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Skype to FCC: Keep the Internet Open & Neutral
Skype, a big proponent of open networks and net neutrality, in a filing today with the Federal Communications Commission argued that net neutrality was “about growing the broadband ecosystem and preserving a borderless, open Internet” and said it would “promote investment, jobs and innovation.” The company said that it “welcomes the Commission’s focus on preserving... »
Skype to FCC: Keep Internet Open & Neutral
Skype, a big proponent of open networks and net neutrality, in a filing today with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), argued that net neutrality was “about growing the broadband ecosystem and preserving a borderless, open Internet” and said it would “promote investment, jobs and innovation.” The company said that it “welcomes the Commission’s focus on... »
Study: Broadband does indeed help local economies
U.S. broadband policy in recent months has been driven by a widely held assumption that the availability of broadband in an area will help improve the economy. A study released Wednesday puts some scholarship behind that assumption, with the author saying that broadband indeed has economic benefits. Areas that moved from having no broadband to... »
Cell Phones Do a Body (& Mind) Good
Well, well well – it appears that cell phone radiation isn’t all that bad; brain cancer be damned! You see, a recent study showed that electromagnetic radiation exposed to mice actually reversed Alzheimer’s disease and improved cognitive capabilities. So you see, you are smarter the more you use your smartphone. According to... »
Mobile phone radiation ‘protects’ against Alzheimer’s
After all the concern over possible damage to health from using mobile phones, scientists have found a potential benefit from radiation. Their work has been carried out on mice, but it suggests mobiles might protect against Alzheimer’s. Florida scientists found that phone radiation actually protected the memories of mice programmed to get Alzheimer’s disease. To read this... »
Lax Wireless-Device Security Exposes 2 in 5 Enterprises
Nearly two of every five enterprises are at risk of exposing sensitive data on wireless devices, and ineffective wireless policies and protocols could be to blame according to the latest research from AOTMP. The findings are surprising given the recent study also shows almost 90 percent of enterprises view security …(282 words) Related Topics: data,... »
Lax Wireless-Device Security Exposes 2 in 5 Enterprises
Nearly two of every five enterprises are at risk of exposing sensitive data on wireless devices, and ineffective wireless policies and protocols could be to blame according to the latest research from AOTMP. The findings are surprising given the recent study also shows almost 90 percent of enterprises view security …(282 words) ... »
Pew survey finds America’s internet, broadband and mobile phone use flatlines
The Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life Project has identified some flat lines in Americans technology use in a report released Tuesday that examined Internet, broadband, and cell phone use nationally. The percentage of U.S. adults who use the Internet is just a point higher than it was back in 2006, clocking in... »
BT: IT Investment Key to Innovation, Economic Recovery
World business leaders believe underinvestment in IT has harmed innovation and cost them customers during the recession. That’s according to a new international study by BT Global Services. The Enterprise Intelligence survey has also identified the challenges facing chief information officers as enterprises begin to take on cloud services.BT says …(411 words) Related Topics: BT,... »
AT&T BusinessDirect Once Again Leads the Pack in Analyst Firm’s Review of Customer Web Portals
AT&T today announced that for the fifth consecutive year, AT&T BusinessDirect® topped the list of telecom carrier customer Web portals in an annual benchmark study conducted by the independent research firm, Yankee Group. Related Topics: AT&T, business, carrier, LEC, review, study, telecom »
Kids on call: phone firms target tots
They’re bright, colourful and cute – but they’re not toys. Meet the new generation of mobile phones, coming soon to a five-year-old near you. Phones like the Firefly and Britain’s Teddyfone are targeted at very young children, with new research showing that one in four seven to 10-year-olds already owns a phone. The study, commissioned... »
Study shows broadband brings productivity gains for New Zealand business
New Zealand businesses with broadband were 10 per cent more productive than businesses without it, a world-first study by Motu Economic and Public Policy Research has found. Although fast internet access is widely considered to enhance productivity, Motu senior fellow Arthur Grimes said the 18-month study, using 2006 data, was the first to estimate the... »
For Apple, a Holly Jolly Christmas
Apple, it seems, had a very nice Christmas — thanks to booming sales of its iPod touch. Apple’s App Store saw a a sharp spike in downloads during the month of December, according to results of a study conducted by Flurry Media, a San Francisco-based mobile analytics company. In 2008, when Apple’s App Store... »
Top Stories of 2009: SIP trunking and Unified Communications gain momentum
In 2009 it was hard to look through VoIP news and not bump into another announcement about a SIP or Unified Communications (UC) deal. Both items have gained momentum and are becoming the rule in the VoIP world. According to Infonetics, SIP trunking service revenue is expected to have an 89 percent compound annual growth rate... »
VoIP semiconductor market could see uptick with new VoIP spend
Frost and Sullivan has released a new report on how VoIP cost savings is a key growth factor for the semiconductor market for VoIP applications. In some ways, this is a new take on a trend we’ve been hearing all year. The tough economy has made sales soft for everyone, but we’ve seen some uptick... »
Case Study: How one SMB got a makeover with UC
Mailing brochures and making calls on your old legacy POTS phone is so over. In the age of unified communications (UC) even small businesses are looking like enterprise operations when they employ the latest communications advancements. With all the recent talk of VoIP equipment sales and how SMBs are upgrading to IP communications and UC in... »
Mobile Internet to Dominate Within 5 Years — Study
The mobile Internet is growing faster than its desktop counterpart ever did, and more users may go online via mobile devices than desktop PCs within five years, according to a new study by investment firm Morgan Stanley. The intriguing prediction is one of many in the firm’s massive “The Mobile Internet Report,” a 424-page epic... »
Study finds mobile phones ‘have not increased brain cancers’
There has been no substantial change in the number of adult brain tumours since mobile phone usage sharply increased in the mid-1990s, Danish scientists say. The Danish Cancer Society looked at the rates of brain tumours among 20 to 79 year olds from Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. They found that trends in cancer rates had... »
Businesses Continue To Value IT Assets
Reseults from a recent study by market research firm Ronin Corp. show that more strategic companies have made heftier investments in IT and are utilizing more advanced technology. The survey also found that long-term strategy and best-in-class solutions were at the top of the list in terms of buying criteria; …(107 words) ... »
Motorola to Sell 600,000 Droids in 2009
Motorola and Verizon, thanks to their $100 million marketing efforts, are going to sell some 600,000 Droids during the fourth quarter of 2009, according to Mark McKechnie of Broadpoint AmTech, a boutique research firm. He had initially expected about 200,000 device sales following the launch, but he has upped his forecast: Motorola should sell... »
DVDs, On Demand, Netflix & Streaming Video By the Numbers
A few weeks ago, I relegated my 6-year-old Sony DVD player to exclusive CD playback duties and replaced it with a new, network-enabled Samsung Blu-Ray DVD player, which includes access to Netflix’s streaming service for that company’s subscribers. So I signed in and before you know it, I had wasted my entire weekend catching... »
Long-term use of mobile phones ‘may be linked to cancer’
Long-term use of mobile phones may be linked to some cancers, a landmark international study will conclude later this year. A £20million, decade-long investigation overseen by the World Health Organisation (WHO) will publish evidence that heavy users face a higher risk of developing brain tumours later in life, The Daily Telegraph can disclose. … A preliminary breakdown... »
Licence fragmentation is hindering pan-EU shopping market, say stakeholders
Fragmented and complex publishing arrangements are hindering the growth of a European online music market and must be replaced with more open and transparent agreements, music industry groups and the European Commission have agreed. Record labels EMI and Universal, retailers Amazon and Apple and licensing bodies PRS for Music and SACEM have told the Commission... »
Is Long Term Evolution Technology Really Needed So Urgently?
Dean Bubley submits: There was an interesting story in yesterday’s Fierce Wireless that apparently Long Term Evolution (LTE) is needed urgently in 2010 to avert a capacity crunch for mobile broadband. Well, I guess that means we’re on for a crunch, then. I’m not expecting to see any major deployments of LTE in Europe until... »
Study: Unified Communications provides 4X the ROI
A study carried out about Frost & Sullivan–commissioned by Cisco and Verizon–found that collaboration tools like VoIP, instant messaging, and high-definition video meetings resulted in cost savings averaging four times the return on investment for firms using the IP platforms. Frost and Sullivan surveyed 3,662 decision makers in small- and medium-sized business as well... »
Study: US Broadband in Middle of Pack
The United States is in the middle of the global pack on broadband infrastructure and is forging a very different upgrade path than the rest of the world, according to a new report (PDF) by Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society. The report was commissioned by the Federal Communications Commission, as part of... »
Internet now dominated by ‘traffic superpowers’
Something extraordinary is happening to the Internet. According to one of the largest analyses of traffic yet undertaken, what the world calls ‘ the Internet’ is rapidly turning into an entity that exists inside and between a tiny number of hosting superpowers. According to Arbor Networks, which gathered the data for its 2009 Atlas Observatory... »
Study charts links between mobile phones, tumours
Studies on whether mobile phones can cause cancer, especially brain tumours, vary widely in quality and there may be some bias in those showing the least risk, researchers reported on Tuesday. So far it is difficult to demonstrate any link, although the best studies do suggest some association between mobile phone use and cancer, the... »
Telecoms reform tabled as EU plots spam clampdown
The European Commission is calling on tougher action to fight spammers and protect online privacy. A Commission-funded study found that enforcement action against junk mailers across the EU is inconsistent. It wants to see spam laws tightened up, alongside “clearer and more consistent enforcement rules”, funds to support national privacy watchdogs and better cross-border cooperation. To... »
On Smartphones, Gimmicky Apps Only Work for So Long
This just in: Applications that are mere gimmicks — think Lighter, iFart and IQ Test — lose the attention of smartphone owners after being just used a few times. Flurry Inc., a San Francisco-based startup that tracks the apps marketplace, recently conducted a study of more than 1,800 apps, 75 million consumers and four mobile... »