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Amazon Adds More Functionality To Their Dynamic Content Delivery Platform, Lowers Pricing
- 23 Feb 2013 09:23
- by Dan Rayburn
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Last May, at the Content Delivery Summit event I organize each year, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced support for dynamic content delivery, also referred to in the industry as dynamic site acceleration (DSA). (video presentation here). Since the launch, Amazon has been pretty quiet on what they have been working on so I spent some time with the ...
Radware Acquires Web Optimization Company Strangeloop Networks
- 23 Feb 2013 09:22
- by Dan Rayburn
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On February 7th, privately held Strangeloops Networks, which focuses on web optimization, announced they had been acquired by Radware (RDRW). Terms of the deal were not announced but multiple industry folks say Strangeloop was valued at under $20M. Strangeloop is one of the leading companies offering a front-end optimization service in the market ...
HTC ONE: The Next Step To A Joyful Smartphone Experience, But Look Beyond Entertainment
- 20 Feb 2013 04:43
- by Saverio Romeo
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A comment on HTC having launched its new phone, HTC ONE, at a press event held in German Gymnasium in the revamped King's Cross London area on Tuesday, 19 February 2013 The new smartphone touches the main areas of highly entertaining mobile experience: content, user interface, mobile video and photography, music, sound, TV, and industrial design. ...
Is ICASA’s headache for LTE spectrum allocation finished?
- 19 Feb 2013 04:34
- by Mervin Miemoukanda
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Some months ago, ICASA has decided to postpone licensing of high demand spectrum, making it difficult for the existing telecom operators to deploy their LTE networks. With declining voice service revenues, network service operators, particularly the incumbents, Vodacom, MTN and Cell C have been re-positioning themselves as end-to-end solution prov...
Is ICASA’s headache for LTE spectrum allocation finished?
- 19 Feb 2013 04:33
- by Mervin Miemoukanda
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Some months ago, ICASA has decided to postpone licensing of high demand spectrum, making it difficult for the existing telecom operators to deploy their LTE networks. With declining voice service revenues, network service operators, particularly the incumbents, Vodacom, MTN and Cell C have been re-positioning themselves as end-to-end solution prov...
Social Media Analytics: Big Data, Big Voices, and Big Brother?
- 15 Feb 2013 16:17
- by Michael Brandenburg
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In my research around the convergence of social media and Big Data techniques that defines social media analytics, I initially deemed this notion of social media data mining both “amazing and frightening”. The amount and types of actionable information that could be divined from social media are actually quite staggering and can serve more than ju...
Who is Doing What in UC Server Virtualization: Cutting through the Hype
- 15 Feb 2013 13:17
- by Rob Arnold
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The virtualization hype-cycle in enterprise UCC markets is nearing a climax. In the realm of UCC, the use of virtualization technologies aims to reduce the costs associated with hardware and to unlock operational efficiencies enabled by the centralized command, control and resource optimization of cloud computing. From a high-level, server virt...
City as a Customer
- 12 Feb 2013 21:30
- by Jinu Mathew
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Written by Archana Vidyasekar and Akshay Gakhar Understanding the Macro to Micro Impact of the Urbanisation Mega Trend and Identifying the Inherent Business Opportunities in Tomorrow's Cities By 2025, the world urban population will reach 4.6 billion and account for 58% of total population. This means that 6 out of 10 people will live in urban ar...
Apple, iPhone, and the Shifting of Coolness
- 06 Feb 2013 12:16
- by Katherine Burns
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There’s a wonderful scene in “Almost Famous” in which Philip Seymour Hoffman tells the teenage aspiring writer/protagonist, “I met you. You are not cool.” I’ve always loved that line, because I feel like what he was really saying was, “You are your own kind of cool.” On my best days, this is how I would describe myself – my own kind of cool. I’m n...
The Decline of Voicemail and the Changing Rules of Communications Etiquette
- 06 Feb 2013 10:23
- by Michael Brandenburg
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If there was one general theme that presided over my recent research on the voice and unified messaging market, it was that while voicemail usage has been fading over the years, there is still a requirement by most businesses to have a voicemail box associated with every user. In trying to understand the decline, conventional wisdom suggests that o...
Truly Unified Communications and Collaboration Technologies Still Not Mainstream
- 05 Feb 2013 16:55
- by Melanie Turek
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According to Frost & Sullivan’s 2012 IT Decision Makers’ View of the Enterprise Communications Evolution survey, awareness and usage of various communications and collaboration tools is increasing. The C-level executives who participated in the survey report the highest level of awareness and usage for instant messaging and conferencing (including ...
Amazon Launches New Cloud Based Video Transcoding Service
- 30 Jan 2013 15:47
- by Dan Rayburn
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On Tuesday January 29th, Amazon announced a new cloud based video transcoding service called Amazon Elastic Transcoder. As with other AWS services, there are no contracts or monthly commitments and customers simply pay based on the number of minutes they need to transcode and the resolution of the content being transcoded (SD vs. HD). Amazon is of...
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