In a previous weblog article on “Open Access Service Examples,” one case includes an “Operator Community Widget.” Where I provided some use cases on how an operator can harness Facebook. The business model for the operator would be to insert itself into the 16%-20% of online time being spent for social communications; enhancing that experience; […]
The Apple App Store (AAS) recently achieved over 300M application downloads, the AAS web front page is shown below. It provides a template for the telecom industry on how to work with developers and how to sell applications to customers, as discussed in the End of Year Review weblog article. Granted it’s only for a […]
The purpose of this article is to review some of the significant developments and trends in the telecom industry through 2008, and look forward into next year on what developments and trends may start to unfold. Open Innovation, Telco API and SDP. A theme of this weblog throughout the year has been Open Innovation, the […]
The purpose of this article is to provide a summary of my findings from Informa’s IMS/SDP (IP Multimedia Subsystem) North America conference that ran from the 5-7 November in Dallas TX; I gave a preview of the event in this article. I’ve also put a few slides together to give a flavor of the conference […]
HomeCamera enables people to securely see what’s going on at home without being an expert in geeky stuff like DDNS (Dynamic Domain Name System), NAT (Network Address Translation) and port forwarding, which are generally required for the home surveillance solutions on the market today. HomeCamera aims to be an easy-to-use home surveillance system, with any […]
As part of the SDP (Service Delivery Platform) workshop a run, I have a section on the ODP (On Device Portal), where I run through the ODP landscape. I maintain a table of companies I consider relevant to the ODP Landscape, if you see any gaps or errors let me know, thanks. During the years […]
The term ‘on-device portal’ (ODP) describes ‘thin client’ software that provides a graphical user interface to improve the presentation of content on mobile devices, addressing the ‘3 Ls:’ Latency, Look-and-feel, and Lack of availability (not always connected). The ODP market remains nascent. However, we’ve seen this year some significant steps forward with the selection of […]