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Adults Text and Drive More Than Teens, Survey Suggests
A survey suggests that 27 percent of American adults have texted while driving, while a full 61 percent report having used a cell phone while behind the wheel. Of the American teens surveyed, some 26 percent texted while driving, while 43 percent reported making calls while behind the wheel. Several states have banned the use…
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Cisco’s Goodwin: Virtualization, Cloud Driving New Channel Opportunities
Cisco Systems has never been a company that sat idly by as the world around it evolved. In the past 18 months, Cisco has embarked on radical departures from its networking legacy to embrace emerging technologies such as video, consumer electronics and, of course, virtualized data centers. The evolution of Cisco has put it on…
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Cisco, HP, Microsoft, Avaya, and Polycom Draw Battle Lines in Unified Communications War
Thousands of companies have deployed voice on their IP networks, and as the benefits of other unified communications technologies become more obvious, they’re looking to build on their voice deployments and integrate communications together. The fractured market is made up of major vendors such as Cisco Systems (www.cisco.com) acting as one-stop shops, alliances of vendors…
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Nielsen: People Spent 22 Percent of Their Time on Social Networks
The research firm found social network or blog sites are visited by three-quarters of consumers who visit the Web. This bodes well for advertisers and the free social networks trying to make money from their users’ rampant use of their walled gardens to trade and share links, photos, videos and other information. READ MORE >>
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Net Neutrality: Too Costly To Implement?
In the report, the authors describe net neutrality’s restrictions on the development of new business models, its impediments to the reliable delivery of life-enhancing content and services, and the injection of uncertainty into the marketplace. The paper estimates the likely investment, job, and GDP losses resulting from the imposition of such rules. The authors argue…