The world unified communications markets are poised for a huge leap forward as "technologies mature and businesses acknowledge the value of integrating disparate communications and collaboration technologies," according to a recent study.
New analysis from Frost & Sullivan, "World Unified Communications Markets," finds that the installed base of fully-integrated UC users in 2009 was about 2 million, and is likely to reach 50 million by 2015.
As a nascent and largely untested technology, "UC suffered severely from the global recession, which forced businesses to limit investments to those generating immediate ROI," the study found.
Frost & Sullivan Principal Analyst, Unified Communications and Collaboration, Melanie Turek, said UC "offers the potential to drive growth in related markets and encourages companies to upgrade their equipment sooner than they might otherwise."
At CTIA 2010 recently, TMC's Carl Ford spoke with Rajiv Khemani, vice president and general manager at Cavium Networks, in charge of the networks and communications group.
Cavium sells multicore processors, SOCs that go into a variety of embedded applications, networking equipment, wireless equipment, storage and video equipment. The company has been around for about ten years and are publicly owned.
"We have over 200 OEM customers, that includes all the guys in the Tier 1 space," Khemani said, adding that if you use an iPhone, you're probably touching Cavium products twice.
"You're going through a base station, you're going through an aggregation device that's sitting behind it, and those pieces of equipment, from our OEM customers, use Cavium processors."
Recently, TMC's CEO Rich Tehrani attended the CTIA 2010 show in Las Vegas, and had a chance to interview Jeff Ross, managing director with the NetNet Group. The two had an interesting discussion.
Ross gave a brief overview of his company, saying they're a consulting practice focused on providing business development, management and marketing services, "mostly to companies figuring out how to make sense of this whole crazy app, app store space that's out there."
He noted that he developed his first app in 1997, while at Qualcomm, so, "I've been building apps a lot longer than the crazy iPhone, Android craze that's going on now."
Reuters is reporting that Opera Software's Internet browser for Apple's iPhone was "downloaded more than one million times during the first day when it was available to consumers."
Early user Matt comments on the Reuters article, "Opera is very fast on the iPhone, but it's rendering needs some improvement. It's my main desktop browser though."
On April 13 Apple "accepted distribution of Opera's browser for its iPhone after a long review, opening a new and potentially lucrative market" it has so far closely guarded.
In the comments on the article, Mike writes "Maybe its all the people using it, but I have not seen any real improvement in download speeds. Opera was a HUGE improvement over IE on a Windows Mobile device but it really more of just a preference on the iPhone."
We're pros here, so we can handle any assignment thrown our way, but when we were asked to evaluate The Gaffer's contention that the iPad can make soccer, the world's most boring sport, somewhat less stupefying, well, we did what seasoned pros do: Opened a beer or two and got to work.
"I'm not sure about you, but I often watch soccer games on television with a laptop either next to me or on my lap," Gaff writes. Don't worry, he can be sure about whether I'm watching soccer on television or not.
"I can check scores from other games, look up stats, jot down ideas for blog posts or watch games being televised live at the same time on FoxSoccer.tv," he says. Here, we can save you the time - the score's either 0-0 or 1-0 in favor of the team from somewhere near Uzbekistan.
Gaffer thinks there are five ways the iPad can "revolutionize" soccer. So do we. Here's our list:
