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Cloud Telephony Explained And Dissected At ITEXPO East
If you want to get a better idea of what “cloud telephony” is, or just want to start discovering what it could mean for your business, you can’t miss Cloud Communications Summit in Miami taking place on January 20-22. Organized by pal Thomas Howe, better known as Mr Mashup, this summit wants to give you... »
Startup Time at IT Expo
While the holiday season is getting into full swing it is hard to believe that we’re now less than a month away from the Winter Edition of IT Expo. To me it only feels like yesterday when Rich Tehrani and his team put on one of the best telecom events they ever have in... »
Digium|Asterisk World Expands At ITEXPO
TMC and Digium announced that all exhibit space sold out at their expanded Digium|Asterisk World, scheduled to take place Jan. 20-22, 2010 as part of ITEXPO East in Miami, Florida. Recently, TMC was forced to expand the Digium|Asterisk World exhibit showcase since all 16 spaces originally allocated had been sold. There are... »
Genuity Capital: Wireless Trends from the Open Mobile Summit
Mark McQueen (Wellington Financial) submits: The world of investment banking tech research analysts is a competitive one, so the saavy types make a strong effort to step beyond the traditional quarterly report publication grind. A great example of this came from Genuity Capital Markets, whose Wireless Analyst spent some time in California at the... »
WiMAX Forum and LTE Summit – A Tale of Two Conferences
Dean Bubley submits: I’ve been in Amsterdam with the WiMAX Forum for the past couple of days, at their global summit event. It’s been an interesting contrast with the LTE Summit in Berlin a fortnight ago. In format terms, the LTE event was more of a traditional conference, with bigger plenary sessions. The WiMAX event... »
Does the Mobile Network Standards Process Inhibit Innovation?
Dean Bubley submits: One of the things that struck me from the LTE summit last week was that the way that some standards bodies operate (notably 3GPP) risks, entrenching legacy business models for operators and others. This is ironic, as many standards groups, staffed by engineering-type people, try to avoid the whole issue of commercial... »
Pulver announces dates for 2nd HD Comm. Summit
It sounds like Jeff Pulver’s first HD Communications Summit was a success, as he’s already announced the dates for the second installment. The next HD Communications Summit will take place Sept. 15-16, 2009, in New York City. Pulver believes HD voice “holds the same promise for the telecom industry as format changes in the entertainment... »
Great Coverage of HD VoIP Summit
One of the challenges of growing my business is being everywhere at once. Sometimes its at conferences and other times its being with clients working on the next big thing. Last week when Jeff Pulver held his first HD Voice Summit i was locked away for two days and a half in San Francisco... »
HD Voice Summit This Week in NYC
Jeff Pulver is back into the VoIP game, sort of. He’s hosting a conference this week in New York City which I wish I was attending, but client commitments and another event here on the west coast this week are keeping me “closer to home.” The HD Voice Summit promises to delve into the aspects... »
How Can Telcos Win in the CDN Market?
Dan Rayburn submits: At last week’s Content Delivery Summit, I moderated a panel with speakers from Deutsche Telekom (DT), Global Crossing (GLBC), Level 3 (LVLT) and Tata Communications (TCL) who discussed how over time, they believe they can dominate the CDN market. (video archives of the panel will be online shortly) It was a very interesting... »
British Government considering support for broadband, says Lord Mandelson
The trade secretary, Lord Mandelson, has indicated that the government is considering “pump priming” financial intervention to ensure next-generation broadband is available to all UK households. Speaking at the Digital Britain summit in London today, Mandelson said the government cannot be content with the telecoms industry’s current plans, which will only make super-fast broadband services... »
‘Broadband for all’ plan given new push by UK government
The government has proposed putting tens of millions of pounds behind Lord Carter’s ambition to offer everyone in Britain access to broadband by 2012, and is also looking to bring mobile phone services to the entire country as part of a major push to create a digital economy. Gordon Brown yesterday backed the communications minister’s... »
Bringing sexy back to VoIP – and what’s next
After a drought of news this winter, the floodgates have opened wide for the latest on VoIP and Phone 2.0 applications. It’s a big dessert cart, and I can’t decide what I like best. Supreme kudos to Lee S. Dryburgh for organizing eComm 2009. There are a lot of next-generation network/Phone 2.0 thought leaders at... »
Pulver rides back with HD VoIP Summit
The Purple Pundit is back in action in the VoIP arena. Jeff Pulver has announced a call for speakers for the HD VoIP Summit on May 21, 2009, in New York City. But will he host it in the Puck Building? To “explore issues associated with the widespread deployment of HD VoIP,” the new conference coincidentally... »
Meru Launches ‘WINS’ Partner Program
Meru Networks has launched the Wireless Interoperability and Network Solutions (WINS) partner program at Meru’s Customer Summit 2009, taking place today through Friday in San Jose, Calif. The program verifies interoperability of partners’ wireless solutions with Meru’s virtual cell wireless LAN infrastructure.The program’s 32 charter members have had their mobile …(259 words) ... »
Japan’s Telecom Market to Show Modest Growth Through 2013, Pyramid Research Predicts
Japan’s telecommunications services market will grow by 1.1 percent each year over the next five years, with revenue growth from IPTV, VoIP, and mobile data services making up for declines in legacy service offerings, according to the latest report from Pyramid Research (pyr.com), the telecom research arm of the Light Reading Communications... »
Google & The Big Ideas
Sometimes, a tweet is just a tweet. Occasionally it is just a start of a healthy debate! Earlier today, when I read about Google launching a mobile version of Tasks. I was amazed by the attention being focused on essentially a to-do list website. And while it wasn’t worth a story, I shared my feelings via... »
SocComm Is Approaching, Don’t Miss It
One of the conferences you cannot miss this year is SocComm, the inaugural event of, hopefully, a long series of conferences about “MICE”, Media/Internet/Communications/Entertainment. Jeff Pulver, the mind behind it, is putting together a very hot show for anyone interested in exploring, learn and discuss what’s going on in the field of social communications. SocComm will... »
Conferences, Conferences, Conferences
In a down economy the time to do business to grow is when everyone is cutting back. February brings on a series of events, conferences and trade shows that make it easy to find your next customer. First up in Florida is the winter version of IT Expo, held in Miami Beach February 2-4. I'll be... »
Skype To Play It Up Big At eComm 2009 In March
Having just seen Jonathan Christensen of Skype at the recent Open Mobile Summit on a panel with Om Malik and a few others last week, I felt it was timely to bring up Skype’s participation at eComm in March. Related Topics: 2008, AT&T, conference, DSL, Gizmo, Gizmo Project, Info, Internet, Jajah, LEC, Mobile, phone, platform,... »
Jeff Pulver’s Social Communications Summit
Jeff Pulver is putting together a new conference in the field of social communications called The Social Communications Summit. »