Tablets, say the research, are becoming a more favored platform for video viewing, with one in ten tablet users viewing content at least daily. The key point in the data may not be the frequency, which likely surprises no one, but the demography. The largest tablet penetration is in the key 25-35 year-olds, the swing…
Microsoft’s new tablet, the “Surface” was announced with much fanfare, but the product has been getting mixed reviews in no small part because it’s really not possible to review it at all. You can’t get one, even to play with, so far. No pun intended, but on the surface the device appears well-made and it…
Last week’s story of Nokia’s fall from grace in the handset market probably didn’t surprise anyone because it’s been a slow and agonizing decline, a wasting away for all to see. At this point, turning around almost certainly would require the company being acquired, either by another player or by a private equity firm who…
It’s one of those days of a buffet of items that missed the cut during the week. There’s a theme though, which is the evolution of broadband and Internet. Microsoft announced it’s going to buy Yammer, a company who specializes in creating a kind of social workplace, a collaborative framework based not on evolved voice…
Never one to shun conflict or controversy, Cisco has probably created both with its announcement of its SDN strategy at its “Live” event yesterday. It would be fair to say that Cisco didn’t even blow a kiss at OpenFlow, it only promised to blow a kiss at some point in the future. Needless to say,…
Cisco’s annual event kicked off, and while all these events aren’t necessarily a window into the strategic future of Cisco, this one might well be. Cisco came out more strongly in favor of the notion of strategy and architecture than I’d ever heard them. It’s too early to say that this change is going to…
There may be nothing that so starkly presents the two very different visions of the future of networking than the “two i’s”. By this I refer to the contrast between Apple’s i-software-focused WWDC and the investment discussions of two key network vendors—Alcatel-Lucent and Juniper. Apple’s WWDC was a disappointment if you believe that every one…
It’s potpourri Monday, folks, and I’ve saved some items that didn’t make the topical cut last week for treatment. Don’t look for too much of a theme today, other than that I’m looking for “news” that’s not being treated comprehensively. If you think you’ve heard everything try this one out; the UN’s ITU is proposing…
The Oracle vision of the cloud is late, for sure. Ellison waffled on the value of the cloud for sure, even though he doesn’t want to admit it. Despite this all, though, the Oracle Public Cloud is important for the cloud market, for three basic reasons. Reason number one is that it demonstrates yet again…
Big Switch, one of the most active and interesting of the OpenFlow players, has announced a number of new things that may help the market better understand the value of OpenFlow. In particular, they help understand how OpenFlow might be used in conjunction with “normal” network protocols. To start with, it’s important to understand that…