Unified Comms

Social media - part 3

We like our risk management, don’t we? It allows us to identify risks, and take action to mitigate them. Risk Management can and should be applied to social media usage. It makes good sense to manage the risk by having a very clear social media policy.

By Breed Lewis | 12 March, 2011 10:00

Tags: business, productivity, risk management, social media, social media policy

Tivo, T-Box, Xbox, Foxtel: TV options are on the up

The media went into a frenzy this week over two announcements relating to Australian television and the ability to record it. Tivo’s corporate backer is rumoured to be pulling the plug and Telstra’s T-Box will be able to receive Foxtel in the coming months, just like an XBox 360 can now. Add to that new IP-TV technologies and services and the future of TV looks pretty good.

By Rodney Gedda | 09 February, 2011 10:37

Tags: digital tv, foxtel, IPTV, MythTV, PVR, T-Box, television, Telstra, tivo, tv, XBox 360

TV spectrum wireless broadband: Analog back from the dead

This week the CSIRO announced it had succeeded in prototyping the transmission of wireless broadband Internet over spectrum reserved for television broadcasts. This makes an interesting broadband option for Australian's about to lose their analog TV signals.

By Rodney Gedda | 05 November, 2010 07:04

Tags: analogue tv, broadband, csiro, Department of Broadband Communications and the Digital Economy (DBCDE), digital tv, ngara, wireless, digital tv switchover

UC security: When the shoe won't fit, compress the foot

If your security model is location-centric and depends on keeping things separate, how do you respond to a disruptive technology like unified communications? This is a pattern that keeps repeating in many different areas: the security paradigm looked good until a technology comes along, changes the assumptions and reveals the inadequacy of the model.

By Andreas M. Antonopoulos | 15 April, 2009 05:06

Tags: appliance, networking, security, unified communications

Can Cisco compete in the CE mass-market?

Cisco has won much attention from consumer news sites since the New York Times reported Monday that the networking giant at CES this week is expected to unveil a digital stereo system that can move music wirelessly around a house, among other consumer offerings. But analysts and pundits say there are hurdles that Cisco must overcome in a market where Cisco is an unknown brand. Pundits also point to similar offerings from Sonos, Logitech and Apple.

By Cisco Subnet | 05 January, 2009 07:42

Tags: Cisco, consumer electronics

Is fixed-mobile convergence worth the bother?

Whether fixed-mobile convergence is for you in the near-term depends in part on how you define it, but for most, there's no rush.

Unified communications: revising competitive advantage

To achieve unified communications (UC) and other next-generation benefits, companies must build the right foundation, eliminate the voice silo, and make telephony a seamless part of information technology, argues Tony Warhurst.

Consolidation, convergence, change: the road ahead

What effect, if any, will the unstable global financial markets have on technology and business in the next few years? Where to now?

Smarter cameras lead IP video evolution

There is a lot of misinformation about IP video systems that comes through in many of the articles written in print and on the Net. It appears that many people interviewed on the subject really do not have a grasp of it or are not actively involved with IP surveillance on a daily basis, and while they give their opinion, a lot of it is not really based on what is actually happening and why.

How size affects your view of unified comms

Europe's large enterprise and small-medium enterprises (SMEs) see the dilemmas and challenges of unified communications rather differently, according to a recent advisory report from Current Analysis, based on surveys and analysis of the European market.

The Cisco/Microsoft battle for unified communications

The cold-war between Microsoft and Cisco for the much coveted "unified communications" market has escalated to all out war, with Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates predicting "the death of the PBX."