Femtocell technology has been hailed as an alternative to deliver the advantages of fixed mobile convergence. Poised for commercial launches by Telcos around the world in 2009, we take a closer look at this nascent new wireless mobile technology.
As of this past October, there were some 300 million 3G UMTS subscribers around the world. Actual airtime is not available, but anecdotal evidence suggests that uptake on the video abilities afforded by 3G remains dismally low. Paul Mah suggests some possible applications of 3G video for the IT professional.
Having collection of equipment that can be transported to another datacenter or location can be convenient for a number of reasons. While these collections may not as sophisticated as Google’s ocean-based datacenter, network administrators may be presented with challenges with mobile equipment. This mobile equipment collection may be used for staging resources during an upgrade, consolidation capacity during a merger or acquisition, a traveling demonstration system or other legitimate purposes.
With the BlackBerry Bold finally launching in the United States on Election Day just next week, here is a review of my month’s experience of the Bold from the perspective of a heavy user.
Paul Mah has been using the BlackBerry Bold for almost a week and has some thoughts about deploying this latest smartphone by RIM in the enterprise.
On the heels of Comcast’s recent decision to enforce a 250 GB bandwidth limit on residential customers, network administrators may wonder what this means for telecommuters. While a remote site’s network connectivity would be a business category plan, most telecommuters use the residential class service for price reasons or service availability. What is unclear within […]
E-book readers allow you to take hundreds of books and documents along with you in a device that’s not much bigger than your smart phone. Michael Kassner will look at the technology behind these products and give some opinions about two of the e-book readers using a road warrior’s perspective.
As a former volunteer firefighter/EMT, I understand the need for high quality communications on any type of emergency. Having something like the Cisco NERV available to on-scene emergency teams will certainly make their difficult job a great deal easier.
The last few years have seen a dramatic increase in the proliferation of portable consumer gadgets: iPods, PSP, mobile phones and laptops are all power-hungry devices. A common lament is that battery technology has failed to keep up. Silver-zinc battery technology however, might just change that.
Video conferencing accounted for 28 percent of all Skype calls last year. Michael Kassner discusses why Skype should be considered a telepresence platform and how the multimedia technology of Skype has improved.