Networks
What UCONN Engineering School Advances Means to New Students
- Mon, 21 May 2012
HARDWARE Networks
I have been fortunate enough in my career to do something I love – cover technology and be involved in all the most innovative happenings from the early eighties until today. Tech is one of the markets which has constant change and moreover the ability to learn something new presents itself virtually every day. Whether you are a system administrator, programmer, database designer or microprocessor designer you are not only in demand, you...Are Apple iPhones Misbehaving on Wi-Fi
- Mon, 21 May 2012
HARDWARE Networks
One of my blog readers contacted me about a disturbing finding he had and asked for my opinion (thanks Thanh). The finding in question was that the Apple iPhone, iPad, and other devices based on the latest Broadcom chipsets are setting really long Duration values in the range of 10-14ms within Wi-Fi...
Wi-Fi Alliance Rebrands Hotspot 2.0 as Wi-Fi Certified Passpoint
- Sun, 20 May 2012
HARDWARE Networks
The initial focus remains on service provider and carrier integration for easier authentication and better security on Wi-Fi hotspots. However, there are provisions for other identification and authentication methods to the network that could enable other web identities to be...
More Advice on Buying Apple, Shorting Amazon
- Fri, 18 May 2012
HARDWARE Networks
Yes Virginia, P/E ratios still matter
Two days ago I wrote a piece trying to justify how Amazon could have a P/E ratio 16x higher than Apple. In short, I couldn’t. Recently Rocco Pendola wrote a piece which says P/E ratios don’t mean much, instead good management does (a paraphrase). He says, “This is not your Grandfather's stock market.”
And it seems he is correct. His article is actually titled “Sell Amazon, Buy...
Gadgets to Have Integrated Welcome Ads Soon?
- Fri, 18 May 2012
HARDWARE Networks
If ads on the Kindle Fire Welcome Screen are successful, others will follow
There are a few things which are well known about Amazon’s Kindle Fire. First of all at $199 the company either loses money or at best breaks even depending on which analyst you speak with. We also know the version of Android the device runs is unusual as Amazon has its own proprietary shell around it.
And just like a company can pay to have a promotion on the Amazon...
Funny and Fake Facebook Pre-IPO Letter
- Thu, 17 May 2012
HARDWARE Networks
This email has been circulating and is funny enough to share:A Letter from Mark Zuckerberg
About Facebook’s IPO
MENLO PARK, CA (The Borowitz Report) – On the eve of Facebook’s IPO, Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg published the following letter to potential investors:
Dear Potential Investor:
For years, you've wasted your time on Facebook. Now here’s your chance to waste your money on it, too.
Tomorrow is Facebook’s IPO, and I know what some of you a...
Intel Finally Gets Mobile?
- Thu, 17 May 2012
HARDWARE Networks
Intel is selling its computers quite nicely into PCs and servers and although we are in a so called "post-PC era" people keep buying computers by the tens of millions. The long-term challenge is in-part ARM, the instruction-set architecture which is being turned into highly efficient chips used in most mobile devices.The challenge of course for Intel is the typical one of disruption from below. An example is how RAID allowed inexpensive and less...
Pinterest Now Worth $1.5B
- Thu, 17 May 2012
HARDWARE Networks
Now that was fast – Pinterest just raised $100M at a valuation of $1.5B in a round of funding led by Japanese e-commerce site Rakuten Inc. Pinterest's existing venture-capital investors such as Andreessen Horowitz, FirstMark Capital and Bessemer Venture Partners also participated according to a press release.
Hiroshi Mikitani, CEO of Rakuten said: "While some may see e-commerce as a straightforward vending machine-like experience, we
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Is Yahoo Just Doomed?
- Wed, 16 May 2012
HARDWARE Networks
Years back I was at a conference with a consultant who worked at Yahoo! and told them they need to take on Google more directly and he was told, “That is not the Yahoo way.” I still remember the dumfounded feeling I had when I heard this ridiculous comment. We all know that Yahoo is a company with outstanding assets but with major internal problems. CEOs seem to be ousted annually, the company is behind in just about every market it...
The Most Comprehensive Interop 2012 Video Interviews
- Wed, 16 May 2012
HARDWARE Networks
In case you missed Interop 2012 in Las Vegas and even if you were there – I have some really good news for you. TMC was there and we shot about seven hours of the most important and engaging interviews possible. We have all the companies you need to know about in spaces such as private and public cloud to big data, analytics, network testing and more. We spoke with the small upstarts and the giants like HP, Cisco and IBM. In short we...