Category: Network

It was only after my wife acquired an iPhone 4S this week that I fully understood the importance of big data for SaaS vendors. Did you need to train Siri to recognise your voice, I wondered? What I found from a brief Internet search was a revelation. I’m old enough to remember the PC-based voice recognition systems of the late 1990s from the likes of IBM and Dragon Software. Those systems had to be trained over a period of a week or more to recognise the sound of the user’s voice. Siri doesn’t do that. Instead, it matches the voice it hears to a library of voice patterns and uses the closest match to interpret what you say.
Continue reading “Cloud apps, big data and the wisdom of swarms”

Avaya has had trouble wooing new customers to its all IP line of communications equipment – from straight-up VoIP telephony to unified communications – but buying Nortel’s enterprise business could help alleviate all that, says Zeus Kerravala, an analyst with the Yankee group.

The deal is really all about the customers, he says, and convincing them to migrate their phone systems to Avaya gear over time.
“They’d want to upgrade the legacy and hybrid customers to IP,” he says. “That would be the question. Could they convert the customers fast enough before they go to another vendor?” Continue reading “Nortel: Why Avaya”

Online marketing of the car led light bulbs is the utilization of the traditional media to disseminate the information to the public. It is the use of the electronic and the print media to pass the persuasive message to the people. This means that one utilizes the radio and television in electronic media and the newspapers and magazines in the print media to pass the message. There is the third aspect of the use of the billboards to pass the message to the target audience.

Online advertising of the iphone 4s is the utilization of the online technology as a way of disseminating of the information. The use of internet technology is what can be used so as to make people believe in the message. Online marketing utilizes the search engines and the official websites. All these are made possible by the internet. The internet makes it possible for the people to search for themselves the information they want. Continue reading “Online versus traditional marketing of LED products”

What happens when your iPad goes on the fritz? Take it to an Apple Genius, of course. If it’s an iPad used for work, though, you’ll probably ring up the help desk first—and this means CIOs better be ready to support consumer products.

There’s just one problem: While the help desk is being tasked to do more in the age of consumerization of IT, additional resources are not forthcoming.

At least this is a key finding in PC Helps survey of nearly 500 IT leaders across healthcare, financial services, manufacturing, education and retail about their pain points of consumer gadgets in the enterprise. More than 65 percent reported no increase in support resources, despite nearly 70 percent experiencing a significant increase in demand for the help desk.

And we’re not just talking about company-owned consumer gadgets, either. More than 40 percent of respondents reported that their companies allow employees to bring their own devices. It’s an emerging trend called BYOD (bring your own device) that is wrought with IT challenges.

Consumer gadgets can be anything from Apple iPads to Android smartphones to BlackBerry PlayBooks. The overwhelming majority—more than 85 percent—have seen an increase in the use of iPhones and iPads, according to PC Helps.