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Mobile industry decides on LTE voice standard
News As IMS can simultaneously serve fixed broadband and LTE wireless services, the use of One Voice will also "open the path to service convergence", the companies said in a statement. Mobile operators and telecoms equipment manufacturers from around...
[November 6, 2009, 14:47]
Dell, Juniper hook up in networking alliance
News A number of companies are looking to technologies such as convergence onto Ethernet and the use of virtualised servers to simplify the rollout and maintenance of datacentres. Dell and Juniper Networks have signed a networking technology...
[October 29, 2009, 8:53]
Webcast: Security convergence equals network security cost savings
White Papers Listen to IBM Internet Security Systems' take on network security convergence. You will learn how to get more out of your existing investments in network security, combat new Web 2.0, Web application and database threats without purchasing stand...
[October 20, 2009, 13:14]
BPM SOA and Web 2.0: Business Transformation or Train Wreck?
White Papers Fortunately for them, the convergence of a trio of technologies and business practices—business process management (BPM), service-oriented architecture (SOA), and Web 2.0—is providing a solution. The challenges faced by today's government...
[October 15, 2009, 9:03]
Findings From the 'Information Security and Privacy' Group: Convergence of Liberty and WS-Federation Must Become a Reality
White Papers Even though SAML 2.0 has achieved significant penetration in the federated identity area, convergence of the protocols for handling SAML and other tokens is a requirement. Gartner believes that identity federation is crucial for advanced identity...
[October 5, 2009, 0:00]
Securing IP Networks
White Papers As Fixed Mobile Convergence (FMC) is opening the door to a wealth of new opportunities for service providers and their customers, it also ushers in a number of potential security flaws that can be exploited.
[October 1, 2009, 1:24]
Data on 3G: an Introduction to the Third Generation
White Papers The telecommunications world is changing as the trends of media convergence, industry consolidation, Internet and Internet Protocol (IP) technologies and mobile communications collide into one. Significant change will be bought about by this rapid...
[September 25, 2009, 3:04]
Anti-cybercrime centre opens for research
News What we are trying to do differently from other centres is the convergence of those two," Godfrey Gaston, operations director at Queen's University's Institute of Electronics, Communications and Information Technology (ECIT), told ZDNet UK.
[September 24, 2009, 9:58]
Sybase snuggles up with Siemens, but do you care?
Blog So Sybase is fairly tidy when it comes to mobile-device management and Siemens just happens to have some fairly presentable fixed mobile convergence technology (which it snappily labels Siemens Fixed Mobile Convergence Technology) so the two...
[September 23, 2009, 8:53]
HP heads into battle over virtual networking
News It's about that convergence — where does the server end, and the switch begin? A: It's all about the convergence of compute and storage today, such as blades. There's more virtualisation than ever before being installed in datacentres.
[September 21, 2009, 11:25]
O2 adds fixed-line services for business bundles
News Dowd said the Joined Up service differed from rival packages due to O2's wider strategy and its focus on technologies such as fixed/mobile convergence. O2 is introducing fixed-line and broadband alongside its existing mobile services, in packages...
[September 16, 2009, 17:33]
Successful Product Bundling Strategies for the Communications Sector: Why Optimizing Value Creation Is Critical to Success
White Papers The over-hyped "Age of Convergence" has already morphed into an "Age of Bundling. Despite a dizzying rush of fresh technological innovation, old-fashioned customer development strategies remain key determinants of success in the newest round of...
[September 16, 2009, 1:22]
Managing Transition to International Financial Reporting Standards
White Papers The IASB has ambitious plans to facilitate the convergence of local and country standards with IFRS. Inevitably, corporate financial reporting will be in a state of flux for the foreseeable future. Unexpected issues are certain to arise during this...
[September 15, 2009, 1:21]
The WiMax Spectrum Picture
White Papers Convergence is taking place between the technology road maps of WiMAX/802.16 and advanced 3GPP, 3.5G-4G cellular systems. Wireless broadband is clearly at a crossroads. These technologies are on a collision course and will provide similar bandwidth...
[September 11, 2009, 3:11]
Cisco 891 Integrated Services Router review
Reviews Several years ago, Cisco's hardware design engineers released their own take on convergence, the Integrated Services Router (ISR) family. This ISR focuses primarily on the networking side of the convergence coin, integrating an eight-port switch...
[September 7, 2009, 13:39]
The Convergence of Provisioning and Identity Auditing: The Key to Cost-Effective Compliance and Collaboration
White Papers The merging of cost, compliance, and online commerce as chief business concerns is driving the convergence of provisioning and identity auditing capabilities as well as the demand that such a converged solution be both sustainable and highly...
[September 1, 2009, 1:23]
Managing Convergence for Enhanced Customer Service
White Papers Entenial Direct had first to deliver a single platform for customers combining mortgages and traditional banking activities across the company's web site, call centres and network of branches, and at the same time offer main partners a flexible...
[August 30, 2009, 1:23]
Intelligent Vortex: Integrating Knowledge on e-Buying and e-Bonding
White Papers The convergence of the vertex buying and vortal bonding is the "Vortex". A great new opportunity is emerging for sellers of goods in vertical markets - advertising on a vortal for the industries using their products.
[August 30, 2009, 1:23]
WiMAX Billing Is No Challenge Anymore!
White Papers SunTec's convergent billing platform, with its unique pre-paid/post-paid convergence ability and its seamless integration with various third party systems, empowers WiMAX players to offer innovative payment models for voice, video, data and...
[August 22, 2009, 1:24]
Microsoft 2.0
Blog But it seems clear that you can't afford to overlook the importance of games platforms in media convergence.wg Going back to the beginning of the year. Mary Jo Foley's Microsoft 2.0 is the kind of book you really want to go back and grade after a...
[August 17, 2009, 8:52]
