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Cisco’s collaboration view follows On-Communications’ message 2008-05-06 02:16:39 Cisco’s John Chambers tells partners it’s time to pounce on the next market transition
Extract from an article originally published in CRN magazine, 28th April 2008
To hear John Chambers tell it, there’s a new network in town. As the chairman and CEO of Cisco Systems geared up for the Cisco Partner Summit 2008 in Honolulu, he [...] Read more:Cisco
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Apple Okays VoIP over Wi-Fi for iPhone 2008-03-12 04:51:23 Extract from an article originally published by Broadbandreports.com 9th March 2008
Apple
announced recently that it would not block third party developers from creating VoIP over Wi-Fi solutions on the iPhone
and iPod Touch. However, they noted that the solutions have to work over Wi-Fi and not through the cellular network. This may make sense to [...]
Is Net TV Slowing Broadband Speeds? 2008-01-31 03:03:19 The popularity of bandwidth-heavy video content raises the issue of who should pay for network upgrades, ISPs or content providers
Extract from an article originally published in Business Week 28th January 2008
The massive increase in bandwidth-heavy online TV and video content being downloaded by UK broadband users has raised questions about whether current networks can cope [...] Read more:Slowing
Mobile Skype features at CES 2008 2008-01-30 04:20:43 Wireless devices from 3, Intel, Nokia, Sony and others demonstrating Skype
at the 2008 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas
Extract from an article published by VoIPinBusiness.co.uk on 7 Jan 2008
Skype’s general manager of mobile and hardware devices Gareth O’Loughlin says “with the introduction of new mass-market devices at CES that support Skype, millions of [...] Read more:Mobile
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Technologies on the rise in 2008 2008-01-24 13:58:13 A number of technologies have exploded throughout 2007, from Facebook and the iPhone to the Nintendo Wii.
Extract from a BBC News Website item published 1 January 2008
But what will be making the headlines over the next 12 months?
The BBC News website gives its predictions for technologies that could become big in 2008.
The Web to Go
WiMAX
Mobile [...]
Mobile VoIP 2008-01-24 13:24:32 BBC News predicts Mobile
VoIP to be big in 2008.
Extract from a BBC News Website item published 1 January 2008.
VoIP is a technology that allows users to make cheap phone calls over the internet. Although some firms such as Jajah and Truphone have offered VoIP on mobiles the technology is still relatively nascent. However, 2008 [...]
WiMAX 2008-01-23 05:25:46 BBC News tips WiMAX
as key a technology to make it big in 2008.
Extract from a BBC News Website item originally published 1 January 2008.
Wimax is a wireless technology that can deliver high speed broadband over long distances. It is already big in the US with companies such as Sprint and Intel backing the [...]
The Web To Go 2008-01-23 05:17:55 The number 1 technology prediction for 2008 from BBC News.
Extract from a BBC News Wedsite item originally published 1 January 2008.
One of the biggest drawbacks of web applications is that they can only be used when there is an internet connection.
Although mobile working is becoming increasingly common, ubiquitous connectivity is still a long way off. But [...]
BT announces fibre roll out 2008-07-15 11:54:44 Extract from an article published on ZDnet.co.uk, 15th July 2008
The move ends the long-running debate over who would be first to make a major investment in ‘next-generation access’ (NGA) in the UK. BT, which has already been trialling fibre to the home (FTTH) at a new development in Ebbsfleet, Kent, has said the new programme [...]