All GLG News Analyses Filed Under: Hardware

More significant in the long run than the direct economic and market impacts for the telecommunications sector of the deployment of FTTH will be the uses to which the quantum leap in bandwidth that it enables may be put, and their implications for our daily lives. Economic realities...

FTTH growth has been sluggish at best over the past eight years, when the FTTH moniker began to show up in discussions and print.  Perhaps, now that there are some 2.91 million FTTH connections, and 17,000 100 megabit customers in North America, there is a very positive trend we can possibly link...

Verizon jumped into the expensive FTTPremise play earlier than other primary players, opting to put video (TV) on fiber optic cabling, whereas AT&T has chosen the less colorful FTTNode hybrid copper/fiber solution for capex reasons. Now Verizon is moving to analog video transmission,...

Every cloud has a silver lining.

* Hitachi introduced a 500 GB 2.5-inch hard disk drive in January 2008 but the product would not fit into a conventional 2.5-inch hard drive bay  * Fujitsu followed suit with a 500 GB 2.5-inch HDD announcement with a similar thicker drive package  * Samsung announced in March that they would...

* Seagate says that if SSDs start to threaten HDDs Seagate may sue SSD companies such as Intel and Samsung for patent infringement  * Seagate and WD have patents with many of the ways that a storage device communicates with a computer and SSDs may use some of these approaches  * SSDs are being...

The FairPoint Communications, Inc. $2.3B purchase of the three state properties in ME, NH, and VT from Verizon could be worthwhile depending on the condition of the plant and switchgear/COE.  However, understanding that Verizon, who is winning awards for their FIOS FTTP upgrades across the large...

In this fast changing electronic world old is very old. The Macintosh line was rumored for a major overhaul after the release of the MacBook Air but instead the productivity of the Mac Books went backwards due to a force chip change. Now it appears Apple is going to finally move forward on new l...

Carl Icahn is tightening the noose on yet another corporate chief who won't bow down - this time Motorola's Ed Zander. The billionaire investor expanded his proxy war yesterday just three days after finally dumping his latest CEO victim, Blockbuster's John Antioco, who'll leave this year with a paltry...

The entry of Intel into Mobile Internet Devices could be determined by the pricing of their latest chip technology as well as the overall retail price of the devices to consumers.