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Articles tagged "Communications"
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Tue, 4 December 2012
SMS Turns 20, Marches Towards Irrelevance
The marginalization of text messaging comes from smartphones, little computer in our pockets that act a lot more like computers than phones…
Tue, 4 September 2012
Email Will Never Die - The Man Who Invented It Reveals Why
Texting, instant messaging, Facebook, Twitter - we have dozens of ways to pass a message from one user to the next, and yet we keep coming…
Fri, 3 August 2012
Engineers Struggle to Move Mobile Video Without Ruining It
Intel, Cisco and Verizon are pouring $3.3 million into research at five prominent universities to improve video delivery over…
Mon, 30 April 2012
Why AT&T and Verizon May Love Windows Phone - But Can't Live Without the iPhone
AT&T and Verizon Wireless, the nation’s two largest wireless carriers, intend to market the heck out of Microsoft Windows Phone to…
Wed, 28 March 2012
Is Microsoft Challenging Google on HTTP 2.0
Back in 2009, Google began an industry discussion about a prospective upgrade to HTTP protocol - the application that enables the Web over…
Fri, 23 March 2012
Your Boss And Your Facebook Password
The kerfuffle over employers asking for the passwords to workers' and candidates' private social media accounts just won't go away. While…
Tue, 6 March 2012
Netflix: No, We Don't Advertise with Rush Limbaugh
Rush Limbaugh's statements against Sandra Fluke are causing Limbaugh no end of controversy and producing some blow-back for advertisers as…
Mon, 17 October 2011
Did Anyone Prove AT&T + T-Mobile Would Create Jobs?
Since last August's move by the U.S. Justice Dept. to block AT&T's proposed acquisition of competing wireless carrier T-Mobile from parent…
Thu, 13 October 2011
Researcher: LTE Only 1/6 as Efficient as Carriers Promised
If we're going to have an Internet full of things so that we can friend our Coke machines and our refrigerators on Facebook, wireless…
Tue, 27 September 2011
Analysts: There's No Spectrum Shortage
The then-newly installed chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Julius Genachowski, said in October 2009, "We are fast…
Tue, 6 September 2011
The Next Internet: What's Holding Us Back?
Tim Berners-Lee, to his credit, did not invent the Internet. He did have one good idea. He was not the first person or even the twelfth…
Thu, 18 August 2011
Setbacks for Google in Patent Cases Make Motorola Look Less Valuable
If the proposed acquisition of Motorola Mobility (MMI) by Google announced on Monday truly is about the value of MMI's patent portfolio…
Tue, 16 August 2011
Sell Tickets to Your Next Webinar With AnyMeeting
There are lots of free or inexpensive Web conferencing services available, but how about this interesting twist from AnyMeeting.com where…
Wed, 3 August 2011
Is Voice Undergoing a Renaissance?
Remember when phones were used for, you know, phone calls? Janet Hall, senior consultant for TMNG, does. What's more, Hall says that voice…
Mon, 25 July 2011
Socialcast Adds External Collaboration and More
We've always liked Socialcast here at ReadWriteWeb, but until it's been lacking a major feature: the ability to invite external…
Alcatel-Lucent's New Collaboration Suite Goes Beyond Text
Alcatel-Lucent is the latest company to throw its hat into the enterprise unified communications and collaboration ring with its…
Wed, 20 July 2011
Google Apps Adds Read Receipts
The Google Apps team announced today a new feature for the Google Apps for Business and Google Apps for Government versions of Gmail: read…
Tue, 19 July 2011
The Rise and Fall of the Cisco Empire
Yesterday Cisco announced that it will lay off 6,500 employees and sell a manufacturing plant in Juarez, Mexico to Foxconn to shave off an…
Thu, 7 July 2011
What's It Like to Work in an Indian Call Center?
We've questioned before the value of investing in contact center technology without improving call center conditions, and the ability of…
Free Video Sharing Tools For Businesses
With the announcement yesterday about Facebook's Video chat feature, there is more interest surrounding ways that you can share the apps…
Fri, 1 July 2011
Poll: Do You Want to Use Google Plus for Work?
I had hoped I could be done writing and thinking about Google Plus for the week and maybe indulge in some retro-computing nostalgia for…
Thu, 30 June 2011
VMware Labs Tentatively Releases Zimbra Client for Android
Things have been quiet on the Zimbra front for some time now, so it's nice to hear a little news: VMware has released a Zimbra client for…
Thu, 23 June 2011
3 Secrets of Social Media from 1966
Social media, or at least its widespread use, may be relatively new, but certain human behaviors are not. For example, David Aaker, blogging…
