SMS a killer app at 20; irrelevant at 25?

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	SMS a killer app at 20; irrelevant at 25? The first SMS-capable mobile phones were approved for sale in Europe 20 years ago this month. By any measure, SMS has become a huge success, at least for the telephone companies, with more than 6 trillion SMS messages sent worldwide in 2010, generating more than $110 billion in revenue. But the future may not be anywhere near as bright because of increasing use of "free" Internet-based services such as Facebook, Apple's iMessage and WhatsApp.com. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: LogMeIn Remotely manage with LogMeIn Central Central's web-based management console lets you deploy software, proactively monitor and automate tasks. You can even apply all Windows Updates at the same time to keep systems up-to-date and secure. Try it free for 30 days. In this Issue Alcatel-Lucent offers managed service to improve mobile network performance Netgear Adds to Its 802.11ac Lineup Ethernet switching gets specialized Japanese researchers break record for Terahertz Wi-Fi transmission Unified communications still fragmented How to surf safely with a VPN-for-hire Silver Peak bolsters virtual WAN optimization software History's first prank phone call was way back in ... 1884? WHITE PAPER: Aruba Networks IDC Worldwide Enterprise WLAN 2011-2012 Vendor Analysis Covering a variety of vendors in the enterprise WLAN market, this evaluation is based on various deployment architectures and set of parameters that assess vendors relative to one another and to those factors expected to be most conducive to success in the short and the long term. Read now. Alcatel-Lucent offers managed service to improve mobile network performance Mobile operators that want help keeping their subscribers happy can get it through a new managed service from Alcatel-Lucent, the company said on Monday. Read More Netgear Adds to Its 802.11ac Lineup Netgear's first 802.11ac router, the R6300, will go on sale next week for $200, the company announced at a news conference yesterday. Touting the benefits of the next-gen Wi-Fi standard, the company also announced two more 802.11ac products: a lower-end router and a USB adapter for notebooks, both due this summer. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: IT Roadmap Denver Your IT Career Roadmap This unique session is designed with you, the IT professional in mind. How can you build your personal brand, and properly design a career plan? How do you work with your staff to create a plan that retains your best talent? Come to IT Roadmap Denver for valuable information on how today's IT leaders build successful careers. Click to continue Ethernet switching gets specialized Growth in the Ethernet switch market is now being driven by specialized devices for specific applications, rather than evenly across all customer deployments. Read More Japanese researchers break record for Terahertz Wi-Fi transmission Researchers from the Tokyo Institute of Technology in Japan claim to have broken the record for wireless data transmission in the Terahertz band with a data rate 20 times higher than most current Wi-Fi connections. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Accelerate WAN File Transfers by 50x According to Taneja Group research, 83% of IT managers are considering a move to the cloud a top priority. This paper highlights their research and provides guidance on how to overcome cloud adoption barriers and further leverage virtualization and consolidation efforts by strategically deploying WAN optimization. Read now! Unified communications still fragmented The technology may get a big push from mobile adoption, but integration among multiple UC components is still a tough slog. Read More How to surf safely with a VPN-for-hire "When your data passes through a public network--such as the Wi-Fi at the coffee shop or airport--it is at risk." I've been writing variations on that sentence for 10 years now, and I expect I'll be writing it for many more. That's because it's easy to snoop on such networks, and the data on them isn't safeguarded against those prying eyes. You have to take action to keep your data safe. Fortunately, doing so doesn't have to be hard. Read More Silver Peak bolsters virtual WAN optimization software Silver Peak today upgraded the software for its WAN appliance to handle automated optimization for TCP and non-TCP traffic, 512,000 simultaneous connections for 10 gigabit-per-second (Gbps) infrastructures and support for a bunch of common hypervisors. Read More History's first prank phone call was way back in ... 1884? Unless it turns out that Alexander Graham Bell didn't really want to see Watson - that he was just goofing on the guy - then the first documented prank phone call would appear to have occurred about eight years after that famous 1876 exchange ... and at the expense of an undertaker in Providence, R.I. Read More
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