A previous article set out the litany of excuses given as to why communication innovation has stopped in operators; and we’re working through how those excuses can be solved / avoided / ignored. This article expands a little more through a case study the “We tried that service (or similar service) in our market and […]
In a couple of weeks the main broadband event of the year will be held in Paris, the Broadband World Forum, October 26-28th, CNIT La Defense. By the numbers there will be 6000+ attendees, 280+ exhibitors, 200+ speakers, 125+ global carrier case studies & presentations. The latter number is key, like MWC (Mobile World Congress) […]
With the much anticipated launch of Google TV next month on Sony and Logitech devices, its getting crowded in the OTT (Over The Top) TV market. With CE (Consumer Electronics) manufacturers, middleware vendors, operators, web-based service providers, content owners, and a vast array of start-ups rushing to confuse the customer. I covered this in an […]
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 […]
This previous article set out the litany of excuses given as to why communication innovation has stopped in operators; and as promised we’re now going to work through how those excuses can be solved / avoided / ignored. To begin with there is the classic “We tried that service (or similar service) in our market […]
I was approached recently by IVO software, a leading TTS (Text To Speech) company, with their IVONA TTS service. Now on first sight you may think TTS is a rather old technology, which generally sounds like a disjoint Stephen Hawkings, struggles with acronyms and the contextual pronunciation of many words. But this is where IVO […]
Discussed in the previous article is the fact that as an industry we’re not innovating on our core service: communication. I hear a litany of excuses as to why communication innovation has stopped, I show below a sample for your amusement and frustration. In the next articles I’ll go through how those excuses can be […]
I was thinking the other day how little I now use my phone for day-to-day communications, and then started to think, why is that? To start with operators have been rather unsuccessful with their communication VAS (Value Added Services) – most people call them communication apps these days. There are hundreds of them, for example […]
Its the first time since its inception that I’ll not be able to attend SDP Asia, instead I’ll be at the BBWF (BroadBand World Forum), I reviewed the BBWF conference and the sessions I’ll be running in this aricle. As a quick aside: DEMO is taking place this week, and congratulations to GotoCamera (previously HomeCamera) […]
With respect to mobile payments the critical differences between developed and developing markets is the presence of a mature banking / payments infrastructure and the 700% greater penetration of credit / debit cards compared to mobile phones. Examining the struggles mobile payments have had in developed markets: Mobipay is a mobile payment mechanism that allows […]