Archive for the ‘Telecoms’ Category

Smartphone Shipments Overtake Client PCs In 2011 For The First Time Ever

Monday, February 6th, 2012

The year 2011 marked a beginning of an important trend in mobile computing. Smartphone shipments topped PCs for the first time ever last year, by 73 million units, according to figures published by research firm Canalys. The total global shipments of smart phones for the whole of 2011 was 487.7 million units, ...

The Text Message/SMS Turns 19 Years Old

Saturday, December 3rd, 2011

  [caption id="attachment_98" align="alignright" width="119" caption="SMS Text Message Turns 19 Years Old"][/caption] According to Wikipedia, the first SMS text message was sent over the Vodafone GSM network in the United Kingdom on 3 December 1992, from a man named Neil Papworth using a personal computer to Richard Jarvis of Vodafone using an ...

Top 10 Key Information Technology Trends For 2012

Monday, October 31st, 2011

At the Gartner Symposium IT/Expo, David Cappuccio, managing vice president and chief of research for the Infrastructure teams with Gartner, said the Top 10 Trends show how IT is changing in that many of them in the past been outside the traditional purview of IT, but they will all affect ...

Mobile Phone Brain Cancer Link Rejected

Saturday, October 22nd, 2011

Further research has been published suggesting there is no link between mobile phones and brain cancer. The risk mobiles present has been much debated over the past 20 years as use of the phones has soared. The latest study led by the Institute of Cancer Epidemiology in Denmark looked at more than ...

Future Tech: Visible Light Communications

Wednesday, August 24th, 2011

Visible Light Communication uses light emitting diodes (LEDs), for the dual role of illumination and data transmission. Using the visible light spectrum, which is free and less crowded than other frequencies, wireless services can be piggy-backed over existing lighting installations. With this leading edge technology, data ...

IPv6: Are You Ready?

Sunday, June 12th, 2011

As IPv6 is around the corner and set to grow in the coming few years, are you ready for it yet? Find out using this test if your network are ready for IPv6. IPv6 is an IP address standard designed to replace the current IPv4 protocol, which has been in use since ...