Smart devices are turning homes into "smart homes." Today’s consumers tend to be inundated with technology on a daily basis. According to information collected by Pew Research Center, in the United States, 77% of individuals own a smartphone and 95% use a cellphone of...
Today’s users increasingly expect their information and data to be easily accessible. This is a desire that reaches across industries and positions, with a CEO of an established business just as likely to demand this kind of connectivity as a consumer looking...
GeoTel Communications, LLC recently worked with the City of Chicago to provide critical fiber infrastructure data, specifically fiber route data, for the city's proposal to Amazon.com Inc.'s RFP from North American metro areas for a second corporate headquarters,...
Why are broadband speeds in the US much slower than in other countries? Fast broadband speeds are vital for economic opportunity, growth, and connectivity around the world. Initiatives around the world such as IoT, fiber network expansion, and smart cities may never...
What exactly is cloud computing? Cloud computing is an increasingly popular form of computing that relies on the storage and retrieval of data from the cloud. The “cloud” is simply a term used in place of the internet. Whenever you use an online service to back up...
The Internet has changed our lives in ways many of us never deemed possible. The connections it has given people are nothing short of amazing. The Internet allows people to communicate with each other over immense distances and across boundaries that formerly made communication difficult or impossible.
Industrial IoT It might seem as though we’ve reached peak internet-related technology given the ever-increasing number of smart devices. That is not quite the case, however, as indicated by the growing interest in the Internet of Things (IoT). In fact, technological...
IoT, Meet iOS Apple (AAPL) and General Electric (GE) announced this week that they will team up for a new venture involving Apple smart devices and GE’s Internet of Things (IoT) industrial platform, Predix. The news comes as a relative surprise to many, and the shared...
A few decades ago, landlines were available in the vast majority of homes in the United States. The same cannot be said today, as the ailing landline industry has been steadily declining over the past decade. It might seem as though smartphones are the obvious...