Monthly Archives: March 2009

Service Delivery Platform Virtualization

Virtualization is a hot topic, made more so by IBM’s potential acquisition of Sun; two leading proponents of virtualization and cloud computing.  From an enterprise perspective the drivers for virtualization are saving cost; and improving employee efficiency, manageability of IT and enterprise security.  Take for example desktop virtualization, e.g Sun Ray thin clients, it’s your […]

Explanation of EBIF, tru2way, OCAP, ETV for the non-Cable (Mobile) Folks

The previous weblog article described the learning offered by Canoe Ventures to the mobile industry in working successfully with other industries.  For the non-Cable (mobile) folks this article provides a little more depth on what the cable acronyms mean, how they fit together, and some analogies to the mobile industry to aid understanding. Tru2way was […]

Why the Mobile Industry needs to keep an eye on Cable’s Canoe Ventures

In the Mobile World Congress Summary weblog entry I made reference to the Cable industries targeted advertising initiative, Canoe Ventures. Canoe Ventures is backed by most of the US cablecos, including Comcast, Cox, Cablevision, Charter, Bright House, and Time Warner.  Its purpose is to make cable’s advanced advertising applications easier to buy and use, and […]

Mobile Operator Smart Pipes & Applications: 19-20 May London

On May 19-20th in London will be the Mobile Operator Smart Pipes and Applications Conference.  In attendance will be Steve Glagow, head of Orange Partner; Pieter Knook, head of Vodafone Internet Services, Sune Jakobsson, Telenor Open Services; James Parton, head of O2 Litmus; plus many more operators.  As well as leaders from Nokia Ovi, Google, […]

Options on how the Telco industry can work with the App Development Industry

Examining the factors necessary for app store success: Direct customer access: a critical factor in Apple’s success, and why operator third party developer initiatives continue to languish.  However, this is changing.  O2 Litmus was launched with direct customer access at its heart.  Similarly Vodafone’s Betavine Widget Zone is also allowing direct customer access.  Critically the […]

The Three Dimensions across which customers pay: ‘Customer Pay-Space’ or a 2 State System?

Following up on my presentation at eComm last week, I was asked to provide a little more background on my comment about the three degrees upon which customers pay.  They pay on three dimensions: cash, time and privacy; creating a ‘Customer Pay-Space.’  It’s important to remember with the non-cash dimensions (time and privacy) value is […]

Emerging Communications Conference 2009

Last year I heard many people talking very positively about a new conference, eComm (Emerging Communications Conference), last year attracted 300 people and 80 speakers from 15 countries; this year the number increased to 350, which given the current environment is a remarkable achievement.  eComm brings together people leading the change in telecoms from both […]