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Recent articles by Johna Till Johnson

Wireless broadband: There's a gap for that

February 04, 2010

Back in 2007, Nemertes Research predicted a "broadband access" gap that would begin affecting Internet connectivity by the year 2012.

The future of IT holds much promise

January 13, 2010

Every few years, someone announces "the death of IT." True, the industry's vital signs don't look all that promising ¿ particularly recently. Last year, IT budgets declined by 10% to 20%, depending on who you believe. Upwards of 100,000 IT jobs were lost in 2009 in the United States. And the pool of vendors is constantly shrinking, given the tsunami of bankruptcies and mergers over the past few years. (Adios, Nortel.)

Cloud computing: The telcos' game to lose

December 17, 2009

You're probably sick of hearing about cloud computing. I can't say I blame you. The buzz seems to be nearly deafening these days. And the most annoying part is that for those of us old enough to remember, it's "back to the future" all over again.

Data-leak lessons learned from the 'Climategate' hack

November 25, 2009

In case you've missed it, someone recently dumped a large cache of e-mail files and documents from the University of East Anglia University's prestigious Climactic Research Unit onto the ¿Net. The CRU is one of the leading climatology research institutions, and its data and models provide much of the infrastructure on which the theory of anthropogenic global warming (AGW) is based.

Your must-have telecom budget for 2010

November 12, 2009

It's autumn again. Wood smoke in the air, leaves crunching underfoot ¿ and budgets weighing down the desktop.

Investing in (all kinds of) infrastructure

November 02, 2009

October 27 marked the 105th birthday of the New York City subway system, which is both gratifying and depressing.

Firing up those femtocells

October 15, 2009

The folks over at the Femto Forum, in conjunction with the European telecommunications standards institute, recently announced a "plugfest" for March 2010. The plugfest will serve as a forum to for interoperability tests among femtocell network gateways, security gateways, femtocell access points and chipsets.

Hello net neutrality, goodbye Internet

October 01, 2009

As the old adage goes, "Be careful what you wish for ¿ you might get it, and wish you hadn't." Proponents of net neutrality might want to keep that in mind now that net neutrality regulations from either the FCC, Congress or both are a virtual certainty.

Transformative technologies for the 21st century

September 16, 2009

Innovations seem to have a natural economic life cycle: an obscure invention (say, electricity, or the internal combustion engine) sparks an entire constellation of industries, which grow exponentially for a while, then settle into a stagnant maturity.

Can UC me now?

September 01, 2009

Unified Communications is a buzzword that's front-and-center for many organizations this year. Some are already deploying various UC technologies (UC is one of the top three "recession-proof" technologies in Nemertes' 2009 benchmark). And many are building out long-term UC strategies.