Cisco's take on 4G: It's all about video Cisco is predicting that the advent of 4G services will lead to an explosion of new video applications that will transform telecom service providers into what the company is dubbing "experience providers." Bing vs. Google vs. Yahoo: Feature Smackdown How do these services stack up against each other? Bing targets four categories of search: shopping, local, travel, and health. In a highly subjective comparison, I tested Bing, Google, and Yahoo in these areas and in others. IP Video Conferencing: No guts, no glory A couple of months back, I blogged on the interesting challenges that deploying IP video conferencing technologies poses to service quality and service assurance especially when it comes to network capacity and performance. Since then, the picture is starting to clear regarding how these technologies work, and some of the cost savings they can deliver. Verizon tops in enterprise VoIP market, says Infonetics A combination of a large subscriber base and financial stability has put Verizon Business on top of Infonetics Research's rankings of enterprise VoIP providers. Palm Pre launch is high-stakes gamble Saturday, the launch day for the Palm Pre smartphone, will be a big day all around for Palm, struggling carrier Sprint Nextel and anyone looking for another slick alternative to the Apple iPhone. But next Friday may have even more historic significance for all those parties, according to Avi Greengart. Which came first: the network or the app? Smartphone innovations abound, driving fierce competition among the mobile network operators. Mobile app stores are pumping out juicy new handheld applications that quickly chew up bandwidth. So all the major mobile network operators are embroiled in neck-and-neck moves to boost capacity while also jockeying to lay claim to the fair-haired smartphone du jour. Court says government background security checks go too far Can background checks go too far? The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals apparently thinks so. BT finally begins ADSL2+ rollout Days after it was revealed that millions of UK homes can only get broadband speeds of less than 2Mbit/s, BT has finally announced it will roll out ADSL2+ technology to all its consumer and business customers, free of charge. Cell phones! $#!&! Gibbs continues his rant about cell phone service providers and customer disservice and wonders how we can afford to let what are critical communications be run by what is effectively a cartel that just wants to squeeze us for every last cent it can while providing, at best, mediocre service? Altogether now: "I'm mad as hell
" The Sims 3: Breathlessly Anticipated, Masterfully Executed It's shiny, sexy, and perplexingly emerald-green, but more than anything, The Sims 3 -- Electronic Arts' groomed and gussied-up digital dollhouse -- is intrepid and wonderful. June Giveaways Cisco Subnet and Microsoft Subnet are giving away training from Global Knowledge to two lucky readers and 15 copies each of books on IPv6 security, the Cisco Secure Firewall Services Module, and Active Directory Domain Services 2008. Deadline for entries June 30. |
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