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EDS' Next Big Thing Blog: Read and Respond to What the EDS Fellows Say About Technology

Read and respond to what the EDS Fellows have to say about the future of technology on EDS' Next Big Thing Blog on eds.com.

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WiMax finally on the move in the US??

I've written before about WiMax and it was good to see this past week that efforts may be taking place in the US in 2008.

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Posted Monday, May 12, 2008 1:37 PM by Charlie Bess | 0 Comments

Collaboration 1.0 or 2.0?

I was reading through a very interesting study by the Economist Intelligence Unit about collaboration. We have made tremendous progress on the technology front, as is reflected in the developments in the Web 2.0 space. In spite of all this technology advancement, it seems that face-to-face collaboration still has the greatest success rate.

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Posted Thursday, May 08, 2008 8:40 AM by René Aerdts | 0 Comments

Will Physical Media Go the Way of the Dinosaur?

According to EMC's Worldwide Information Growth Tracker, we have created more than 112 exabytes of information so far this year, with an anticipated compounded growth rate of almost 60% between now and 2011.  By contrast, it is estimated that in 2007 the British office workers printed up to 120 billion pages. This amounts to a paper mountain over 8,200 miles high!

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Posted Thursday, April 17, 2008 8:50 AM by René Aerdts | 0 Comments

Gaming and Business

In reading "Wargaming, the business", one can imagine that a simulation of a complete enterprise is created that over time can model different scenarios and associated outcomes. If we take a step back and see how teenagers and pre-teenagers are working and interacting with technology (specifically simulation and gaming), we gain an insight on how corporations have to adapt in the future.

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Posted Wednesday, April 16, 2008 1:29 PM by René Aerdts | 0 Comments

Enterprise Mobility?

I finally made some time to go over some of the magazines and articles that were collecting dust. Charlie Bess' blog on the 8 Technologies to Master in '08 combined with recent article published in Asia on the Read full entry...

Posted Thursday, April 10, 2008 12:43 PM by René Aerdts | 2 Comments

A Different Kind of Cloud Computing

In reading through the recent blog on cloud computing, my mind started wandering to this very topic. However, I was not thinking about cloud computing in the "traditional" sense of compute-as-a-service, but in a more controversial fashion.

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Posted Tuesday, April 08, 2008 8:14 AM by René Aerdts | 2 Comments

FCC nets $19.6 billion for 700 MHz auction

Since there have been a number of entries on this blog about the spectrum action (this, this and this), there had to be at least one more on the fact that the auction is over for the 700 MHz spectrum.

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Posted Wednesday, March 19, 2008 8:47 PM by Charlie Bess | 1 Comments

Morphing phone concept based on nanotech

Nokia has unveiled "Morph" a concept phone based on using nanotechnology capabilities (e.g., shape, color changing). Many times when people hear about nanotechnology they wonder what difference it could make for them personally. The concept video shows how future mobile devices will allow users to modify the device to fit changing situations, conforming to different shapes and functions.

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Posted Wednesday, February 27, 2008 3:35 PM by Charlie Bess | 0 Comments

700 MHz Spectrum auction started

A few weeks ago I gave an update on the spectrum action. Well now it’s started.

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Posted Friday, January 25, 2008 8:05 PM by Charlie Bess | 0 Comments

FCC Frequency Auction update

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission announced this week that it approved a total of 214 bidders for the upcoming 700MHz auction, which is due to start on Jan. 24.

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Posted Friday, January 18, 2008 3:12 PM by Charlie Bess | 0 Comments

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