Surveys point to increased adoption of VoIP and wireless substitution

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	Surveys point to increased adoption of VoIP and wireless substitution Recent reports from the U. S. government and the U. S. Telecom Association provide insights into the ongoing evolution of the PSTN with 2013 results for VoIP adoption and wireless substitution rates, also providing a picture of ILEC market share for wireline voice services.The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) published its annual Local Telephone Competition report last month based on data available through June 30, 2013. It found that 47% of residential customers who have a wireline voice service are now using VoIP and that nearly 38% are buying that VoIP service from someone other than their incumbent phone company.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More WHITE PAPER: VCE Vblock™ Systems and SAP: Transform Your Business You rely on your ERP System to drive your business and give you a strategic advantage. Now you can speed time-to-value throughout your operations while also lowering costs by running your SAP applications on VCE™ Vblock™ Systems. Learn More In this Issue Your travel records tell the government your IP, email, credit card, call center notes Indix, the Google of products Flowboard for Mac, even better! Wall Street Beat: Transition to mobile, cloud hits tech earnings MIT invention to speed up data centers should cheer developers WHITE PAPER: HP and Intel® Converged Infrastructure for Dummies - 2.0 Simplify and align IT to the speed of business with HP Converged Infrastructure Learn More>> Your travel records tell the government your IP, email, credit card, call center notes Government access to your travel records via Passenger Name Records (PNRs) can include your IP addresses, full credit card numbers, call center notes and much more. Read More WHITE PAPER: BMC Software IT Friction and Your Organization This report outlines key issues that cause friction between business users and IT. Learn More Indix, the Google of products Competitive intelligence can be hard to come by particularly in complex markets crowded with products from many manufacturers. Consider a pharmacy or supermarket chain, businesses in which pricing of many product lines is ultra competitive. If they don’t know for a week or more that a competitor has reduced the price of some common consumer product they stand to lose more than the revenues from being undersold on that one item; they risk the total loss of consumers who go to the competition and buy that and other products while they’re there so a small pricing edge can translate into a significant revenue hit.To solve this kind of problem Indix is building what they plan to be the “world’s largest product database”; as the company explained to me, they want to be the Google of products and they’re off to a good start with something like 400 million products currently indexed. They plan to reach more than 1 billion in the near future.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More WHITE PAPER: APC by Schneider Electric High Efficiency AC vs. DC Power Distribution This paper presents a detailed quantitative efficiency comparison between the most efficient DC and AC power distribution methods, including an analysis of the effects of power distribution efficiency on the cooling power requirement and on total electrical consumption. Learn more Flowboard for Mac, even better! A few weeks ago I wrote about Flowboard, a Web- and iPad-based presentation service (you create presentations on an iPad that are uploaded to the Flowboard Web site for display) that I think has a great future. As if to goad me into writing again about the product, the developers of Flowboard have just released an OS X-based editing tool, Flowboard for Mac.The new tool is essentially the same as the iPad version but because you have a mouse and can drag and drop content into your presentations from the filesystem it’s faster and easier to use.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More Wall Street Beat: Transition to mobile, cloud hits tech earnings With Google, IBM, SAP, Intel and other tech titans reporting earnings this week, the focus is again on mobile and cloud technology. The general trend appears to be that the further a tech vendor has moved away from its legacy desktop-oriented products, the better its earnings are.IBM has launched ambitious cloud and mobile initiatives—but the resulting products are not quite fully baked. IBM officials themselves acknowledge as much, with IBM CEO Ginni Rometty talking about “positioning ourselves for growth over the long term” in the company’s earnings release Thursday.Earlier this year, IBM announced a global competition to encourage developers to create mobile consumer and business apps powered by its Watson supercomputer platform. Just this week, IBM and Apple said they are teaming up to create business apps for Apple’s mobile phones and tablets.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More MIT invention to speed up data centers should cheer developers A breakthrough by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology could change the way Web and mobile apps are written and help companies like Facebook keep the cat videos coming.Their main innovation is a new way to decide when each packet can scurry across a data center to its destination. The software that the MIT team developed, called Fastpass, uses parallel computing to make those decisions almost as soon as the packets arrive at each switch. They think Fastpass may show up in production data centers in about two years.In today’s networks, packets can spend a lot of their time in big, memory-intensive queues, lined up like tourists at Disney World. That’s because switches mostly decide on their own when each packet can go on to its destination, and they do so with limited information. Fastpass gives that job to a central server, called an arbiter, that can look at a whole segment of the data center and schedule packets in a more efficient way, according to Hari Balakrishnan, MIT’s Fujitsu Professor in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He co-wrote a paper that will be presented at an Association for Computing Machinery conference next month. The co-authors included Facebook researcher Hans Fugal.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
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