The issue of America’s crumbling infrastructure isn’t just about bridges, highways, and railroads. It’s also about the overburdened cellular networks that power our wireless broadband and have become an indispensable part of our lives and our economy.

“Everyone wants an aggressive broadband rollout and they want it quickly, but demand has accelerated to the point that innovative solutions are going to hit roadblocks like interference,” says Michael Voellinger, a vice president at the Telwares telecommunications consultancy. “We’re still dealing with an antiquated spectrum strategy, and the risk is there for some serious time and money to be wasted — which appears to be the case for LightSquared.”

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Details here: Job Description-Senior Consultant

Interested? Please forward resumes to michael.voellinger@telwares.com

Brief description

The Senior Consultant is responsible for leading and executing specific Telwares client engagements and projects. This position requires a multi-talented individual that is knowledgeable in IT sourcing and change management practices. This includes all aspects of IT including network infrastructure components and transport services, fixed and mobile emerging technologies, collaboration solutions, hardware and software (such as CRM, ERP, BI), licensing and maintenance arrangements, and other adjacent IT categories.

Please forward resumes to michael.voellinger@telwares.com

Position summary:

• Performing all aspects of project management in support of client engagement. • Performing detailed analysis of client networks, voice systems, data center, storage, and other aspects of IT Infrastructure. • Developing roadmaps and strategies in support of next generation network, voice, data, and video services. • Conducting strategic planning to align client’s information architecture development and management with the overall business and IT planning effort. • Developing, document and implement project strategies that will provide optimal results for the client balancing key operational, technical, financial and contractual requirements. • Developing a range of alternate solutions and provide detail analysis of pros and cons of each approach. • Providing gap analysis and planning to map client path from current to future state. • Developing, documenting and managing client & service provider communications on behalf of clients with adherence to Telwares policies and practices. • Presenting recommended strategy and detailed analysis throughout the engagement and as events warrant. • Supporting special projects as well as routine and ad hoc reporting requirements. • Demonstrating ability to develop and cultivate relationship across various levels of the client organization. • Actively participating in account planning, sales and solutions development within current engagements or prospective clients. • Acting as a subject matter expert on assigned industry topics.

Heins already faces a number of significant challenges. Rim continues to struggle against rivals, especially in the US market. Product launches have been flawed, and the roadmap forward is unclear. Heins himself is seen as a fresh set of hands to run the business, but is not widely viewed as the visionary leader that RIM needs to reset the bar a failing brand.

If Heins is to capitalize on the opportunity, and for RIM to have a genuine chance at regaining momentum, his first step will be to stabilize initiatives already underway and prevent any short term missteps. It will also be critical that Heins quickly brings serious management and creative talent to the table – quelling some of the fire sale rumors and giving shareholders confidence in a long term strategy.

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Licensing and revenue sharing details about open source webOS are yet to be announced, but look for HP to be especially flexible on both fronts. Read more here from the BBC.

“Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose,” Mr. Jobs said in a commencement speech at Stanford University in June 2005, almost a year after he was diagnosed with cancer.”

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Gabe Cole, who leads the Telwares IT Transformation Practice, addressed all three angles when he stated “A colleague put it best when he said HP is a tremendously tormented company. Fundamentally, there is conflict between high volume lines that provide short-term financial boosts (such as printers, desktops, notebooks, etc.), and focusing on more valuable enterprise and services plays. Both of the previous CEOs tried to break that cycle and failed as a result of different personal “flaws”…Hurd violated board standards and Apotheker was aloof and failed to build a team. It is safe to say that neither won the favor of the board. This is likely the endgame for HP.”

HP is heavily woven into the computing fabric of leading organizations, and has been driving advances in consumer PC, storage and cloud computing markets for years. Through their announced acquisition of Autonomy, economics aside, we know they directionally understand the services market going forward and the value of a big data play in staying competitive with rivals. This is not a business that will unwind overnight. That said, large enterprises are increasingly risk-averse and looking to source their next-generation network and computing strategies with a primary partner – the public soap opera that is HP over the past several years, along with a 49% drop in stock price, will not bolster enterprise confidence that HP is the partner of choice.

“Meg Whitman and Ray Lane must take decisive action in the first 90 days to shake up the board and management if HP is to survive as an independent company. Incremental smoothing will no longer suffice as HP needs to redefine and focus on its corporate soul which somehow it lost along the way” added Cole.

To that end, communications to both employees and the public has been challenging for HP and has played a major role in the turbulence related to the organization. It’s been a disastrous combination of messaging from leadership to customers and employees in stark contrast to very public actions. Customers are left to discern what the truth is concerning strategic intent, and for employees how it will ultimately affect them personally and professionally. Even Meg Whitman’s first memo to the organization, undoubtedly aimed at creating some sense of reassurance and stability, misfired. The text was riddled with references to “we”, meaning Meg and Executive Chairman Ray Lane. Based on that intonation, there will be questions about who is in charge – and everyone is left to question just how viable the organization will be. In both cases HP erodes what is ultimately most valuable in the open market: trust and credibility.

Despite the public drama and speculation, the announcement of Meg Whitman could prove to be a positive turning point for HP. Whitman has a number of hits under her belt, including growing eBay into a powerhouse organization of over $8B and successfully purchasing PayPal. She brings with her the confidence of Silicon Valley, and the (mandated) support of her Board and Executive Chairman. Her roots in consumer businesses might also be the alternate perspective required to reinvent the companies vision and overhaul lines of business.

Enterprises should not erase HP as a potential supplier, but should apply a heavy dose of “wait and see” for the next few months. HP needs to quickly rebuild its stock price and regain credibility through crisp actions from Whitman, or risk being sold off in parts. If Whitman is not successful, there is no reason for any business to take on all that uncertainty when there are other, perfectly viable partners available.

What could be interesting for business was the introduction of Amazon Silk – basically a cloud-accelerated “split browser” that relies on Amazon’s EC2 cloud servers for faster web access. Based on the presentation from Bezos, Silk can learn from the behaviors of all users and determine how to best render specific content, pages and sites. This is not a new concept, but given how much of the popular web is already hosted by Amazon and the data-crunching ability of EC2 to make real time content decisions, this could prove valuable when extended to broader applications.

Rounding out today’s announcements were The Kindle Touch, with a touch screen and no keypad, that will retail for just $99. With the introduction of X-Ray (inline reference materials are downloaded with books, in the context of the book’s content), an extended battery, more storage capability, and a sleek form factor, this device will certainly be the grand slam of e-readers during the last calendar quarter of the year. There will also be a 3G variant, the Kindle Touch 3G, which will offer wireless connectivity in over 100 countries at $50 – for life. Also announced was an updated base Kindle – complete with buttons but minus the touch screen and X–Ray capabilities. The grab for this device will be the price point, at just $79.

The “full-duplex” technology developed by engineers at Rice University also could allow wireless phone companies to double throughput on their networks without adding a single cell tower.
“Our solution requires minimal new hardware, both for mobile devices and for networks, which is why we’ve attracted the attention of just about every wireless company in the world,” says Ashutosh Sabharwal, professor of electrical and computer engineering.

Read the full article here: Double wireless capacity with ‘full-duplex’.