802.11ac is Almost Here
802.11ac will start appearing in force in products this year. It is the latest and greatest Wi-Fi standard that will replace 802.11a, b, and g. It will receive final approval this year. Now, considering how long it has taken the working group, and how many man hours they have put into it that it would solve […]
Cord-cutting UC
Network World is confusing cord cutting with going mobile. We observed in our newsletter a week ago that the integration of business apps on mobile devices was very important to business, but we weren’t quite sure businesses were willing to “cut the cord” in favor of wireless substitution. However, based on results published this week in the BroadSoft 2011 […]
The Chaos of BYOW (Bring Your Own Wi-Fi)
It all started as an innocent joke: Robert Scoble was sitting in the front row @ Apple’s WWDC conference while I was following the tweetstream from home. Little did we know out joke would soon turn serious, as Steve Job’s keynote demo crashed when his shiny new iPhone 4 could not get a network connection. […]
FacePalm
The future is here according to Steve Jobs. Maybe he should tell Pixar to make “Back to the Future 4″ cause there sure were a lot of “time travellers” who tried video-calling five years ago. Video calling is fun. Once. Then you never use it again. I’m surprised Apple is pushing FaceTime the way they […]
Time for Device Independent Data Plans
The Apple iPad event is still on, and the Internet is crumbling… Twitter barely crawls, CoveritLive isn’t exactly live, the major sites providing blog coverage are barely accessible… this is iKill – the day Apple Killed The Net. 🙁 But I want to talk about something more important: It’s a screenshot from Engadget’s coverage. Yes, […]
Cracking The Wifi Security, The Cloud Way
One of the biggest selling point of cloud computing is its ability to scale up and down based on the resource needs. One of the most quoted stories by Cloud evangelists in the early days was the story of New York Times tapping into EC2 scaling capabilities for their needs. Using Amazon Web Services, Hadoop […]
What’s a Web Conference Without the Web?
Le Web is Europe’s largest Web 2.0 conference, with 1,800 participants from all around the world coughing up $2K each to listen to sessions, mingle, and to demo their startups to their peers, media and VC’s. It’s considered a gathering of influencers, so much so, that 2 years ago then Presidential Candidate Nicolas Sarkozy found […]
Announcing the CloudAve Decent Access Initiave (DAI)
Here on CloudAve we spend a reasonable amount of time travelling to, from and between conferences. We see lots of different hotels and attend many different events. Nice guy David Terrar posted complaining of the poor WiFi access at the Web 2.0 Expo in Berlin recently, he also compared that to the frankly outstanding access […]
