IPTV: Microsoft jockeys for position
By: By Steve Hawley
There’s little question that most people using a desktop computer, a laptop or some other mobile information device will encounter a Microsoft product very early in the day. Even us Apple users have Microsoft Office...
Cisco the consolidator?
By: By Vince Vittore
The Wall Street Journal last week ran a lengthy article focused on the potential vendor consolidation that could come with the mergers of large Bell companies with long distance providers...
Betting big on sin?
By: By Vince Vittore
On the occasion of Fat Tuesday, a day to celebrate gluttony and clogging of the arteries, it seems only appropriate that today's topic focuses on another of the deadly sins...
The 'S' word
By: By Vince Vittore
The echoes of Ed Whitacre and Dave Dorman were still in the air and already the buzzword of years past had made its reappearance--synergies...
The perils of impairment
By: By Daniel Berninger
It is a sad commentary that AT&T and MCI have found that writing down the value of assets was one sure way to improve profitability...
The convergence comeback
By: By Jason Meyers
The concept of "convergence," a term once so hackneyed and tied to anticipated trends that didn't materialize on time that it became almost taboo, appears to be coming back into fashion these days...
Lessons from Cerritos
By: By Vince Vittore
One of the emerging themes is the importance of the customer premises equipment in the telco/cable fight over who can better bundle services...
SBC opens door to home invasion
By: By Vince Vittore
In chaos is opportunity. As some axiom about business goes. If you believe in that kind of stuff, there's plenty of opportunity awaiting telcos and vendors...
Access vendors have stake in living room battle
By: By Vince Vittore
For the past several years, the consumer electronics industry and service providers (that includes telcos, cable operators and to a lesser extent ISPs)...
No big Bell surprise
By: By Carol Wilson
It shouldn't come as any surprise that the three Bell companies which have announced a broadband access strategy--BellSouth, SBC Communications and Verizon--have...
USF swan song?
By: By Vince Vittore
The ugly process of rule making has been on full display over the past few weeks in Washington. For those outside the Beltway, the procedures and reactions...
Context TV
By: By Vince Vittore
At the risk of appearing wishy-washy, last week's news that Qualcomm will build an $800 million national wireless media network over the next four or...
