012

This election will likely be one of the most contentious of our lifetimes. Moreover, with the memory of recounts in Florida during the Bush/Gore election clobbering the stock market for over a week, there are likely many who hope the same situation doesn’t occur in 2012. The challenge is there are a number of swing states which are a really close meaning we could see a scenario play out where there are multiple state recounts.

Could you imagine the horror in the financial markets if such a situation were to play out?

Posted in Technology

Tagged: election, technology, uconn : Related Tags: election, video, technology

A Little Heavy Chrome

November 1, 2012

Google has a new heavy metal-based TV commercial which has a Halloween undercurrent. The ad touts the $249 Samsung-made Chromebook as being smaller, better on batteries and good for “scaring off viruses.” It goes on to discuss its lack of phantom files and crashes. Although the video has had under 100,000 views I can see it going viral and perhaps adding a zero to that number.

What is unclear is how much demand there will be for a cloud-based laptop which seems to ape the look of an Apple computer at a fraction of the price.

Posted in 4G, AT&T, Amazon, Android, Apple, Broadband, Cloud Computing, Consumer Electronics, Gadget, Google, Microsoft, Open Source, Technology, Ultrabook, Verizon, Wireless, iPad

Tagged: android, apple, arm, chrome, chromebook, galaxy, google, htc, samsung : Related Tags:

Hurricane Sandy: All Electronic Trading Likely to Cease Tomorrow

October 28, 2012

I have it on good authority that all US markets will be shut down as a result of hurricane Sandy. This includes electronic trading which is a new addition - earlier you may have heard human trading was to be shut down. Exchanges affected according to sources are NASDAQ, BATS Direct Edge, NYSE CME and CBOE.
This will definitely happen unless Mary Shapiro, chairman of the SEC overrules the decision.
Moreover a shutdown like this as a result of weather is very rare.
I wish you all a safe and secure week.

Update: All cash markets and options markets will be closed on Monday and Tuesday.

Posted in Financial

Tagged: financial : Related Tags: hurricane sandy, electronic trading, markets, trading

WebRTC: The Phone meets the Web

October 19, 2012

We have seen the multi-billion dollar communications market get disrupted as the phone met the IP network. In the video below Phil Edholm describes how with WebRTC, the phone meets the web. As he describes, even though IP communications has been around for more than a decade, there hasn’t been a fundamental change in how we communicate. We still hang our phones off servers which allow communications to take place.

Posted in Android, Broadband, Communications Developer, Conference, Consumer Electronics, Facebook, Gadget, Google, HD Voice, HTML5, IP Communications, Open Source, SIP, Skype, Technology, Twitter, Unified Communications, Video, VoIP, Wireless

Tagged: avaya, communications, conference, html5, ip telephony, nortel, phil edholm, skype, uc, video, voip, webrtc : Related Tags: webrtc phone, business model, phone meets, phone network, webrtc, communications

Amazon's Evolving Views on Patents

October 18, 2012

In the 1990 patent suits in tech were quite infrequent but today, there is more news on international patents than just about any other tech news category. That’s why I thought this research note from the Yankee Group was worth sharing. Bezos is certainly not the only person to have a concern about a behavior he once espoused but he certainly benefited from such behavior in a spectacular way.

Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon, isn’t keeping it a secret that he isn’t a fan of the seemingly constant patent lawsuits happening today.

Posted in Amazon, Consumer Electronics, Patent, Technology

Tagged: amazon, jeff bezos, lawsuit, patents, yankee group : Related Tags: patent system, yankee group, might actually, amazon, bezos, patent

Banks, The Latest Threat to Groupon and LivingSocial

October 18, 2012

If there is one constant these days it is that your competitors tomorrow are going to come from the most unlikely of places. Apple came from nowhere to unseat RIM and Nokia in mobile phones, Amazon is becoming a major force in tablets, Google’s Chrome and Android products have made it a major force in software and operating systems.

But the examples above are technology-based so they shouldn’t be too surprising as we have come to expect tech companies to be quick to enter new markets. What could portend a future trend however is Bank of America’s move into the deals business.

Posted in Amazon, Android, E-Commerce, Facebook, Financial, Technology

Tagged: american express, amex, bank of america, bofa, coupons, ecommerce, groupon, livingsocial : Related Tags: american express, groupon livingsocial, major force, banks, customers

Best Buy Tablet Doomed?

October 17, 2012

The common sense analysis of Best Buy’s new Android-based tablet is it is doomed because if only Amazon is able to pull a tablet off by breaking even or even potentially losing money and even Samsung isn’t making a dent in the market, how can Best Buy do any better? The reality is the success of this strategy is a long shot but by the same token you can think of this tablet as a generic product or store brand.

In other words when you go to Costco and buy a Kirkland product you are essentially buying a “store brand” not necessarily manufactured by the retailer, just resold. So Best Buy’s Insignia Flex tablet expected to sell between $239 and $259 can simply be considered a new product in the house-brand category.

Posted in 4G, AT&T, Amazon, Android, Apple, Broadband, Consumer Electronics, IP Communications, Technology, Verizon, Video, Wireless

Tagged: apple, best buy, consumer electronics, gadget, google, ipad, samsung, tablet, wireless : Related Tags: store brand, tablet doomed, tablet, market, amazon, apple

For Microsoft Surface, Is it Mission Impossible?

October 16, 2012

Microsoft, here is your mission. Take a device which has become synonymous with the term “post-PC era” and topple it. Go up against a company which is considered cool and somehow transform your image to be as cool. If you decide to accept this mission you must take your reputation for developing bloated operating systems and software and scale it all down to run in a tablet form factor where a person can use the device for an entire day without recharging.

Posted in Apple, Consumer Electronics, Gadget, Microsoft, Technology, Ultrabook, Wireless

Tagged: apple, ios, ipad, microsoft, surface, tablet, windows, windows 8, windows rt : Related Tags: microsoft surface, accept mission, microsoft, mission, device, surface

Simultaneous Voice & Data: AT&T's Big iPhone Advantage

October 16, 2012

While Verizon has a great 3G network and more recently a great 4G network, there is one drawback iPhone users still have using 4G LTE and that is you can’t access simultaneous voice and data over the 4G network. This is a pretty big limitation and AT&T users can rest assured that even if they have worse coverage, they will be able to multitask by surfing and talking or emailing and talking.

Want to surf the web or send email while talking on your iPhone 5 using Verizon or Sprint? Well, you may as well be holding this:

More from Ars Technica and Apple Insider

Posted in 4G, AT&T, Amazon, Android, Apple, Broadband, Open Source, Technology, Wireless

Tagged: 4g, apple, at&t, iphone, iphone 5, lte, verizon : Related Tags: simultaneous voice, network, iphone, talking

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