Blog entries tagged innovation

The Problem with Convergence?

Gregg Astoorian — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 04:00:00 +0100

The vision of convergence -- anytime, anywhere communications -- has been the holy grail of the telecom industry for almost 20 years in one form or another. Converged services combine voice, data and video and deliver them across a span of public, private, wired and wireless networks in a way that is seamless and conRead More...

Green IT: Where There's Sheep, There's Fertilizer

Gregg Astoorian — Tue, 13 May 2008 23:00:00 +0100

Since last year, "Green IT" has tipped over spectacularly in capturing the hearts, minds and maybe even wallets of IT managers and executives everywhere Therefore, in a true spirit of enquiry, I've started reading "Green to Gold". This is a 2006 book by Daniel Esty and Andrew WinRead More...

Physics vs Marketing

Gregg Astoorian — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 23:00:00 +0100

In this article from Network World, we see an interesting example of how when marketing hype meets physics, physics generally wins until someone clever enough comes along to solve the problem.

The article provides an update from the WLAN group at Siemens, who appear to have solved a pesky problem cRead More...