We’re reaching an interesting stage in operators’ attempts to remain relevant to customers beyond voice and internet access, which still remains a nice business, yet commoditization continues, albeit at a slower pace than most have predicted. The slow pace shows the strength of state-granted duopolies / oligopolies. Though we’re seeing a mounting chorus in the […]
MWC 2011 was packed, they need two walking lanes in each direction, else allow the use of cattle prods to move people along who insist on doing the “smartphone prayer” (standing still, head bowed, staring at a screen) in the middle of doorways and walkways; it’s becoming a social problem. There was no one theme […]
The BBWF InfoVision Awards were announced last night. Firstly, congratulation to the Dial2do team for winning in the Best Service Category. Sean O’Sullivan (CTO Dial2do) along with Varun Aorora (CEO GotoCamera, winner of last year’s InfoVision Award) will be on the panel session I’m running on Thursday 28th Oct 1430-1545: Aligning to Developer Needs Using […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
The Crunchies are to technology what the Oscars are to Hollywood. The awards celebrate the best tech accomplishments of 2009. Voting is now on for the third Crunchies award ceremony on Friday January 8, 2010 at 7:30 pm the Herbst Theater in San Francisco. I’ve reviewed HomeCamera before in this article. The HomeCamera webcam security […]
O2 Litmus just announced the winners of its application competition: Intelligenti Publishing, who takes home the £10k prize; and Two apps shortlisted by a judging panel of O2 customers were: Percula Software’s EventHorizon; and Live TalkBack. Live TalkBack is founded by Matt Millar, who was on my panel session at the Smart Pipes Event in […]
Overall view of the show: Better than ever to do business. The number of meetings, their quality, and the decisiveness of the people involved was up. MWC (Mobile World Congress) has returned to the days where the focus is business not hype. I hope they can keep this quality and focus in the years to […]
The purpose of this article is to review some of the significant developments and trends in the telecom industry through 2008, and look forward into next year on what developments and trends may start to unfold. Open Innovation, Telco API and SDP. A theme of this weblog throughout the year has been Open Innovation, the […]