Attention in the telecom community for the IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) has been hard to ignore over the past few years. Service providers wanting new revenues from services at a reduced cost look to an IMS framework to help them. Forrester tracks IMS deals yearly to help our clients understand how...

Attention in the telecom community for the IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) has been hard to ignore over the past few years. Service providers wanting new revenues from services at a reduced cost look to an IMS framework to help them. Forrester tracks IMS deals yearly to help our clients understand how...

TA DA! Here it is: Don't you think that a country with backward internet, broken telcos and crap gov policies deserves hillbilly music? :P The whole thing is such a farce. YouTube here for those who don't have players. I put a call out last week, on Twitter, for photos of people with post it notes a...

Please place your foto on Flickr, use tag nocleanfeed so I can find it HERE . Lots of brouhaha at the moment over the internet filters. As opposition grows against the Government's controversial plan to censor the internet, the head of one of Australia's largest ISPs has labelled the Communications ...

How many companies have the budget left to hire consultants these days? Fewer and fewer. Even if you think hiring a particular consultant could result in more money saved than spent, it's hard to justify spending in the first place. So what does a manager or business owner have to do? Wait until sal...

Like any good federally-sanctioned frequency spectrum auction should do, the recently-wrapped Canadian AWS (advanced wireless spectrum) spectrum was auctioned off in hopes of sparking competition and driving down wireless prices from Canadian carriers like Rogers, Telus, and Bell. Canada saw 105 Mhz...

Theda Skocpol stirred up a hornets' nest (and did her best Bill O'Reilly impression) at TPM by calling upon liberals either to sit down and shut up or to join in lock step behind the Obama campaign.  Here's the best reply so far from a commenter named "HungChad" referencing Obama's FISA fl...

Democratic Senator Sheldon Whitehouse took to the floor of the Senate to warn his colleagues about the FISA Amendments Act. He called the FISA Amendments Act “a naked intrusion into ongoing litigation. Where will that stop? Will Congress be able to rove at will through litigation anywhere in t...

Today the Democrats in the Senate gave the drafters of the Constitution the finger, and passed the FISA bill with a grant of amnesty to the telecoms. Barack Obama, despite repeated promises to filibuster against the bill, voted for it. Hillary Clinton voted nay. Obama , unlike McCain, thought it so ...

Mobile Internet adoption in North America is still slow because while users find the content and services useful, they are not easy or enjoyable to use. This is due in large part to high cost of service and sites that are hard to find, see, and navigate — leaving them far inferior to their desktop...