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Research Shows More Innovation under a Joint Chairman/CEO
Many of us know people who struck it rich in an IPO and then decided to retire or take time off. If a percentage of people in a company decide to leave the organization when it decides to go public,...
Is Apple Telegraphing A Tablet Market as Large as PCs?
I'm Predicting 500,000,000 tablets sold by 2015 (updated - an eagle-eyed reader noticed I left out 3 zeros for the various iPad estimates throughout!)Through informal research I have seen iPad owners not giving up on their PCs – in fact...
TMC Robotics News Becomes Robotics Wire
TMC's robotics coverage has just evolved with a new look and name. We've been covering the space for many years but now this coverage area has become Robotics Wire and can be found at roboticswire.com. Robotics technology is evolving and...
ShopVisible on Mobile Commerce
There has been and will continue to be a massive increase in mobile commerce as consumers are becoming more accustomed to shopping online and mobile devices are proliferating and providing bigger screens and better interfaces. Personally I have been amazed...
TelX and Cisco Ethernet Exchange and Bandwidth Predictions
New TMC video personality discusses the latest communications and technology news Please join me in welcoming Juliana Kenny to the TMC news room and to the TMC team where she will be writing, editing and producing videos. Here is her...
Survey: Mobile Phones Much More Favorable than Social Networks
In a tough decade, what could people count on to make their lives better? Communications - yes communications. 50% percent of people surveyed by Pew viewed the last decade unfavorably and 27% viewed it positively. Here are some of the...
87% of Executives Agree Face-to-Face Meetings are Best
A recent Forbes survey shows business executives prefer face-to-face meetings over those of the virtual type. As expected 58% of respondents said they were travelling for business less today than they were at the beginning of the recession in January...
ITEXPO West 2009 Show News
Be sure to check out all of the exciting news happening at ITEXPO. In order to get up to date news be sure to bookmark the show news page and check out the three show dailies which have already been...
Weekend Fuzzy Logic Thoughts
I sometimes get negative feedback when I discuss areas outside tech and telecom on this blog so I decided that if I am going to go off on a tangent I will usually restrict it to the weekend when my critics...
TMCnet Visitors Cautiously Optimistic About 2009
For those of us in telecom and tech, there is obvious concern about where the economy is headed - just like any other industry. The difference for us is we have seen a recent bubble burst and don't have the...
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%...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
