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PodSnacks: Application Services Layer

Posted Thursday, July 10, 2008 6:00 AM by mgilbert :: 0 Comments
Filed under PodSnacks, Internet, TCP/IP, Telecommunications, Technology, Data Communications, Applications, Application Layer
Attachment(s): http://podcast.hill-vt.com/podsnacks/2008q3/application_services_layer.mp3

Today we go back to the world of network models and architectures, and we take a quick look at the highest layer of the four-layer TCP/IP model: the Application Services Layer . This is the layer that is concerned with the various tasks we are trying Read More...

PodSnacks: Unified Messaging (UM)

Posted Friday, June 20, 2008 6:00 AM by mgilbert :: 0 Comments
Filed under PodSnacks, Convergence, Telecommunications, Technology, Applications
Attachment(s): http://podcast.hill-vt.com/podsnacks/2007q2/unified_messaging.mp3

We hear a lot about convergence , but the discussion is often focused on combining voice and data in a common network. Convergence is about more than the network, though. It's also about the applications. Today, we'll ask Paul to take us through Read More...

Check out Xobni

Posted Monday, May 05, 2008 10:17 AM by thindson :: 0 Comments
Filed under Applications

Thanks to Ken from ipadventures who sent me an invitation, I have been trying out an add-on to Outlook called Xobni , which is inbox backwards and pronounced Zob-Nee. What Xobni does is provide you with additional information about the email you are currently Read More...

PodSnacks: IP Multimedia Subsystem

Posted Friday, April 25, 2008 6:00 AM by mgilbert :: 0 Comments
Filed under IMS, PodSnacks, TCP/IP, Convergence, Telecommunications, Technology, Data Communications, Applications
Attachment(s): http://podcast.hill-vt.com/podsnacks/2007q2/ims.mp3

We've had a few podcasts on IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS), but Paul and I thought a brief podsnack to give a high-level definition might be a good idea. Then, if you are curious, you can go listen to some of the other podcasts we've done on this Read More...

PodSnacks: Back Office Application

Posted Thursday, April 17, 2008 6:00 AM by mgilbert :: 0 Comments
Filed under PodSnacks, Telecommunications, Technology, Data Communications, Applications
Attachment(s): http://podcast.hill-vt.com/podsnacks/2008q2/boa.mp3

Today we talk about a fairly generic concept: the back office application . The idea is fairly trivial: it's the software that is implementing the business logic to support a user interface, and it is typically running on high-end systems in the data Read More...

PodSnacks: Peer-to-peer vs. Client/server

Posted Tuesday, April 15, 2008 6:00 AM by mgilbert :: 0 Comments
Filed under PodSnacks, Telecommunications, Technology, Data Communications, Applications, Application Layer
Attachment(s): http://podcast.hill-vt.com/podsnacks/2008q2/p2p.mp3

Over the past several weeks, there has been a lot of talk about Comcast, and other ISPs , that were attempting to get bandwidth under control by throttling users or explicitly interfering with peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing. I thought this might be a Read More...

Just @#$% it! What are they saying?

Posted Tuesday, April 08, 2008 9:16 AM by msteinberg :: 0 Comments
Filed under Industry Analysis, In the News, Web 2.0, Innovation, Odds and Ends, Applications

Normally, we would include something like this in the newsletter, but we're about to send it out to everyone, so we'll opt to place it on the blog. It's amazing how a little sexual innuendo advertising video can enable visibility for IT sales. Read More...

Business Week Gives Us Some IPTV

Posted Tuesday, April 08, 2008 8:09 AM by mgilbert :: 0 Comments
Filed under Industry Analysis, In the News, Telecommunications, Technology, Applications, Television

I don't have a lot to talk about today. I'm too busy wandering through this collection of slides shows and articles. In a nutshell: A slide show introducing you to TV-related mobile gadgets and services like SlingBox, Orb, Sony's Location-free Read More...

PodSnacks: World Wide Web

Posted Monday, April 07, 2008 6:00 AM by mgilbert :: 0 Comments
Filed under PodSnacks, Internet, TCP/IP, Telecommunications, Technology, Data Communications, Applications, Application Layer
Attachment(s): http://podcast.hill-vt.com/podsnacks/2007q1/www.mp3

We use it every day. You're using it now (if you're reading our blog)! Some even think that the World Wide Web is the Internet . It's not. It's actually just one of many applications that can be accessed via the Internet, or ride on the Read More...

Is Business Intelligence an Oxymoron?

Posted Saturday, March 29, 2008 1:24 PM by mgilbert :: 0 Comments
Filed under Industry Analysis, Technology, Applications

I'm not talking about business intelligence the way we talk about military intelligence; I'm talking about the software. Lately I've started to dabble in producing a few PodSnacks that are focused on aspects of this arena, and I intend to Read More...

PodSnacks: Supply Chain Management (SCM)

Posted Thursday, March 20, 2008 6:00 AM by mgilbert :: 0 Comments
Filed under PodSnacks, Telecommunications, Technology, Data Communications, Applications
Attachment(s): http://podcast.hill-vt.com/podsnacks/2008q1/scm.mp3

Any organization exists to produce something, as I am fond of saying to my students. The means the organization needs supplies. Sometimes it is the supplies they sell (e.g., a retailer), sometimes the supplies are used to build product (e.g., a manufacturer), Read More...

PodSnacks: Data Warehousing

Posted Tuesday, March 18, 2008 6:00 AM by mgilbert :: 0 Comments
Filed under Storage, PodSnacks, Telecommunications, Technology, Data Communications, Applications
Attachment(s): http://podcast.hill-vt.com/podsnacks/2008q1/data_warehousing.mp3

In my never-ending quest to flesh out and clean up our wiki, I came across our entry for data warehousing . This is a critical component in an overall business intelligence application, which I think we'll probably be building up to over the coming Read More...

PodSnackS: Email Addresses

Posted Friday, March 14, 2008 6:00 AM by mgilbert :: 0 Comments
Filed under PodSnacks, Internet, Telecommunications, Technology, Data Communications, Applications
Attachment(s): http://podcast.hill-vt.com/podsnacks/2007q1/email_addressing.mp3

Email is something we all use and it has been around for a long time. Many people, however, don't understand the structure and syntax of that email address they use every day. In today's PodSnack, Dave explains it to you. You can listen to (or Read More...

Controlling the Flow

Posted Wednesday, February 27, 2008 1:41 PM by mgilbert :: 1 Comments
Filed under Industry Analysis, In the News, Internet, Telecommunications, Technology, Data Communications, Applications, Layer 4, Transport Layer

I was reading an article on the great Comcast P2P debate. It's been in the news for a few weeks now. Comcast has been trying to deal with the massive volume of traffic that can be produced by such peer-to-peer applications as BitTorrent and Gnutella Read More...

What's Up with IT?

Posted Thursday, February 14, 2008 4:03 PM by mgilbert :: 1 Comments
Filed under Industry Analysis, In the News, Data Communications, Applications, IT

Or maybe it's just Nicholas Carr ? In May of 2003, Carr set the IT community abuzz with an article (and then a book) entitled IT Doesn't Matter . His premise was that IT is essentially a commodity. Carr claimed that commodities are tactical, not Read More...

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