On the 16th January Apple App Store achieved 500 million downloads, granted most of the downloads are for free applications. But regardless this is a great achievement and a testament to focusing upon the needs of the customer and application developer. The Apple App Store was not the first App Store, some of its predecessors […]
The telecom and IT industries tend to suffer more than most from the hype cycle. What surprises me is the hype tends to be around technologies rather than solutions. I guess it’s easier to get excited about a something that ‘could do’ rather than ‘can do.’ At present the hype machine in gearing up on […]
The term ‘on-device portal’ (ODP) describes ‘thin client’ software that provides a graphical user interface to improve the presentation of content on mobile devices, addressing the ‘3 Ls:’ Latency, Look-and-feel, and Lack of availability (not always connected). The ODP market remains nascent. However, we’ve seen this year some significant steps forward with the selection of […]