Author: Tom Nolle

We’re on the eve of Amazon’s tablet, and rather than speculate now in advance of the announcement, I’ll wait until tomorrow to talk about the device and how it might impact the tablet space.  What I propose to do today is chat about the tablet space at a higher level, and in particular about the…

Well, Meg Whitman now has the responsibility for making the right move at HP, and frankly I’m not encouraged by some of her early comments.  The only thing that seems to be on the table, of all the changes that brought down Leo Apokether’s reign there, is the fate of the PC business.  That may…

We want to provide our Netwatcher subscribers, blog readers, and other interested parties with a summary of the topics we’ll be covering in our technology journal, Netwatcher, this fall.  Here’s how the editorial schedule is lining up so far! In September, we’ll feature the fourth segment in our service-layer series, which looks at the practical…

NSN is making another wave in the market, this time by extending the notion of adaptive networking in the mobile/EPC world from the RAN (where its product is Liquid Radio) to the network core, with Liquid Net (including Liquid Core and Liquid Transport).  These products are aimed mostly at the mobile/metro space, where the explosion…

Apple is always a wonderful target for rumors, and the current one is that the company is getting into the TV business for real, launching not only a service but a line of TV sets that would link to it.  The idea has the media agog of course, but no matter who is supposed to…

RIM has demonstrated why it’s never a good idea to rest on your laurels in a market you’re not leading in the first place.  The current-model Blackberries sold OK but older models were down in sales and the PlayBook was a disaster.  Now the company is pushing for a next-quarter refresh, the line of everyone…

The FCC is finally going to publish its net neutrality ruling (some time in the next couple of months), and while the move isn’t going to change a darn thing in ISP behavior (people have been complying anyway), it will open the door for a flood of appeals of the ruling.  It’s also likely that…

About a half-dozen years ago, Juniper made news with a series of aggressive cartoon ads that stuck it to arch-rival Cisco in various ways.  Now Cisco is apparently taking that same tack, at least to a degree, with a website that’s a pretty clear swing at Juniper.  The focus of the site is the claim…

Well, Carol Bartz is done at Yahoo, and that’s a truth that has mixed implications for the market.  Yes, it’s true that Yahoo has continued on its downward slide since Bartz took control.  But there’s a bigger question here, which is whether there is/was anything that could be done to stop that.  That question has…

One of the more interesting wrinkles in the ongoing tablet wars is a decision by more cable companies to back away from any commitments (on their own or as MVNOs) for wireless capabilities.  There was a time when everyone thought that the quad play was going to be a major requirement, so how did this…