Category Archives: Mobility
May 11, 2012
Like other fast-developing economies in Asia, China skipped much of the land telephone line infrastructure investments that other countries spent decades deploying and moved almost directly to mobile infrastructure.
One might expect a similar “leapfrog” approach for digital content delivery infrastructure. But that’s not what’s happening when it comes to distributing digital medical records. The Chinese government is establishing standards that make optical discs a required distribution option for digital patient records for years to come. Continue reading »
May 1, 2012
The more convenient mobile devices get, the more often they are being misplaced. According to the Wall Street Journal, hundreds of iPads are being left on planes, with half or more of them unclaimed by their owners. And that’s a … Continue reading »
April 26, 2012
The Wall Street Journal’s story on the officeless office points to a larger trend that goes beyond the issue of cubicle timesharing: employees are spending less time together as companies are less and less defined by a physical location.
The “extended enterprise” is creating a gap in employee communication. Workers have less face time with their management and peers, and fewer hallway conversations. They miss out on the clarity, camaraderie and serendipity that comes with proximity. Add to that time-shifting due to increasingly global work teams and you have people that are less connected. Continue reading »
April 17, 2012
Rimage launched a new solution platform yesterday – Signal Online Publishing. Here’s what we say about Signal: Signal website Rimage Signal press release Here’s what others are saying: Tab Times ChannelPro Urgent Communications Business Review Canada Sports Video Group Media … Continue reading »
April 16, 2012
There’s a growing paradox for business owners and IT: make important digital content more available, while at the same time maintaining more control over it.
Businesses need to reach their audiences – internal and external – on all of their devices. But files are growing in size (thanks especially to the surge in video content). Send more, faster and broader.
At the same time, the costs and risks of sensitive or valuable content being misplaced or misdirected is growing as fast or faster. And content is growing so large that big publishing “events” can take down networks. Continue reading »
April 6, 2012
The Great Optical Fiber Bubble of 2000 was one for the record books. It terms of peak-to-trough magnitude, it makes the current real estate bubble look mild in comparison. For over a decade the installed optical fiber in the U.S. has remained overbuilt.
Until now.
The Wall Street Journal reports that Telecom infrastructure is in the midst of a bit of a boom, with 19 million miles of new fiber optic capacity installed in the U.S. last year.
What’s happening? It all goes back to the two drivers of digital content growth: Mobile and Video. Continue reading »
March 30, 2012
Did you know that people in Philadelphia lose their cell phones about six times more often than people in Chicago?
Or that the most common place to lose a phone in San Francisco is a coffee shop, while in London it’s a pub?
The Mobile Lost & Found site is full of these tidbits. While the trivia is quirky and fun, underlying it all is a disturbing trend for businesses: a lot of lost phones carrying a lot of sensitive business content. Continue reading »
March 15, 2012
Symantec intentionally “lost” 50 smart phones in several urban centers to see what would happen. The results are unnerving. Of the strangers that found the phones: 96% tried to access information on the lost phones 89% tried to access personal … Continue reading »
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