How content marketing kept President Obama in office despite a challenging economy To the tens of millions of people who didn’t vote for president Obama in the 2012 election, his reelection came as a surprise. After the historic Tea Party...
TMC has seen an increasingly large amount of companies requesting its assistance in writing white papers. So much so that it made sense to reach outside our normal channels to my readers for guidance and suggestions.At the moment our needs...
Software-defined networking is considered by many to be one of the most important, and potentially disruptive, developments in networking since the rise of the Internet. To date, networks and connectivity have come first, and applications have followed. SDN turns this...
Peter Bernstein has a great analysis piece on how the Unilever/Slim-Fast empire is struggling in-part because the company was too slow to come out with an app as well as the fact that other competitors have expanded their offerings to...
Amazon has shown the world it is possible to compete against the iPad if you offer a smaller device and charge a lot less for it. When the Kindle Fire was released it cost $199 while the equivalent WiFi-only iPad...
This guest blog post is from TMC Senior Editor, Peter Bernstein, a respected analyst covering technology and communications for a number of years. Peter’s post addresses my recent comments about what Best Buy can do to make it in the...
I was happy to learn one of TMC's contributing writers Deborah Hirsch has just received two first place prizes at the Connecticut Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists' annual excellence in journalism awards.I wanted to wish her a very public...
I have been fortunate enough in my career to do something I love – cover technology and be involved in all the most innovative happenings from the early eighties until today. Tech is one of the markets which experiences constant...
Let’s face it, superheroes are pretty cool and aside from Batman and a few others, most of them are low tech. Try for example to post a status update with a hammer. But wait, when you merge low-tech superheroes and...
Angry Birds has certainly taken the world by storm and over Thanksgiving while visiting Disney World I was surprised to see how many people were wearing Angry Birds related clothing - especially shirts. Now, Rovio, the company behind the addictive...
With a heat dissipating aluminum heat sink as well as a proprietary liquid which not only cools the bulb but throws light in a very natural manner, it could be that Switch Lighting will be the GE of LED lighting....
At ITEXPO in Miami on February 2nd, 2012 there will be a breakfast from 8-9:30 am for successful women in tech and telecom. Led by Suzanne Bowen the renowned IP Communications and Social Networking Evangelist, this event is an evolution...
This past August Intel invested $300M in an Ultrabook fund and if you haven’t had a chance to use these high-end laptops from companies like Asus and Toshiba – you should… They are pretty incredible. Light, thin, efficient and fast....
Many of us will be shopping for our favorite geeks and geekettes this holiday season and with all the sites out there from Thinkgeek to Buy.com and Amazon – how on earth do you find the ideal product for that...
Quite often at industry events I hear people say they can’t believe how many events TMC goes to each year and moreover, they ask just how many conferences we cover each year. I haven’t done the math but it’s a...
If you have breaking or other news which you believe is worthy, please reach out to Jaime Hernaez (jhernaez@tmcnet.com) right away to set up a time to meet with members of our team in Austin, Texas at ITEXPO this Monday,...
Until now, end-to-end asset tracking of items which used airplanes couldn’t easily be done because there was no device capable of meeting the requirements of US regulators and airlines. However, a recent breakthrough, three years in the making by OnAsset...
Hi all, in case you are wondering where the TMC team is later this afternoon - we are enjoying our annual gathering and will be enjoying some sun (we hope), good food and fun. Wish you were here. ...
Recently I spent some time in Dallas doing video interviews with companies in the Dallas, Texas area and during the course of the discussions I was able to get a sense of where the markets have been and are going....
Dear readers, in our tireless search to bring you the latest news, the TMC video crew often visits trade shows and even cities to speak with all the companies of interest in a specific geography and/or industry. For companies in...
No matter how many webinars and speaking engagements you do - there always seem to be the last minute butterflies which encourage you to nail your subject matter before presenting. I am going through the slides for my presentation on...
Jonathan Allen, at SES London - courtesy of Flickr and ToprankonlinemarketingTomorrow, I have the pleasure of presenting on a webinar with Jonathan Allen, SEO expert and director of Search Engine Watch. This will be the third-part in a webinar series...
Doug Mohney is covering NASA's STS-135 launch today and to learn more, check out this podcast between Doug and TMC's Erik Linask. I will update you with more of TMCnet's coverage of the launch throughout the day and be sure...
I vividly remember driving my car in 1999 – two years after the company where I am CEO, TMC decided to launch Internet Telephony Magazine and thinking VoIP was going to change the way communications works and eventually kill the...