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Effectively Telling Your Product's Story

By Rich Tehrani on Tuesday, Jun 18

One of the most interesting aspects of my career is watching the thousands of companies I have met over the years make...

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Tagged advertising, kodak, mad men, marketing

Dialogic and Cisco Round Out Day's NFV News

By Rich Tehrani on Tuesday, Jun 18

It’s been a busy week regarding NFV and the software telco (R)evolution. First off Dialogic had some solid thoughts on six of...

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Tagged cisco, dialogic, network functions virtualization, nfv, software telco

The Big Deal about Big Data Analytics

By Peter Bernstein on Tuesday, Jun 18

By Greg Owens, Senior Director Customer Experience Solutions Marketing, Alcatel-Lucent

The rise of big data is causing service providers to ask some big questions: How should we store our data? How long should we keep it? What parts of it are relevant to our business? Most importantly, how do we get value from it? To turn big data into a big deal, service providers need to extract insights that can help them make smart business decisions and improve the customer experience.

The value of big data is all in what useful and actionable information it can provide. I find it exciting to see how service providers use big data analytics to gain new insights and solve complex problems. With this post, I’ll look at some new research by industry analysts and three key opportunities that big data analytics presents to service providers.
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Tagged Alcatel-Lucent, analytics, Big Data, customer expereince, Greg Owens, QoS | Responses

WebRTC: The Revolution Won't Occur Without a Media Server

By Jim Machi on Tuesday, Jun 18

Next Thursday at the WebRTC Conference and Expo, I’ll present a conference keynote that might not be exactly what attendees expect...

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Tagged Atlanta, Internet Protocol, Media server, PSTN, Public switched telephone network, Voice over Internet Protocol, Web browser, WebRTC | Responses

Software Telcos Based on NFV Want Less Equipment Provider M&A

By Rich Tehrani on Tuesday, Jun 18

Mergers are nothing new but about a decade ago in the telecom market they reached a fever pitch when SBC purchased AT&T...

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Tagged at&t, etsi, nfv, sbc, sdn, software telco, wireless

Linux Foundation Embedded Solutions Director's Case for Open Source and Connected Car

By Suzanne Bowen on Monday, Jun 17

The car of 2013 is different from the one I learned to drive, a 1974 Ford Maverick with rear federal bumpers, aluminum...

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Tagged Connected car, Ford Maverick, Ford Motor Company, Linus Torvalds, Linux, linux foundation, Mercedes Benz, open source, Original equipment manufacturer, rudolf streif, Tata Elxsi | Responses

Business Video and Queen Lead Guitarist Brian May

By Suzanne Bowen on Monday, Jun 17

"A good video can make all the difference," says Brian May (Ph.D. Astro-Physics and Queen lead guitarist). Such is true for business!Even...

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Tagged Bohemian Rhapsody, Brian May, Business, Complete History of the Universe, Muntwo, Queen, Video, Youtube | Responses

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I'm Too Sexy For Consumers: B2B Tech IPOs Are Hot

September 24, 2012

B2B Tech is hot once again thanks to a string of consumer social IPO losses and B2B successes

In the fickle world of consumer purchasing behavior it is tough to predict what trends will last. Few things seem to be predictable in the market beyond their desire to amass more devices powered by Apple's iOS.

There are spectacular examples of consumer companies which were here today and gone tomorrow – perhaps AOL, Yahoo! and MySpace are the best examples of entities that rapidly became irrelevant because consumers moved on.

And while Facebook has done an infinitely better job than MySpace of keeping its social network sticky and relevant, it still has become a textbook definition of investor loss and IPO blowup.

Posted in Facebook, Financial, Social Networking, Technology

Tagged: advertising, aol, b2b, consumer, facebook, ipo, linkedin, marketing, myspace, palo alto networks, pandora, splunk, yahoo, zynga : Related Tags: while facebook, chart shows, price while, business, while, consumer

Funniest iPhone 5 Videos

September 24, 2012

Some of the funniest videos related to the iPhone 5 have to be Jimmy Kimmel showing people an iPhone 4S and marveling at how fascinated people were.

It sort of reminds us of the Samsung ads which make fun of the people in the Apple lines for being dim.

Without a doubt this person in line takes the cake as being the least informed about the new device and it makes you wonder, exactly who is paying her credit card bill.

And this my friends is the genius of Apple and its marketing machine... People want the newest phone from the company and don't even know why.

Posted in 4G, AT&T, Apple, Consumer Electronics, Gadget, Verizon

Tagged: apple, iphone, iphone 5, wireless : Related Tags: people, iphone

See an Ultrabook with Touch and Sensor Tech

September 21, 2012

Although this video from Intel is a few months old it shows developers how they can develop touch and sensor based applications for Metro and desktop mode on the company's new Ivy Bridge-based Windows 8 Ultrabooks. Perhaps most interesting is the accelerometer demo which seems clunky on a laptop but one imagines with a removable keyboard this feature will be as useful as it is on tablets and smartphones.

I watched with some interest the ability to specify objects on the screen for pinching and zooming - I suppose Apple's attorney's may have some comments on the matter for Intel.

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

Tagged: apple, intel, microsoft, mobile, ultrabook, windows, wireless : Related Tags: touch sensor

Will the $35 Aakash Tablet Transform the World?

September 21, 2012

The iPhone 5 is selling at retail stores today to millions of people who are obviously wealthy. After all an unlocked 64GB model which is unlocked runs $849! Some people are so bent out of shape about how much money Apple is making from the launch of this phone, they are protesting.

While most of the world is focusing on Apple, what may be interesting to note is in India there is a new and usable tablet which starts at just $35. As Gary Kim points out, the DataWind Aakash UbiSlate 7Ci is a super-cheap tablet that will attempt to connect every student in India to the Internet.

The tablet has a 7.5 inch display, a front facing camera and surfs the web about as fast as an iPhone - probably not as fast as the iPhone 5 though.

Posted in 4G, AT&T, Amazon, Android, Apple, Broadband, Consumer Electronics, Google, Technology

Tagged: aakash, amazon, android, apple, datawind, google, iphone, iphone 5, oha, tablet : Related Tags: millions people, transform world, disposable camera, tablet, launch, iphone

Galaxy S3 Ad Mocks iPhone 5 Lines

September 21, 2012

Samsung continues to mock Apple fans waiting in line for features Samsung phones already have. And in other cases for features they will still have to wait for.

Take a look below:

Posted in 4G, AT&T, Amazon, Apple, Consumer Electronics, Gadget, Technology, Verizon, Wireless

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Will Corporate Welfare Slow International Trade?

September 20, 2012

Nortel’s bankruptcy some years back was due to a host of reasons including price competition from the likes of ZTE and Huawei. Consider that while the world’s telecom equipment manufacturers were acquiring companies during a growing telecom bubble, these two stood back and focused more on imitating the best technology they could find instead of making inflated purchases in the billions of dollars.

But China is a communist/capitalist mish mosh and as such national interests can drive it to do whatever it takes to win in international markets. This is why EU Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht is pushing a trade case against these telecom giants who are said to be receiving state subsidies in order to undercut European rivals.

Posted in 4G, AT&T, Broadband, Consumer Electronics, Financial, Gadget, Technology, Wireless

Tagged: alcatel-lucent, china, ericsson, eu, Huawei, nokia siemens networks, nortel, nsn, qe, quantitative easing, wireless, zte : Related Tags: competing unfairly, corporate welfare, competing, trade, value, money

Now it's Occupy Apple?

September 20, 2012

Some of the Occupy Wall Street crowd has turned its attention to Apple and its roll out of the iPhone 5. After all, this evil company decided to take on the two largest phone makers non-US based Nokia and RIM, and make them irrelevant in less than half a decade. Moreover, these disciples of Satan from Cupertino had the gall to have their stock increase by hundreds of billions of dollars and in the process help hundreds of thousands of investors including people holding IRAs, 401Ks, and those who benefit from pension funds like school teachers, firefighters, policemen and legions of other union and non-union workers.

One occupy protester, Shiloh Coral (above) said it best when she explained that instead of enriching Apple and the consumer culture it benefits from, we should invest in education and helping low-income families.

Posted in 4G, AT&T, Amazon, Apple, Broadband, Consumer Electronics, Gadget, Technology, Verizon, Wireless, iPad

Tagged: apple, iphone, iphone 5, occupy wall street, ows : Related Tags: income families, hundreds thousands, apple, occupy, income, people

TMCnet Launches Redesign

September 19, 2012

You may have noticed TMCnet has gone through a dramatic redesign today to make it easier to navigate. We hope you like it.

Posted in TMC Team, TMCnet, Technology

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News from TeliaSonera, Stage2 Networks, Sidera Networks and More

September 13, 2012

There's been lots of activity in the TMC newsroom with many new guests coming to our Norwalk, CT studio to tell us what is new and exciting at their companies.

At around 170 million mobile subscribers, TeliaSonera is a major mobile carrier supplying much of Eastern Europe and Russia. Ivo Pascucci of TeliaSonera discussed how his area of the company company differentiates itself in the wholesale carrier market. Services include wave services, collocation and wholesale IP transit for carriers, content providers and gaming companies.

From there Joe Gillette from cloud communications provider and NY-based Stage2 Networks told me about the company’s thoughts on hosted voice services.

Posted in AT&T, Broadband, Cloud Computing, Facebook, Financial, Networking, Optical, Technology, Twitter, Video, VoIP, Wireless

Tagged: broadband, clec, dark fiber, data center, facebook, marketing, optical, pr, social, technology, twitter : Related Tags: sidera networks, stage networks, ilissa miller, company, services, companies

Is Apple's New Lightning Connector a Dead End?

September 13, 2012

Apple fans will view the introduction of the new Apple Lightning Connector with mixed emotions because while the new plug enables their gadgets to continue the march towards minuteness, all existing Apple plugs and accessories have been rendered moot. If you are a hotel chain with thousands of alarm clocks and treadmills which have the old Apple connectors in place you have a huge choice to make… Do you upgrade the devices or provide adapters at $29 apiece? The Wall Street Journal has an article today which details how a hotel chain called NYLO just upgraded its hotel rooms with almost 600 iPhone-dock clock radios which are now potentially obsolete.

One company taking advantage of the situation is Jawbone who has a creative new video out showing how the dock is dead.

Posted in 4G, Android, Apple, Consumer Electronics, Gadget, Microsoft, Technology, Wireless

Tagged: apple, connector, firewire, iphone, iphone 5, isa, lightning, mca, microusb, usb : Related Tags: lightning connector, upgrade devices, hotel chain, companies using, apple, connector

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