Instant messaging is old, it predates the Internet, first appearing on multi-user operating systems like Compatible Time-Sharing System (CTSS) and Multiplexed Information and Computing Service (Multics) in the mid-1960s, its older than me! During the bulletin board system (BBS) phenomenon that peaked during the 1980s, some systems incorporated chat features that were similar to instant […]
At the IMS (IP Multiedia Subsystem) World Forum I gave a pre-conference workshop that summarized some of the results gathered in the IMS Status Report. The conference backed up the findings in the Report, and highlighted the many technology and business challenges we face as IMS rolls out. An interesting discussion point raised on both […]
I try not to prejudge, to write-off, as we all suck at predicting the future. But I sometimes just need to rant, here are a few. Connected Car. Why when everyone in the car already has a smartphone / tablet that’s up to the minute and customized to their needs. Not 3-6 year old technology […]
I was in the UK last week and caught up with the CEO of HTK, Marlon Bowser. HTK Horizon™ is a hosted service (“Software-as-a-Service”) that helps organizations or any size to “sell more and serve better, at lower cost” through highly personalized (‘micro-targeted’) inbound and outbound communication using email, SMS text messaging and interactive voice […]
We’ve all watched over the past week the mess that is Apple’s PR over tracking people’s location in iOS4. Apple entered a state of denial in being caught doing such a heinous action that it can not even admit the act to itself. A team of researchers discovered that iOS4 is (was) secretly obtaining the […]
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; […]
I’m often asked where Apple is going with respect to its devices and services. A key to understanding Apple is in general they do not lead on new concepts; rather they copy, but copy much, much better.For example, they were not first to market with MP3 players, but when they did enter that market they […]
Over the past few years I’ve interviewed hundreds of operators and suppliers in the TV distribution industry on deployment experiences, market requirements, competitive landscape, and technology trends. In the document below I bring a sample of some of my work in this space examining the evolution of Hybrid and Over the Top TV. If you’d […]
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 show below a sample of a taxonomy of the operators’ developer communities across consumer applications (e.g. widgets), consumer content (music, ring-tones, caller ring back tones, wallpaper), enterprise applications (e.g. field force automation tools) and enterprise IT (that is having enterprise IT departments build apps for their employees only). As discussed in the “Emerging App […]