Samsung recently officially launched first full 3D TV in UK. Similarly other major vendors like Panasonic, LG and Mitsubishi have also started offering their 3D TV sets. Sony is expected in a couple of months from now and Sharp will come out by this year end. So 2010, should see 3D TV sets out in [...]

Securing our private spaces over e-services we have subscribed to is everybody’s concern. We use e-services for emails, messengers, calls, watching videos, reading content, doing financial transactions and other several things. At present, the best we can do to keep them secure is keep on changing the passwords after some regular time period. We can [...]

Next Generation Networks have made broadcasters telecom companies and vice versa. A telecom operator is your television broadcaster and the company that provided content to your television sets is offering you telephone services. As an end user, it might rarely be affecting or could even go unnoticed. But, for the industry it matters a lot. [...]

VoIP is still restricted in many countries by regulations. Apart from the birth it gives to the grey market, eats up revenue and traffic of the PSTN operators, blah blah; the restrictions not allowing VoIP has fragmented the industry considerably. The large serious players are unlikely to do anything that is illegal. So we might [...]

Skype is one of the products that has contributed in its field and become an integral part of the industry. It is a global telecom operator in essence with most of its followers claiming to have become global players. The application is used by over 400 million registered users. The most recent update (Version 4) [...]

One basic benefit that attracts any person towards IP is cost saving. Where you were spending around a dollar on call per minute, IP alternative could either be offering that for free or around a few cents. Even at this level companies are enjoying handsome margin levels. IP has really enabled certain technologies that could [...]

Historically data vendors, like Cisco, have got an entry in telecom space mainly due to IP Telephony. IP Telephony did wonders and bad things concurrently for vendors in the communications space – be it a data vendor, voice vendor, video vendor, wireless vendor or wireline vendor. IP brought them all on the same table. By [...]

Research In Motion, the force behind, perhaps, the most successful wireless device in enterprise domain – Blackberry, announced yet another extraordinary quarter, even in this downturn, when everyone is trying to stabilise than grow. As per the impressive results for the quarterly (December 2008 – February 2009), the company earned a revenue of $3.46 billion [...]

IPTV for the end users is another way of watching television. In India, like many other countries it is the latest in the world of broadcast. Like many other consumer oriented technologies, IPTV in India can be a great success. This is firmly believed by many vendors and operators who are willing to get in [...]

Recently there has been a series of communication between TRAI (Telecom Regulatory Authority of India) and Department of Telecommunications, Government of India about the formulation of regulations for Internet Telephony or VoIP in the country. As is common with bureaucracy, such correspondences trigger a series of communications between the two parties and the same happened [...]