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VoIP Growing at 53% to $24 Billion

The VoIP opportunity is still huge according to a new report from Infonetics Research. At a time when many industries are really hurting, hosted VoIP and managed IP PBX services grew 53% to $24 billion in 2007 after surging 66%...

Posted on August 15, 2008 9:24 AM

McCain To Support Technology

It has been pretty shocking to me to see that the Bush Administration did not embrace technology in a more grand fashion. After all, Vice President Al Gore was so enthusiastic about the Internet he even claimed to invent it.So...

Posted on August 14, 2008 2:32 PM

Smell, Don't Drink That Coffee

 And you thought you needed to drink that coffee to get the full effects. In what has to be the world's worst discovery for coffeehouses, it seems that it is possible that smelling coffee proscues a similar effect to drinking...

Posted on June 14, 2008 10:23 AM

iPhone Adoption and Women

Women love iPhones but not as many as I thought. The iPhone seems the natural phone for women as it is stylish, powerful and easy to use. I would have guessed that more than 50% of iPhone users are women...

Posted on June 10, 2008 8:49 PM

Post Memorial Day Communications Update

It has been a long weekend for many in the US as the weather these past few days was fantastic and based on the level of incoming e-mail I received, it seems many in the tech and telecom industries took...

Posted on May 27, 2008 3:54 PM

IPTV Growth

TMCnet's Eve Sullivan writes about the massive adoption rates of IPTV worldwide. Apparently IPTV services grew from 4.7 million households in 2006 to 14 million in 2007. The growth rate in Europe actually hit 250%. Here is more information...

Posted on April 12, 2008 6:42 AM

Virus Fights Brain Cancer

Check out this great article on how a virus can be altered to cure brain cancer. While this is not something we can use to cure humans as of yet, the potential for this breakthrough is great. "The brain cancers...

Posted on March 13, 2008 10:07 AM

Monitor Size Boosts Productivity

In case you thought people who ask for and use multiple monitors are just being silly, there is now research which shows what I have known for many years. More monitor real estate means more productivity. In fact two...

Posted on March 10, 2008 7:37 AM

Corporate Phone Bills: $133 Billion in 2008

A staggering $133 billion dollars will be spent on communications services by businesses in 2008 according to Insight Research. 39% of this spending will be on cell phone bills. This staggering amount could be reduced if companies explore IP...

Posted on February 14, 2008 4:43 PM

Telecom Growing Nicely

It’s a good time to be in telecom. With all the housing gloom and doom it is nice to see that at least the telecom market is doing exceedingly well. Of course you have to pick your battles… Consumer VoIP...

Posted on December 5, 2007 4:04 PM

WiFi, Autism Link

For obvious reasons I became alarmed when I read an article linking WiFi and autism (article intentionally not linked). I told some friends and relatives about the report and they all seemed concerned and asked for links to the story....

Posted on November 24, 2007 1:01 PM

Thoughts on Alcatel-Lucent

Wow. It has been quite a week. I am sitting here in Norwalk, CT – TMC’s headquarters and feel a bit under the weather. This is not a surprise as I haven’t slept since last Friday due the super-busy schedule...

Posted on September 13, 2007 6:04 PM

Telephone System Channel

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...

Posted on August 6, 2007 3:16 PM

IT Outsourcing Research

Is there value in outsourcing your information technology operation? The Aberdeen Group has an excellent and thorough report on this subject in a benchmark report which examines the expectations of outsourcing as well as some of the providers.   Interestingly...

Posted on July 6, 2007 6:37 PM

Forrester VoIP Study

Apparently VoIP Could grow more quickly according to a study from Forrester. The company says their research shows VoIP software is too hard to use. I have asked for the report but haven’t received it yet. I just wonder if...

Posted on April 16, 2007 11:03 AM

Brockmann Research

I’ve known Peter Brockmann for many years as he used to work for 3COM on the NBX product line. This product line was one of the first PC PBXs in the space as you may recall.   Peter recently began...

Posted on April 5, 2007 2:13 PM

$1.27 Billion in VoIP Support Services Revenue by 2010

A sign of a healthy market is one in which there is lots of money being made. IDC reports that the VoIP services market will be growing at a phenomenal rate. I was blown away to discover they predict VoIP...

Posted on October 19, 2006 12:16 PM

VoIP Grows 22%

I am a big believer in the fact that Vonage spends too much money on advertising. My thoughts are they are that they can cut down their expense without significantly reducung subscriber additions. But with VoIP growing at 22% and...

Posted on August 15, 2006 8:45 AM