Monthly Archives: September 2008

IMS/SDP North America Preview, 5-7 November, Dallas TX

Earlier this month I gave a weblog preview of Informa’s SDP (Service Delivery Platform) Asia conference in Singapore.  I’ll also be attending Informa’s IMS/SDP (IP Multimedia Subsystem) North America conference (5-7 November) in Dallas TX.  This weblog article provides a preview of the North American event.  Bringing the discussion on IMS and SDP together is […]

Start-ups to watch: The Key Revolution’s Mobiu

The Key Revolution (TKR) has brought together the innovations of cloud computing and ‘chip and pin’ security technology to create a unique answer to the problem of secure remote working and collaboration with Mobiu. The service backs up data to a secure encrypted online MobiVault; enables collaboration and file sharing in MobiRooms; and uses a […]

A Managed Services Primer

In the telecom industry Managed Network Services (MNS, aka Outsourced Network Operations) is likely to be a $10B business in ’08, with a CAGR (Compound Annual Growth Rate) of between 13-17%.  Europe accounts for 45% of the market.  The leading supplier in the market, Ericsson, rips-out other supplier’s equipment and installs its own in the […]

SDP Asia Preview, 26-28 November, Singapore

At the end of November I’ll be attending Informa’s SDP Asia conference in Singapore.  I’ll be running a post-conference workshop on the 28th November, and a couple of sessions through the conference (26-27 November).  Outlines of the sessions are shown below, and the conference brochure can be downloaded here.  The purpose of this article is […]

Open Innovation and Application Developer Needs

Over the past couple of years I’ve been helping operators understand ways they can harness open innovation.  Using a quote from Henry Chesbrough, UC Berkeley, from his book ‘Open Innovation’ to explain: “Open innovation means that valuable ideas can come from inside or outside the company and can go to market from inside or outside […]

O2 Litmus: Fundamentally changing the Application Developer Community Landscape

O2 Litmus, O2’s planned co-development community, headed by James Parton is not yet launched, but its unique approach already has the internet chattering about what is coming with articles in Paul Golding’s WirelessWanders, Contagious Magazine, MobileNews, and Infibeam to name just a few. I must disclose that I was fortunate to be asked by James […]