Archive for the ‘Emerging Technologies’ Category

Windows 7 could open up Biometric enabled e- services

Icon Written on April 20, 2009 – 6:46 pm

Securing our private spaces over e-services we have subscribed to is everybody’s concern. We use e-services for emails, messengers, calls, watching videos, reading content, doing financial transactions and other several things. At present, the best we can do to keep them secure is keep on changing the passwords after some regular time period.
We [...]



Telcos versus Broadcasters – Who will emerge as winner?

Icon Written on April 17, 2009 – 6:18 pm

Next Generation Networks have made broadcasters telecom companies and vice versa. A telecom operator is your television broadcaster and the company that provided content to your television sets is offering you telephone services. As an end user, it might rarely be affecting or could even go unnoticed. But, for the industry it [...]



Restrictions on VoIP benefits small VoIP companies

Icon Written on April 15, 2009 – 7:31 pm

VoIP is still restricted in many countries by regulations. Apart from the birth it gives to the grey market, eats up revenue and traffic of the PSTN operators, blah blah; the restrictions not allowing VoIP has fragmented the industry considerably.
The large serious players are unlikely to do anything that is illegal. So we [...]



Skype must log in to advertising

Icon Written on April 13, 2009 – 5:51 pm

Skype is one of the products that has contributed in its field and become an integral part of the industry. It is a global telecom operator in essence with most of its followers claiming to have become global players.
The application is used by over 400 million registered users. The most recent update (Version [...]



Recession could see IP grow

Icon Written on April 9, 2009 – 8:56 pm

One basic benefit that attracts any person towards IP is cost saving. Where you were spending around a dollar on call per minute, IP alternative could either be offering that for free or around a few cents. Even at this level companies are enjoying handsome margin levels.
IP has really enabled certain technologies that [...]



WiMAX seen as a network to remain connected by data vendors

Icon Written on April 8, 2009 – 4:58 pm

Historically data vendors, like Cisco, have got an entry in telecom space mainly due to IP Telephony. IP Telephony did wonders and bad things concurrently for vendors in the communications space – be it a data vendor, voice vendor, video vendor, wireless vendor or wireline vendor. IP brought them all on the same [...]



Blackberry can be a potential driver for Fixed Mobile Convergence

Icon Written on April 4, 2009 – 6:33 pm

Research In Motion, the force behind, perhaps, the most successful wireless device in enterprise domain – Blackberry, announced yet another extraordinary quarter, even in this downturn, when everyone is trying to stabilise than grow.
As per the impressive results for the quarterly (December 2008 – February 2009), the company earned a revenue of $3.46 billion and [...]



IPTV offers must have ‘visible’ value addition to allure subscribers in India

Icon Written on April 2, 2009 – 3:13 pm

IPTV for the end users is another way of watching television. In India, like many other countries it is the latest in the world of broadcast. Like many other consumer oriented technologies, IPTV in India can be a great success. This is firmly believed by many vendors and operators who are willing [...]



Emergency number calling should not be a hitch for Internet Telephony in India

Icon Written on April 1, 2009 – 12:58 pm

Recently there has been a series of communication between TRAI (Telecom Regulatory Authority of India) and Department of Telecommunications, Government of India about the formulation of regulations for Internet Telephony or VoIP in the country. As is common with bureaucracy, such correspondences trigger a series of communications between the two parties and the same [...]



IPoW makes sense to all

Icon Written on January 31, 2009 – 7:41 am

Very few still doubt IP as a technology. We have seen data, voice and video all traversing through an IP network. Broadband technologies have emerged very powerful in this regard as triple play and quad play services are being offered by service providers world over.
With wireless element increasing its presence into our communications [...]