I try not to prejudge, to write-off, as we all suck at predicting the future. But I sometimes just need to rant, here are a few. Connected Car. Why when everyone in the car already has a smartphone / tablet that’s up to the minute and customized to their needs. Not 3-6 year old technology […]
I was in the UK last week and caught up with the CEO of HTK, Marlon Bowser. HTK Horizon™ is a hosted service (“Software-as-a-Service”) that helps organizations or any size to “sell more and serve better, at lower cost” through highly personalized (‘micro-targeted’) inbound and outbound communication using email, SMS text messaging and interactive voice […]
We’ve all watched over the past week the mess that is Apple’s PR over tracking people’s location in iOS4. Apple entered a state of denial in being caught doing such a heinous action that it can not even admit the act to itself. A team of researchers discovered that iOS4 is (was) secretly obtaining the […]
Given all the activity in the technology industry: Sun disappearing into Oracle (aka The Borg); HP’s ex-CEO’s escapades with an actress (normally in the joke its a bishop) and then joining The Borg; Microsoft finally getting its PC OS right and making Office 2010 a pleasure to use; Twitter, Facebook and other’s crazy valuations; Wikileaks; […]
I’m often asked where Apple is going with respect to its devices and services. A key to understanding Apple is in general they do not lead on new concepts; rather they copy, but copy much, much better.For example, they were not first to market with MP3 players, but when they did enter that market they […]
Over the past few years I’ve interviewed hundreds of operators and suppliers in the TV distribution industry on deployment experiences, market requirements, competitive landscape, and technology trends. In the document below I bring a sample of some of my work in this space examining the evolution of Hybrid and Over the Top TV. If you’d […]
At the start of this year I created a white-paper around API management for Apigee (previously called Sonoa Systems). Apigee is a 65-employee company with 55 engineers (10 working on the Facebook team), run on $40 million in funding from Bay Partners, Third Point Management Partners, Norwest Venture Partners, Juniper Networks and SAP Ventures. Its […]
I show below a sample of a taxonomy of the operators’ developer communities across consumer applications (e.g. widgets), consumer content (music, ring-tones, caller ring back tones, wallpaper), enterprise applications (e.g. field force automation tools) and enterprise IT (that is having enterprise IT departments build apps for their employees only). As discussed in the “Emerging App […]
In previous articles I’ve discussed the three dimensions upon which a customer pays: cash, time/attention and privacy. As we’re seeing with Facebook and Google’s problems, society is starting to realize the value of privacy – businesses of all sizes should be even more concerned. Google has caused significant market disruption using a very old business […]
Hybrid TV is not new; it’s been within the industry’s lexicon for many years, the transition should not be a surprise. However, for many executives the shift to hybrid TV has been a quiet revolution. Especially given two of the telco industry’s most successful TV deployments, Verizon FiOS (2.9M customers in Q4 2009) and Orange […]