By Bo Gowan
19 September 2008
12:05 pm EDT
Nortel CTO John Roese was a speaker at this week’s GigaOM Mobilize conference in San Francisco. John talked on-stage with GigaOM founder Om Malik.
You can see the entire Q&A on the GigaOM site here.
The Q&A started on the topic of Hyperconnectivity, then quickly moved to 4G and technologies like LTE.
John had a few interesting comments. When asked what the “killer app” would be for 4G, John responded: “The killer application in the 4G world is the fact that now you will be able to take every application that you’ve had in the wired world and deploy that in a mobile context. And then everything across the communication ecosystem will just be an Internet app.”
Another intersting comment came in …
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By Bo Gowan
23 July 2008
11:57 am EDT
Vacationers on the Greek island of Patmos will soon have free island-wide wireless Internet access. (photo credit patmos.com)It’s the middle of summer (for those of us north of the equator), and for many that means prime vacation season. But for an increasing number of workers, a vacation might mean some time on a sunny beach, but not necessarily a break from work duties.
One of the interesting findings of an IDC study that Nortel sponsored (The Hyperconnected: Here They Come) was that over one third of people surveyed check work email when on vacation.
Indeed it seems beaches everywhere are getting connected. The Greek island of Patmos …
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By Bo Gowan
12 June 2008
10:42 am EDT
A quick note here about a new piece of news from this morning that I found interesting. Today Nortel issued this press release about how Montreal’s Santa Cabrini Hospital is deploying a unified communications solution — one that is supposed to be the first to provide wireless voice, data and patient monitoring services hospital-wide over a single common “clinical-grade” network.
The hospital will also allow staff to use the network for their own personal devices to access clinical applications from the patient’s bedside.While the release talks about all the “official” uses for the network - support for wireless electrocardiogram monitors …
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By Bo Gowan
21 May 2008
8:24 am EDT
Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas
Last week while Nortel CTO John Roese and IDC senior vice president Vito Mabrucco were having a media event in Toronto to discuss the details of the IDC Hyperconnectivity study, Nortel was also hosting a group of reporters to it’s campus in Richardson, TX. This group of reporters was from CALA (Caribbean and Latin America), and the Nortel team had a full two-day agenda scheduled for them.
In addition to a telepresence session with John and Vito, the reporters were also treated to a visit to Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas to see the UC deployment …
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By Bo Gowan
14 May 2008
5:38 pm EDT
On a day when the growing importance of connected electronic devices was the focus, Nortel CTO John Roese and IDC senior vice president Vito Mabrucco hosted a media event in Toronto to release and discuss the details of the IDC White Paper “The Hyperconnected - Here They Come!”, sponsored by Nortel.
Nortel CTO John Roese and IDC Canada’s Senior VP of Worldwide Consulting and Managing Director, Vito Mabrucco speak via telepresence to media in Ottawa and Richardson, TX.In typical Hyperconnected style the, John and Vito also talked about the study results via telepresence to reporters in Ottawa and Richardson, TX.
While the main findings of the study have already …
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By Bo Gowan
13 May 2008
3:30 pm EDT
Nortel and IDC today issued the results of a new IDC study sponsored by Nortel on the “Exploding culture of connectivity and its impact on the Enterprise.” In other words — Hyperconnectivity.
The accompanying press release highlighted several results in the sub-head, including: “China and the United States have the most Hyperconnected business users.” But then today on his blog, Nortel’s Phil Edholm covers the news with the title IDC Hyperconnectivity Study - Is the US lagging????
The release headline relates to the fact that 16% of those surveyed in he U.S. are Are the numbers wrong, or it is just those darn Canadians weighing down the …
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By Bo Gowan
13 May 2008
2:01 pm EDT
Today Nortel and IDC issued the results of a new IDC study sponsored by Nortel on the “Exploding culture of connectivity and its impact on the Enterprise.” There is a ton of great information in this study, so here’s a quick summary of it.
Nortel CTO John Roese and IDC Canada’s Senior VP of Worldwide Consulting and Managing Director, Vito Mabrucco speak to a group of media in Toronto this morning on the results of IDC’s global survey sponsored by Nortel.For an overview of the study results, take a look at the Nortel press release. You can find a collection of related content and discussion of the study (as well as …
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By Bo Gowan
12 May 2008
6:12 pm EDT
This week on Buzzboard you’ll see a lot of coverage and analysis on where communications is going in the next few years. On Tuesday, Nortel CTO John Roese and IDC Canada’s Senior VP of Worldwide Consulting and Managing Director, Vito Mabrucco, will be hosting a press conference in Toronto detailing the results of a global study on Hyperconnectivity. The study covers a wide range of topics, from which countries have the most hyperconnected users to how many people admit to reading email in church.
And later this week, I’ll be traveling to Ottawa where we will be hosting several industry bloggers as part of our Nortel Futures 2008 event. We’ll be showing them the latest and greatest that …
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By Bo Gowan
24 March 2008
3:49 pm EDT
Nortel talks a lot about Hyperconnectivity…enough that we bought the domain name. When you have a few minutes, take a look at Hyperconnectivity.com. While Nortel has had this site live for a while, we recently re-launched it with completely new content.
The most notable change in the site is a new blog designed to be an unbiased and opinionated take on the business of Hyperconnectivity. I know what you’re thinking…an “unbiased” Nortel-sponsored blog, sure.
To accomplish the unbiased part, the site leans on two independent bloggers to drive the discussion: Alex Lewis and Carlo Longino. Alex is an enterprise IT consultant with 15 years industry experience. He also has a Microsoft-focused blog on Network World. Carlo is an experienced writer and analyst who …
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