Posts Tagged ‘Internet’
Net may get clogged in a pandemic
The upcoming flu season highlights the need for organizations to have pandemic plans in place, but work-at-home (WAH) strategies may be in jeopardy as residential Internet bandwidth supply may not meet demand, according to Gartner, Inc. According to the Center for Disease Control, the rule of thumb for pandemic planning is that 40 percent of [...]
Internet industry at CeBIT 2010
The Internet industry will write the next chapter of its success story at CeBIT 2010, where every facet of digital business will be showcased in Hall 6 from 2 to 6 March. The focal point will be the Webciety Area. Its innovative honeycomb space concept symbolizes a “walk-in Internet”, where young start-up companies will feature [...]
Vodafone 360 – New Internet Services for Mobile and PC
Vodafone 360 is a brand new set of internet services for the mobile and PC which gathers all of a customer’s friends, communities, entertainment and personal favourites (like music, games, photos and video) in one place. At its heart Vodafone 360 has the most personal address book available, bringing together all of the contacts from [...]
IDC: opportunities for telco players in CEE
Communications companies in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) are reevaluating their business plans, due to the global economic crisis. According to data from IDC, changes now occurring with regard to consolidation, government spending, and technology migration will make it easier for companies to weather the economic downturn.
Boxee: Open Source solution for Internet TV
Nice toy at CES, the only free solution to get Internet on yout TV, called Boxee. via Boxee: Open Source Connected TV (PC World) by PC World: Yahoo! Tech. The current version of Boxee runs on Intel-based Macs, Apple TV and Linux machines (it works particularly easily on Ubuntu distributions). A Windows version should be [...]
Blackberry preps music / video store?
Research in Motion is buying Chalk Media, producer of Mobile Chalkboard, a software app that alows sending voice or video messages trough pushcast technology to mobile terminals. Officially it’s for companies that want to communicate with their people. But RIM also announced it wants to buy Certicom Corporation, a company that specialize in digital encryption [...]
Mobile Learning: teens to make movies about the future
More than 60 teenagers were challenged to think about what their lives will be like in 2020 — and then make their own film about it.The project belongs to Nokia and Pearson Foundation, with Mobile Learning Institute and Westchester County. Envision 2020 Celebration 2008 is hosted at the Westchester County Center in White Plains. This [...]
New online video platform gets support from Microsoft, Sun and Adobe
Velocix announced that Metro, a next-generation Web video delivery solution – adapted and optimized specifically for operation within Internet Service Provider (ISP) access networks – has gained support from Adobe and Microsoft to provide streaming technologies. Sun Microsystems is the preferred equipment provider to Velocix Metro.
3G for laptops is over-hyped
The near-term importance of new embedded-3G and embedded-WiMAX notebooks has been significantly over-estimated, according to a new research report published by Disruptive Analysis. Even in three year’s time, laptops with built-in wireless access will only be used by 30% of total, active mobile broadband subscribers globally. External USB modems (or “dongles”) will account for 58% [...]
