A common theme on many of my projects is providing either at the start or end of a project an in-depth workshop. The focus of these workshops is varied: providing a fast-track understanding on new technologies or business models; separating hype from reality; explaining the unsaid agendas of the suppliers and service providers; providing a […]
Unified communications is not new, its been around for nearly a decade. My start-up Teltier 10 years ago was promoting services such as missed call summary, instant conferencing and messaging, as well as unified communications (UC). There’s nothing like being painfully too early to market 🙂 Unified communications is the integration of real-time communication services […]
At the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona this year hSenid Mobile will be presenting their cloud-based telecom application platform. I covered this in a number of articles on SDP Asia’s Cloud SDP Workshop and on Cloud SDP. For many operators this low upfront cost approach enables quick and easy experimenting to find the right […]
Based on a number of courses I’ve given in the region over the past year on Hybrid TV, OTT (Over the Top) TV, IPTV, SDP (Service Deliver Platform) and IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) I think the market has ignored the potential of Africa as it transitions to digital TV through 2011/2012. A new conference has […]
Verizon now carries the iPhone. It runs on its CDMA network not LTE, which means voice and data do not work at the same time, in my experience that’s a relatively rare use-case, so not a big issue. Facetime still works as voice and WiFi can work at the same time. It also includes a […]
In April I’ll be running a pre-conference workshop at the IMS World Forum on “Market Status and Case Studies,” its aimed at both non-technical and technical managers responsible for, or whose platform / service will need to inter-operate with, IMS. The workshop’s objectives are: Provide a deep-dive quantified analysis of the IMS market status, enabling […]
James Parton brought up an interesting idea around consumer labeling of mobile apps. Its missing from the mobile eco-system. For most home appliances there is Energy Star labeling. Energy Star was first created as a United States government program during the early 1990s, later Australia, Canada, Japan, New Zealand, Taiwan and the European Union adopted […]
Building on their experience of O2 Litmus and Open Movilforum, Telefonica have launched BlueVia, see presentation below. Critically, this is a world-first in the API exposure business because they are sharing the love with developers, between 10-20% of traffic revenue, and 50% of ad-revenue. As you’d expect its web-centric with protocols and languages such as […]
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; […]
We hear Business Transformation (BT) mentioned by many vendors and consultants when they’re selling their products and services. It closely echos the messaging of SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) transformation of the past decade; and given the challenges we’ve seen in realizing those benefits, it’s fair to consider it in some ways a re-branding. Or you […]