November 19, 2007
EDITOR'S LETTER
Facts are facts
It's interesting to me that in Europe, a market in which there is already substantial competition, the head of the European Union's media commission is pushing for more...
COVER STORY
Open wide
Using Web 2.0, Web services and SOA to beat Internet competitors at their own game...
FORWARD MOTION
Nokia on Google
Don't expect to find Google's new Android platform on a Nokia phone soon, if ever...
Small telcos feel merger pressure
In the wake of major-carrier consolidation, merger activity among small and regional telcos is escalating and should continue next year...
At your service: TalkPlus
Convinced of the power of voice over IP (VoIP) to deliver more than just cheaper minutes, Jeff Black, CEO of TalkPlus, and team created an application and service to bring advanced call management to smartphones...
HD showdown
With the holidays approaching, high-definition television sets will top many consumer wish lists, bringing the total of HDTV-owning households to more than 30 million...
Bringing HD video to SMBs
LifeSize leads a down-market charge with low-cost videoconferencing...
40G at last for Verizon
The long-anticipated move to a 40 Gb/s backbone network arrived last week for Verizon Business...
Web ads find unwanted attention
The Web advertising business is all about attracting eyeballs. But this time thanks to new, uber-aggressive approaches to better targeting Web ads it may have attracted the wrong kind of attention...
Privacy concerns grow
Technology that enables service providers to know more about what their customers are doing online is constantly improving...
Targeted advertising could offer new value
The traditional model of advertising is slowly beginning to give way to addressable ads that viewers want to see...
Sigma Systems in right place at right time
Sigma Systems was a thought leader in the telecom software space at the height of the Internet, telecom and competitive carrier investment craze...
TXP ushers in multivendor FTTP
Third-party optical network terminals could lower fiber network costs...
Device management is hot, but is it standard?
The industry appears to have rediscovered the need for device management, but the TeleManagement Forum has begun asking if it is a solution in need of a standard...
OPINION
Squeezable services
The term couch potato is more than just a cute nickname for television consumers. Though we talk a lot about how to win over those couch potatoes, we too often forget what the term really means: lazy, shiftless people...
Facebook: More social than network
Facebook has come up at most major trade shows this year, touted as a professional networking tool, advertising medium and communications hub...
INNOVATION
Staking a claim in FMC
As service providers roll out the first converged services for consumers and enterprises, fixed/mobile convergence solution vendors have a chance to get their name into the ring in a growing space...
ETHERNET
WHAT'S NEXT
It's an upstream world
Forget what you know about network engineering because it's worthless...
