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It's official: we have become a nation of multi-taskers. Digital omnivores - defined as those consumers who own a trio of tablets, smartphones and laptops - account for more than one third (37 percent) of U.S. consumers.
The announcement that Microsoft Office is officially coming to the Apple iPad should be taken with a grain of salt. But the fact you can get free Word, Excel, and PowerPoint straight from the App store -- as well as for the iPhone and Android phones for free -- should be viewed with some consternation by Google and Apple. Nothing says business like Microsoft.
At the ICANN 49 Public Meeting event in Singapore, leading experts and companies in the cybersecurity, Internet and Domain Name infrastructure industry announced the formation of the Secure Domain Foundation.
It is a reasonable question to ask when U.S. telco access lines (including all broadband and narrowband connections) will stop falling, a process that began in 2000 and has continued unabated since then, driven in part by a shift of voice consumption to mobile networks and market share lost to cable operators and other independent Internet service providers.
Beyond being unconstitutional and likely legally impossible, one of the founders of the Occupy Wall Street movement has called upon President Obama to appoint Eric Schmidt CEO of America.
To unlock the full potential of voice as information, you need to look to the much ignored call center world. I say this with a twinge of reluctance, but call centers have been at the leading edge of getting the most of voice for over a decade. The rest of the service provider enterprise world needs to get onboard as those sectors fully embrace voice over IP and an all IP world.
Network neutrality is a tough concept to understand, much less explain. But matters are not helped when virtually anything becomes subject to network neutrality concepts. When Netflix and Comcast negotiate an interconnection agreement, that is framed as a network neutrality issue.
Value appears to be a growing source of pain for subscribers to linear video entertainment packages, and prices would seem to be part of the reason for the dissatisfaction.
National CineMedia set out a decade ago to help their three huge cinema network owners maximize their facilities by broadcasting non-movie content - and advertising - via satellite to thousands of theater screens nationwide.
They need to be connected to each other to anticipate problems other cars are having and so the entire traffic system actually works as a system. He thinks they will first be allowed to drive in HOV lanes to contain the risk and cars need to recognize between objects to make them safer - which is where the NVIDIA Tegra K1 comes in. He also apparently talked about the need to redesign cities to make self-driving cars better optimize their efficiency which, if that happens, might revisit Disney's vision for the city of tomorrow.
This week, the Global mobile Suppliers Association (GSA) announced 100 mobile carriers are now offering HD voice service around the globe. In addition, Sprint says it will offer its version of HD voice nationwide by this summer. Add in NTT DoCoMo's LTE roaming announcement and a lot of pieces are falling into place around the globe with the latest group of carriers offering HD voice providing some interesting data.
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