CIO published an executive brief post today citing what they feel are the technologies that matter in a slow economy. From screen sharing technologies to netbooks, it’s a great list and an interesting read- definitely worth a look.
1. Virtualization – Virtualization makes it possible for workers to overlap work schedules across different time zones and [...]
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CIO’s List of Technologies that Matter in a Slow Economy
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Mobile Video Subscribers to Exceed Half a Billion Users by 2014
In late May, Nielsen’s quarterly Three Screen Report stated that U.S. mobile video viewers grew to 13.4 million in Q1 of 2009. Now, new research from Pyramid Research predicts that worldwide mobile video subscribers will grow five-fold between 2008 and 2014, to surpass 534 million.
The report “Mobile Video Services: A Five-Year Global Market Forecast” analyzes [...]
Hotspot on the beach…just in time for summer
Novatel Wireless, a San-Diego based developer of wireless broadband access solutions, recently introduced a new mobile hotspot device, called MiFi, that enables users to connect up to five Wi-Fi enabled devices (anything from notebooks, netbooks and cameras to gaming devices and portable media/MP3 players) using a single mobile broadband device. Similar in size to that [...]
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Touching on the Future of Haptic Mobile Technology
Developers of mobile touch technology are busy working on ways to use haptic technology, which provides vibrations and other physical sensations that can be used to communicate emotions, in mobile applications. While haptic technology is already in use in a number of non-mobile applications, such as medical training where it is used to make procedures [...]
Attention All Golfers: Antenova Ltd Tapped for Ultimate Portable GPS Golf Range Finder
Antenova Ltd, an integrated antenna and RF solutions company located in Cambridge, UK, recently announced that its’ M10264 GPS RF Antenna Module has been selected by G-CORE Ltd. for G-Core Pro – the ultimate portable GPS golf range finder.
Antenova’s M10264 is the industry’s first planar mount GPS RF Antenna Module incorporating the market leading SiRFstarIII™ [...]
One Architecture. One Smart Grid?
New Acquisition Brings Broadband to Smart Grid Communications
This week, Trilliant (Redwood, CA based smart meter solution provider) announced its purchase of SkyPilot which develops long-range, broadband wireless mesh technology based on a longer-range application of WiFi (up to ten miles).
According to the company’s release “SkyPilot has redefined broadband wireless through a patented system that achieves [...]
Bringing Broadband Wireless to the Smart Grid
This morning’s news from Trilliant regarding its acquisition of SkyPilot Networks combines two of our areas of interest here at SVM: broadband wireless and green technologies! We find the deal particularly interesting as the acquisition of SkyPilot will allow Trilliant to bring broadband wireless networking to utility smart-grid programs. Trilliant provides intelligent network solutions and [...]
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Windfall for Wireless
Both InformationWeek and Network World covered the release of a new report announced yesterday by ABI Research on the opportunity that the 2009 American Reinvestment and Recovery Act (ARRA) affords to wireless communications equipment vendors. According to ABI, the $6.8 billion worth of funding for wireless communications upgrades and new deployments for the remainder of [...]
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Telco Heavyweights Comment on National Broadband Plan
The FCC is in the process of collecting thousands of comments from industry, state and local governments, and nonprofits about the national broadband plan that the agency will be creating over the next eight months. Telecom giants such as AT&T, Verizon, and Comcast are emphasizing the massive investments from private sector in offering Internet to [...]