Last week patent reform legislation took yet another step forward as the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Patent Reform Act of 2007. The bill had strong bipartisan support. Our Bay Area Congressional delegation led the way. Here are their own words– Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco correctly tied patent reform to our nation’s ability to innovate:”The bipartisan patent reform bill is a significant step…

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By Jason Kohn, Contributing Columnist My last post described some of the cloud-based home healthcare services that broadband service providers are beginning to offer. Central to this idea is third-party partnerships: allowing outside healthcare providers into the traditional “walled garden” of telecom services. It’s easy to see how this model could be extended beyond healthcare. One can imagine all sorts of value-added cloud applications that th…

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Tags: App, cloud services, ecosystem, online video, open innovation, Service Provider

This past week, I attended the grand opening celebration of Verizon Wireless’ Innovation Center in Waltham, MA.  The center, which brings together companies and entrepreneurs alike, is designed to provide a collaborative, hands-on workspace to rapidly develop innovative products and services that leverage 4G LTE technology. The grand opening was an exciting event and the center was filled with innovative demos and technology tours featuring all…

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Tags: 3G, 4G, EPC, Evolved Packet Core, LTE, mobile internet, mobility, move, Service Provider, Verizon, Verizon LTE Innovation Center

So my wife and I recently took a two week vacation to Al aska – without computers or anything but camera’s and our ever important smartphones. I didn’t realize that Marie Hattar, our Segment VP was going to write a blog about the importance of vacations and productivity – see that here. Imagine that, I overachieved via a vacation! At any rate, back to the vacation – we left on Sunday so Saturday was reserved for clothes washing and packing. Grea…

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Tags: Alaska, Call Center, CPwE, data center, diagnostic, Ethernet to the factory, innovation, machine builder, Open, productivity, repair, Smartphones, Sustainability, vacation

I just arrived home from a couple of days visiting customers in Asia and I was a little surprised by all the attention around Cisco’s increased competitive posture. It seems some people are surprised Cisco is calling out its smaller networking competitor by name, although I’ve heard few mentions of their Wall Street Journal cartoon advertisements ridiculing Cisco a while back. I guess that didn’t count. Here’s the issue. If you’re going to cla…

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Tags: Cisco, Cloud Computing, desktop virtualization, hosted collaboration, Juniper Networks, mobility, networking, rob lloyd, unified computing