Tag Archives: ODP

Re-inventing the On Device Portal – The App Store

The Apple App Store (AAS) recently achieved over 300M application downloads, the AAS web front page is shown below.  It provides a template for the telecom industry on how to work with developers and how to sell applications to customers, as discussed in the End of Year Review weblog article.  Granted it’s only for a […]

End of Year Review

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 […]

Case Study on the Recipe for Mobile Video Success

I’ve know Liew Kong Nam for many years, since he was in the Singaporean start-up Line Fusion (that name and website is lost to the mists of time), which was bought by Dilithium Networks.  His new venture, Nano Equipment (I’ll use the acronym NE as the name is a legacy issue), is a mobile video […]

The need for a Telco Handset API: Using SUPL (Secure User Plane Location) and its failure to revolutionized LBS (Location Based Services) as a case study

Secure User Plane Location (SUPL, pronounced supple) in essence enables applications to directly talk to the AGPS (Assisted Global Positioning System) unit on the mobile phone, without the need to pay the operator for a location dip.  SUPL potentially side-lines the operator out of providing location information; without the need for a costly, complex and […]

An Industry at the Crossroads: Mobile World Congress 2008 Summary

Overall My impression of MWC (Mobile World Congress, nee 3GSM) is it was quieter than last year, less hype and less people; however, the organizers claim attendance was up 3000, perhaps they were all the pick-pockets?  I think the industry is at a crossroad, in my discussions with operators internet access is the product that’s […]

Findings from SDP Asia 2007

SDP Asia was held in Singapore 26th-29th November 2007.  It’s the 2nd such event Informa has run, and presented a chance to test out some of the ideas I’ve been developing within the US and European markets around the Application Network Interface and its role within the SDP (Service Delivery Platform).  SDP is a broad […]

Is the On Device Portal (ODP) Evolving to Rich Mobile Applications (RMA)?

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 […]