TeleCommunication Systems Partners With State of Iowa to Launch Next Generation 9-1-1 Services Network
This emergency services network will comply fully with the National Emergency Number Association i3 standards. These standards enable Public Safety Answering Points to accept incoming emergency requests from wireless, Public Switched Telephone Network-based and Internet Protocol-based end-users. More...
VTech Announces FY2011 Annual Results
VTech Holdings Ltd today announced its results for financial year ended 31 March 2011, reporting record revenue. . More...
When Microsoft muscles in on an emerging market
This is year is shaping up to be one of the most significant turning points in the history of modern unified communications. The world's largest software company has thrown down the gauntlet and made two big moves on the established and emerging voice communications markets. More...
The Spotify Effect
I subscribe to MOG, a streaming music service with a catalog of more than 12 million tracks. And using a device called Roku, I can access MOG—not to mention Netflix and hundreds of other "channels"—through my TV. More...
Constant Changes in Technology 'Ecosystem' Exciting
There used to be two main camps when it came to research: PC and Mac. These were built around the two competing computers systems, Microsoft's Windows PC operating system and Apple's Mac operating system. More...
Microsoft patches 1990s-era 'Ping of Death'
Microsoft today issued 13 security updates that patched 22 vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer, Windows, Office and other software, including one that harked back two decades to something dubbed "Ping of Death. More...
Cablevision Systems Corp. NY Group Reports Operating Results (10-Q)
Our high-speed data services business, which accounted for 20% of our consolidated earnings, net of inter-segment eliminations, for the six months ended June 30, 2011, faces intense competition from other providers of high-speed Internet access, including Verizon and AT&T in our New York metropolitan service area and CenturyLink, Inc. More...
Cloud Telephony Provider Fonality Issues 'Cloud VoIP
Most everyone who has ever been to a book store has seen the ‘For Dummies’ book series promoting such helpful collections just as ‘Adopting a Pet for Dummies,’ or ‘Playing Guitar for Dummies,’ nevertheless now, thanks to Fonality and the For Dummies publishers, there is ‘Cloud VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) for Dummies. More...
Tech Has Never Been Cheaper
Cisco Systems designs, manufactures and sells Internet protocol (IP)-based networking and other products related to the communications and information innovation industry worldwide. More...
Capped data plan got you down? There's an app
Take a look at Onavo, a mobile data management and compression app that launched on the iPhonein April. The company told me today that it can save more than 7 million iPhone users nearly $1 billion a year collectively if they used the free Onavo app. More...