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Hardball 10/28/09: Chattanooga’s EPB Municipal Building Expensive Optic Network
October 28, 2009
EPB expands its fiber-optics services area | www.timesfreepress.com
EPB Fiber Optics has been working on its project for four years. It has put up with the usual delays for munis in fighting off lawsuits. EPB is going the Cadillac route with its network.
IBM and Dassault Systems plan an amiable separation
October 28, 2009
"Dassault Systemes and IBM Announce Intent to Integrate IBM PLM Sales Operation into DS" | www.3ds.com
Late on the evening of October 26, IBM announced its intention to sell its "IBM sales and client support operations encompassing DS's Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software … customer contracts and related assets" to Dassault Systèmes .
Are Business Leaders or the Economy to Blame for the lack of IT Innovation
October 27, 2009
Leaders are to Blame for a lack of IT Innovation | tu.glgroup.com
Leaders appear to get Blamed for a lack of IT Innovation in the Business that they are Leaders of.. Is it their lack of desire or is it the lack of Capital allocated for the expenditure necessary to implement Innovative IT Infrastructure,Software, and human resource costs?
Hardball 10/27/09: Meaning of Verizon Wireless’ “Nationwide” LTE Network Unclear
October 27, 2009
Verizon-led investment group commits $1.3B to LTE development | www.fiercewireless.com
Verizon Wireless has said that it will have an LTE network throughout the US in late 2013 or early 2014. However, it has not clarified what that exactly means. Verizon appears to be aiming for 90 to 95% coverage.
Verizon and AT&T Third Quarter Results Imply TV Cannot Save Wireline Telcos
October 27, 2009
Verizon Wireless and FiOS Growth Fuels Continued Strong Cash Flow at Verizon in 3Q | investor.verizon.com
Verizon and AT&T third quarters for 2009 both showed the same trend of strong wireless, flat growth in TV, and wireline losses. Verizon talked up the return on the Alltel acquisition while AT&T pitched the NPV on acquiring iPhone customers.
October 26, 2009
Windows 7, Not Ready for Business | goitec.com
It is time for Microsoft, Adobe, Corel and many others to either offer new breakthroughs or to drastically lower their prices.
Linthicum's book: SOA and cloud intersect for enterprise productivity benefits
October 26, 2009
How SOA and cloud intersect for enterprise productivity benefits | briefingsdirectblog.blogspot.com
SOA is the way to do cloud. It's really about breaking down your architecture into a primitive state of several components. Then, it's figuring out how to assemble those in such a way that you can use those components to resolve problems as your business changes over time. Cloud computing is a nice enhancement to that. Cloud doesn't replace SOA, but is basically an architectural option in how you can host your services.
Net Neutrality Can Be Designed To Sustain, Not Inhibit Innovation
October 26, 2009
Verizon CEO Seidenberg Speaks to SUPERCOMM … and the FCC | www.billingworld.com
The speech by Ivan Seidenberg is another example of a technique often used to attack an initiative you don't like - say it is an assault on a widely respected and worthy goal instead of discussing the real issues and alternatives.
iDont campaign...posturing or covering technical issues?
October 26, 2009
Have Apple-Verizon Talks Broken Down? | www.businessweek.com
The recent aggressive posture of Verizon Wireless in pointing out the limitations of the iPhone could simply be typical competitive marketing as they push their handsets in advance of Storm2 and possibly Droid or they could be a subtle acceptance that it is hard to convince Apple to deliver their system on an alternate network (CDMA).
China Mobile bets on 3G services and control over the value chain
October 26, 2009
China Mobile sees sharp slowdown in profit growth | www.totaltele.com
The mobile market in China is reaching maturity. Both China Mobile and China Unicom are looking for solutions to maintain market share and profit levels, which are outlined in the analysis below.
Switzerland sues Google over Street View privacy concerns
November 13, 2009
Here Come the Droids! A brief review of Verizon Wireless' new Droid line-up.
November 11, 2009
October 30, 2009
Vodafone Orange Iphone Deal Ends Two Years Exclusivity Of O2 In UK
October 5, 2009
IPhone Coma Mode puts Apple in the ICU
September 19, 2009