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DMARC: End of Spam and Phishing for Good? Maybe, But Proof-of-Concept Still Needed
- 09 Feb 2012 15:04
- by Ben Ramirez
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It was recently announced back in March of 2011 that the DMARC (Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting & Conformance) organization, consisting of AOL, Facebook, Cloudmark, Linkedin, Band of America, PayPal and other leading organizations, proposed a new operational specification for the current email authentication infrastructure. In short,...
2012 Predictions: Latin America set for shakeup in plans, revenue streams and bundled offers
- 17 Jan 2012 14:28
- by Renato Pasquini
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The nearing maturity of mobile voice services in most Latin American countries and the reduction on mobile termination rates set by regulators are leading to three main trends in the region: the launch of unlimited plans; the search for new revenue streams; and the commercial launch of multiple-play offerings. Competition is likely to increase in ...
Challenges for the convergence of telecommunications services in Brazil
- 16 Sep 2011 14:52
- by Renato Pasquini
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The implementation of a new regulatory framework for the telecommunications industry in 1997 and the subsequent privatization of Telebrás (a holding of state-owned telecom companies) brought unquestionable benefits to Brazilian society. It began a cycle of investment in telecommunications infrastructure, fixed and mobile, which induced an increase ...
Machine-to-Machine Markets: The Machine Revolutions
- 08 Aug 2011 13:33
- by Bruno Ismail
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Latin America has a mobile phone penetration of approximately 103%, a figure that indicates some level of saturation. In this sense, the Machine-to-Machine (M2M) technologies market appear with great potential for development, what led Frost & Sullivan to conduct a recent regional study on the topic. The objectives were to contextualize the subject...
Fixed-Mobile Convergence in Latin America
- 08 Aug 2011 08:33
- by Renato Pasquini
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In recent years there has been a growing trend of offering integrated services to consumers, through the merger of fixed networks (PSTN, DSL) and mobile networks (2G, 3G, Wi-Fi, WiMax), what we commonly call the fixed-mobile convergence (FMC). This term also includes convergence of devices and services, in order to present a universal wireless solu...
Polycom Delivers a Powerful Punch - Acquires HP's Videoconferencing Business
- 01 Jun 2011 15:40
- by Roopam Jain
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Yet another major acquisition news came out this morning. Polycom announced that it will acquire HP’s Visual Collaboration Unit including the Halo products and managed services, ending HP’s not so successful venture into the videoconferencing market. The acquisition, which is valued at $89 million, is expected to close on August 1, 2011. According ...
Microsoft Acquires Skype
- 10 May 2011 11:59
- by Roopam Jain
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For the last several days, the rumor mill was abuzz with possibilities of a Skype acquisition. Microsoft’s announcement this morning that it is acquiring Skype for $8.5B in cash seems aggressive and risky from a financial point of view but could be a game changer for communications. This acquisition could make Microsoft a serious contender in the...
Why Twitter Wants TweetDeck - and TweetDeckers - So Badly
- 03 May 2011 18:32
- by Jake Wengroff
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Rumors swirling this morning about Twitter’s $50 million acquisition of TweetDeck have everyone, er, atwitter.Fundamentally, Twitter has finally realized that its development partners have continued to innovate while the company’s basic interface – Twitter.com – is oddly low-frills with frustrating functionality. TweetDeck and other ‘social media e...
"Sprint Inside" - The Case for Integrated Network Access
- 05 Jan 2011 13:21
- by Nancee Ruzicka
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A very successful branding campaign was launched years ago by Intel in conjunction with PC manufacturers known as "Intel Inside". There were numerous video and print ads as well as little stickers on the PCs indicating that Intel was actually inside. Intel and other chip manufacturers make bits of silicon that are used in every electronic device ma...
Can We Secure the Network?
- 29 Sep 2010 13:58
- by Nancee Ruzicka
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While attending the Homeland Security for Networked Industries (HSNI) conference, I learned from the two largest communication service providers (CSPs) in the US – indeed, two of the largest in the world – that they spend a great deal of time and money to secure the networks that we use every day. Whether it’s the notion of “clean pipes” offered b...
A Look at Google in the Enterprise
- 06 Aug 2010 18:25
- by Melanie Turek
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This week, Google discontinued Google Wave, its much-heralded collaboration platform. Which came as no surprise, really: Collaboration tools are best used among work groups, and work groups are generally formed for, well, work. Most consumers don’t have much use for a product like Wave, and enterprises that do need a vendor or service provider that...
A Snapshot of UC in the Enterprise, from the SP's Point of View
- 03 Jun 2010 20:54
- by Melanie Turek
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I recently spoke with the CTO at a service provider that offers a wide array of unified communications applications and services, and he shared some interesting insights into trends in user uptake of UC. Here are a few highlights: Among mid-size organizations, mature companies are more likely to go with a single vendor for their UC needs. Companie...
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