If I have said it once, I have said it a hundred times….”Hyperconnectivity is a megatrend whereby everyone and everything that can benefit from being connected to the network will be connected.” And that includes enterprises themselves! After all, every... continue reading...
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“The boundary between work and personal connectivity for the hyperconnected is almost nonexistent. Two-thirds use text or instant messaging for both work and personal use. More than a third use social networking for both. “ This comes from a white... continue reading...
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We had a very interesting day with a number of journalists, all heavy bloggers, who visited us at the Nortel R&D worldwide headquarters in Ottawa. The focus of the day was demos of some of our pre-product innovative/incubation R&D in... continue reading...
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We all accept that hyperconnectivity is coming- everyone who can benefit from being connected will be connected using whatever device he or she is using. But in fact, it's happening faster than we expected. A Nortel-funded IDC survey of nearly... continue reading...
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Hyperconnectivity is a megatrend whereby everything and everyone that can benefit from being connected will be connected. The down side is that things that don’t deliver business benefit can also be connected. And today marks the thirtieth anniversary of spam-... continue reading...
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You’re wandering around Second Life and need to get some info, so you dial a 1-800 number for help. A contact center agent or expert gets "teleported" into the virtual world on-demand in response to your need. That’s the scenario... continue reading...
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Combine a Samsung phone with a heart rate monitor, a stride sensor in your Adidas running shoes and you get MiCoach. The phone can act as an MP3 player and tell you to run faster if you’re not keeping pace.... continue reading...
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Google is partnering with San Francisco to provide free phone numbers and voicemail boxes to homeless individuals. In my mind, this is a very insightful solution to a problem that every city in the world is facing: reaching the homeless... continue reading...
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Last week, I presented a keynote at ITExpo in Miami. I joked with Rich Trehani, after he introduced me, that the conference should be renamed from “Internet Telephony Expo” to “In-transition Technologies Expo”. Why? Because there are huge things happening... continue reading...
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Another example of hyperconnectivity at home. A friend of mine received a digital picture frame from his daughter for Christmas. A key feature, or so she thought, was the ability to wirelessly connect to a PC and display any photo... continue reading...
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Welcome to 2008 and all the best to all my fellow bloggers for the new year, wherever you are around the world. Interesting offer from my local utility. They will install a smart thermostat in my home for free, and... continue reading...
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You may have heard about the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) initiative, headed by Nicholas Negroponte of MIT. The OLPC is centered on the XO laptop, which among other things has wireless mesh connectivity, allowing connectivity to the Internet from... continue reading...
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The headshot accompanying this blog shows a clipped Cape Horn in the background. Recently I talked about Hyperconnectivity at the Government Tech Conference East in Albany. What’s the connection? At the conference I met (again) Neal Petersen, a motivational speaker,... continue reading...
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Have you heard that 1. Nortel and Microsoft announced that enterprises are deploying more than 430,000 licenses for our joint Unified Communications (UC) solutions? 2. One enterprise’s HVAC system has 30,000 IP addressable points? 3. iPhones at Duke University temporarily... continue reading...
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