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A Team of Former Rivals Offers Words of Advice

For years, Ray Wang, a partner with Altimeter Group, and Bruce Richardson, chief strategy officer at Infor, worked for competing research firms. The two former rivals recently sat down for a dialogue on how business leaders can take advantage of today’s changing software landscape, Read the full article here.

LTE: The Future of Mobile Data

by Steven Hartley

Long Term Evolution (LTE), a new generation of mobile network technology, promises to revolutionize the use of data services on the move. Over the past year, it has gained unparalleled support from mobile operators around the world, particularly in North America. Its introduction is now inevitable, despite the major investment needed. Read the full article here.

WiMAX

The Reality and the Potential

Why WiMAX…and why now? A few years ago, the technology promised to change the economics of Internet access by providing faster, more efficient broadband service over unprecedented distances and growing into a ubiquitous open wireless network. Read the full article here.

Cloud Computing

And the Goal of IT-Business Alignment

by David Mitchell

In his 1962 book Profiles of the Future, scientist and author Arthur C. Clarke says that any sufficiently advanced technology will be indistinguishable from magic. Read the full article here.

Unified Communications

Seven Ways To Deliver Value

by Nancee Ruzicka

The promise of unified communications (UC) is simplification and real-time access to people, applications, data and collaborative support. Read the full article here.

Unified Communications
Enabling Innovation While Reducing Costs

By Nancee Ruzicka

A look at how unified communications are helping to keep mobile businesspeople connected and productive, as well as the newest technologies that are making communicating while on the go even easier. Read the full article here.

Telepresence

Business Travel Goes Virtual

By Richard Grigonis

In this era of globalization, the need to easily communicate and collaborate among geographically dispersed individuals and groups of people has become a significant concern. Read the full article here.

Interactive TV Rises Again,
Pushed On by IPTV

Television industry strategists are again whispering the once disgraced term “interactive TV.”

By James L. McQuivey
In the past year, a phoenix has been
rising from the interactive TV ashes in the form ofGames, Sports trackers, Information inserts...Read the full article here.

Going Global

The BlackBerry® 8830 World Edition Smartphone — supported by Verizon Wireless — is the ideal traveling companion.

By Curtis Rist

That’s the busy traveler’s dream? A BlackBerry device that works around the world and around the block. Read the full article here.

Unified Communications
Are Businesses Ready?

By Nancee Ruzicka

Every day decision makers are presented with new applications and alternatives for communicating. Desktops and smart phones are crowded with applications for e-mail, voicemail, messaging, conferencing, video and Internet. Read the full article here.

Industry News

The Voice Network Is Dead. Long Live Voice.

Yesterday's announcement by T-Mobile Germany that it will allow fee-paying users to use Skype and other voice over IP (VoIP) services is a shot to be heard round the telecom world. Read the full article here.

Verizon Sells Most of Its Remaining Rural Footprint to Frontier

On May 13, Verizon disclosed that it has reached an agreement with Frontier Communications to sell 4.8 million access lines, representing approximately 13% of Verizon's total. Read the full article here.

The Palm Pre: Setting A New Standard

As much as it announces the return of Palm to the spotlight, the release of the Palm Pre on June 6, 2009 will reinvigorate the battle for high end devices. Read the full article here.

A Crack in the Wall? Apple, RIM, and Nokia Bring Skype to the Handset

Mobile device OEMs and Skype are opting to step around the operator in providing the voice over IP application preloaded on devices. Read the full article here.

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