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Apple vs. SP Technologies

August 7, 2007

Can you imagine a world where iPhones didn’t have access to touch screen technology? Well a company called SP Technologies has a patent on what seems to be the keyboard mechanism on the Apple iPhone. Will this mean Apple is doomed? Probably not. Let’s see how this one plays out. Here is the story from CIO Today. TMCnet's Tim Gray also covered the news.

Posted in Apple, Consumer Electronics, FCC, Microsoft, Science, Technology, Wireless

TMC White Papers

August 7, 2007

I thought you may be interested in some of the latest white papers and research brought to you by TMC and its partners:

· VoIP that Works! · Fax Solutions for Service Providers and Enterprise: Integrating SIP T.38 Fax with VoIP Networks & Clients · Shift From Tactical to Strategic Focus: Transforming IT Through Convergence, Alignment and Good Governance · Grow Revenue and Reduce Time to Market with Dialogic Building Blocks · Guidebook Oracle’s Siebel CRM on Demand · Integrated Vs. Unified: Putting the Pieces Together · Enhancing VoIP with Voice Peering · VoIP Reliability

Posted in Call Center, IMS, IP Communications, IPTV, ITEXPO, Microsoft, SIP, Science, Security, Skype, Technology, Unified Communications, Video, VoIP, Wireless

Telephone System Channel

August 6, 2007

If you aren’t aware, TMC has built with its partners, the largest collection of business to business online communities in the communications and technology space. Channels are micro communities which live on the left navigation of TMCnet menus. Global Online Communities are in yellow and live in the top navigation area of TMCnet’s home and other pages. The latest channel/micro community we have built is in partnership with IPitomy and is called obviously enough the Telephone System Channel. On this channel you will find all the information on telephone systems you could ever want. For example, here is an article which discusses research firm ABI’s thoughts on SIP and how it is transforming telephone systems today.

Posted in Broadband, CRM, Call Center, Cisco, Conferencing, Google, IP Communications, IPTV, Microsoft, Patent, SIP, Science, Security, Skype, Speech Technologies, Technology, Video, VoIP, Vonage, Wireless

iPhone, U-Phone, Everybody G-Phone

August 2, 2007

This year has been the absolutely most tumultuous ever in terms of wireless communications and these changes can and will have a dramatic effect on your business. You can’t go anywhere these days without seeing Apple’s iPhone in action. Kids have them, Mac loyalists have them and most importantly, your coworkers have them. The question is… How do you support them and what policies and procedures do you need in place to ensure you are ready for the onslaught of questions and interoperability issues this phone will bring to the market. What about security? How will we deal with the potential for these devices to get lost without the ability to remotely wipe confidential corporate data? If a single-industry changing phone wasn’t enough for telecom and IT managers to deal with, we now have Google’s G-Phone (or it could be called Google Phone… Time will tell) looming in the telecom wings just waiting to disrupt the service provider business model and potentially the way you plan and negotiate your wireless telecom contracts. Then there is the 700 MHz spectrum with it’s potential to enable an army of devices on new wireless spectrum.

Posted in Apple, Broadband, Cisco, Consumer Electronics, FCC, Google, IP Communications, Microsoft, Patent, SIP, Science, Security, Technology, Video, VoIP, Wireless

Bee Problem Solved

July 20, 2007

Global warming, cell phones, pesticides and many other theories were thrown out to explain why bees around the world are dying. It turns out the real case of the world bee decline is a microscopic parasite called nosema ceranae common in Asian bees. This variant seems to be more resistant to dry weather and thankfully for about $3/year/hive you can treat the problem. Here is more from Reuters.

Posted in Science

TMCnet Goes Twitter

July 4, 2007

It seems like if you are under 18 you spend a good deal of time twittering on well – Twitter. Since my typical reader is above 18 you may not be aware that Twitter is a service allowing you to send and receive messages via SMS on cell phones. People spend hours letting their friends know (in excruciating detail sometimes) about all aspects of their life. “I am going to have lunch.” “I am having a snack.” “I am sick,” are some of the things you may see while twittering. But if you get sick of twittering with friends and are interested in using Twitter to keep up with the latest (and best of course) communications and technology news and analysis, be sure to check twitter.com/tmcnet.

Posted in Apple, Broadband, CRM, Call Center, Cisco, Conferencing, Consumer Electronics, FCC, Google, Green, IMS, IP Communications, IPTV, ITEXPO, JITC, Microsoft, Musings, Open Source, Patent, Personal, Podcast, Rates Technology, SIP, Science, Security, Skype, Speech Technologies, TMC Team, TMC Video, TMCnet, Technology, Unified Communications, Video, VoIP, Vonage, WiMAX, Wireless

Why Are the Bees Dying?

June 15, 2007

The reason the bees are dying is linked potentially to pesticides but this is not 100% certain as a new pathogen has also recently been discovered. I have written about the dying bees before -- Bees Gone Wild, Colony Collapse Disorder. Here is more from MSNBC. Now it seems the birds are dying as well. Here is more from the Philadelphia Inquirer.

Posted in Science

Democrats Say You are Lying

June 7, 2007

Here is an interesting story from CNET on Google’s need for more immigrants with H1-B visas. According to the article, some Democrats wonder if Google is doing enough to recruit Americans. The question worth asking is are these Democrats serious? One of the most ingenious hiring campaigns I have ever seen in the United States comes from Google. This billboard which poses a math question and requires you to know the answer before responding is an example of Google going above and beyond to hire US workers. This story was even on NPR.ORG… Don’t tell me some Democrats missed it. Google is spending millions of dollars on recruiting in the US and took the time to testify in Washington on this matter.

Posted in Google, Microsoft, Science, Security, Technology

Palm Foleo

May 31, 2007

I love gadgets and I love what Palm has done for the handheld market. I love the concept of Palm rolling out a new laptop-sized device. But that is where it ends. The new Palm Foleo has a fraction of the functionality of a Windows computer but is priced just under an equivalent laptop. It syncs nicely with your mobile device but then again so does your laptop. I haven’t had a chance to use this new product but in my mind I can think of virtually no one who needs it.

Posted in Apple, Consumer Electronics, Microsoft, Science, Security, Technology, Wireless

Dragons at Your Door

May 30, 2007

How Chinese Cost Innovation is Disrupting Global Competition I just received Dragons at Your Door from the Harvard Business School Press and I was going to put it on the bookshelf but for some reason I started to skim it. The timing was perfect as a well-respected PR director made a comment yesterday about an acquirer for Avaya. They said Huawei might be the best company to pick them up. I wasn’t so sure when he mentioned this idea but the more I think about it the more it makes sense. I skimmed the book for a few minutes and it is rife with a examples of our dealings with China and other countries and it discusses the similarities between competition from China and Japan. I haven’t spent enough time on it to say it is good or bad but the book has whetted my appetite to a point where I will put it on my list of books to read. When free time allows of course.

Posted in Broadband, Consumer Electronics, Science, Technology

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