Confessions of Second Life novice
By: By Kevin Fitchard
I attended Sun Microsystems’ JavaOne conference today. Yes, yes, yes, big whoop. I know I don’t make a usual practice out of filling you in on my daily reporting activities, but this was a rather a unique experience: I attended it in Second Life...
Who decides?
By: By Carol Wilson
Some days, it seems like the services of tomorrow can't break free of the rules of the past...
Online giant scales the wall
By: By Rahul Ratan
Unlike the Internet, the mobile Internet grew up as a walled garden in the U.S. ...
Ready, set, whine
By: By Carol Wilson
With its announcement today of a new Premium Technical Support service, Verizon is taking a large bull by its considerable horns...
Dark days at Vonage
By: By Carol Wilson
The permanent injunction Verizon won against Vonage comes at a time when VoIP has moved firmly into the mainstream. It's unlikely the legal issues between the two companies will derail VoIP's adoption, but it seems certain to seriously impact Vonage...
About time
By: By Carol Wilson
Last week's Louisiana State Supreme Court decision that ended the legal challenge to the planned Lafayette fiber-to-the-home network put a punctuation mark on a struggle that became emblematic of the challenges municipal networks face...
Victims of success
By: By Carol Wilson
A woman I know recently married her high school sweetheart, after meeting him again at a 25-year reunion. She was then faced with what she now calls the greatest challenge of her lifetime--consolidating the households of two adults...
Delivering the digital lifestyle
By: By Heather Kirksey
As more providers introduce triple-play services, interoperability is becoming the true differentiator. Read the latest installment of our quarterly series on standards, by Heather Kirksey, member of the DSL Forum’s Board of Directors...
Network Neutrality
By: By Carol Wilson
The contrast couldn't have been more stark at one end of the U.S., the high-tech industry was showing off everything that can come to the American home...
Bowling alone nonsense
By: By Ed Gubbins
The distinctive effect of technology has been to enable us to get entertainment and information while remaining entirely alone, Robert Putnam, a public...
So this is IPTV
By: By Carol Wilson
The early knock on telephone company TV efforts was that the service they were providing looked too much like what consumers were already buying from a cable or satellite company, forcing telcos to compete too much on price...
Hurray for us!
By: By Carol Wilson
I'd like to say I am among those chosen by Time Magazine as person of the year, and as an Internet user and contributor, I probably qualify. But what I do is journalism, and while the Internet has dramatically changed the nature of my job and how I work...
Wishing for certainty
By: By Dan O'Shea
You know things are getting pretty tough out there when you see more than 20 vendors band together to urge the Federal Communications Communication to speed up its approval ...
Chambers' magic touch
By: By Carol Wilson
HONG KONG--Spend much time in John Chambers' presence and you begin to think you understand Cisco Systems' great success in the telecom space...
A worldwide invitation
By: By Dan O'Shea
In the U.S, we'll be celebrating Thanksgiving tomorrow. What we should really be doing is preparing for an important telecom industry trade show to be held in the coming weeks. That is ITU Telecom World 2006 in Hong Kong...
An all-too familiar pattern
By: By Carol Wilson
With its IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) efforts, the telecom industry is reliving some of its past as well, but with no assurances of different outcomes...
No chance for real change
By: By Carol Wilson
With Democrats assuming control of the U.S Congress, Washington is bracing for change. It doesn't look like that change will extend to telecom policy, however, at least to the extent that some long overlooked issues are addressed. ...
The other video market
By: By Carol Wilson
A lot is being made of the explosion of video entertainment on the Web, and for good reason. But while everyone from content creators to distributors to ISPs tries to figure out how to build a business in a market in which...
Watching Internet TV
By: By Carol Wilson
To say that Jeff Pulver is excited about Internet-based TV is to say that Buffalo had snow flurries last week. As he indicated at VON earlier this fall, Pulver believes Internet-based TV is about to give the cable and telecom companies a run for their video dollars. ...
A cooling process
By: Dan O'Shea
It may not be NXTcomm--or at least what NXTcomm’s planners propose it will be--but WiMAX World is an impressive little conference and expo coming into its own just as the WiMAX market is coming into its own. ...
A simple proposal
By: By Carol Wilson
Competitive service providers risk losing key political battles unless and until they can develop a single, simple message to take to Washington, D.C....
A bigger wallet share
By: By Carol Wilson
At the core of most debates over where and how much service providers should be investing in their networks is the question of whether consumers are willing to spend more of their discretionary income on new entertainment, information and convergence services. ...
You've VoIPed a long way, baby
By: By Carol Wilson
The growing voice-over-IP industry has improved to the point that it outranks landline phones both in customer satisfaction ratings and in overall audio quality...
Fiber optic confusion
By: By Carol Wilson
It’s clear that there is still uncertainty among telecom service providers when it comes to what form of fiber optic access network makes the most sense--fiber to the premises, fiber to the curb or fiber to the node. ...
Rural telcos follow the Crick
By: By Tim McElligott
There are two kinds of conferences in the telecommunications industry--and likely every other industry--where trade show mania has taken hold. ...
