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Set-Top Box Logic Doesn’t Hold
I’m not that close to the cable market — though, once upon a DOCSIS moon, I worked for a company that sold transceivers to cable-device vendors — so perhaps I am missing a nuance or subtlety that might...
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Cisco and RIM: Hard Times, Different Situations
A morbid debate has ensued as to whether Cisco or RIM is in worse shape. It’s an unseemly discourse, but it seems obvious to me that Cisco, regardless of its current woes, remains in a better, stronger...
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Is Li-Fi the Next Wi-Fi?
The New Scientist published a networking-related article last week that took me back to my early days in the industry. The piece in question dealt with Visible Light Communication (VLC), a form of...
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Why RIM Takeover Palaver is Premature
Whether it is experiencing good times or bad times, Research in Motion (RIM) always seems to be perceived as an acquisition target. When its fortunes were bright, RIM was rumored to be on the...
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Nokia Channels Kris Kristofferson
In reporting that Nokia would discontinue North American sales of its Symbian smartphones and its low-end feature phones to focus exclusively on its forthcoming crop of smartphones based on Windows...
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Divining Google’s Intentions for Motorola Mobility
In commenting now on Google’s announcement that it will acquire Motorola Mobility Holdings for $12.5 billion, I feel like the guest who arrives at a party the morning after festivities have ended:...
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What Cisco and Huawei Have in Common
Cisco and Huawei have a lot in common. Not only has Huawei joined Cisco in the enterprise-networking market, but it also has put down R&D roots in Silicon Valley, where it and Cisco now compete for...
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Limits to Consumerization of IT
At GigaOm, Derrick Harris is wondering about the limits of consumerization of IT for enterprise applications. It’s a subject that warrants consideration. My take on consumerization of IT is that it...
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Bad and Good in Avaya’s Pending IPO
We don’t know when Avaya will have its IPO, but we learned a couple weeks ago that the company will trade under the symbol ‘AVYA‘ on the New York Stock Exchange. Long before that, back in June, Avaya...
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Intel-Microsoft Mobile Split All Business
In an announcement today, Google and Intel said they would work together to optimize future versions of the Android operating system for smartphones and other mobile devices powered by Intel chips. It...
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Can Dell Think Outside the Box?
Michael Dell has derived great pleasure from HP’s apparent decision to spin off its PC business. As he has been telling the Financial Times and others recently, Dell (the company) believes having a PC...
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Google Move Could Cause Collateral Damage for RIM
In a move that demonstrates Google’s willingness to embrace mobile-device heterogeneity in the larger context of a strategic mandate, Google today announced that it would bring improved mobile-device...
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U.S. National-Security Concerns Cast Pall over Huawei
As 2011 draws to a close, Huawei faces some difficult questions about its business prospects in the United States. The company is expanding worldwide into enterprise networking and mobile devices,...
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Lessons for Cisco in Cius Failure
When news broke late last week that Cisco would discontinue development of its Android-based Cius, I remarked on Twitter that it didn’t take a genius to predict the demise of Cisco’s...
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Amazon-RIM: Summer Reunion?
Think back to last December, just before the holidays. You might recall a Reuters report, quoting “people with knowledge of the situation,” claiming that Research in Motion (RIM) rejected takeover...
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