The 4th annual SDP Asia event takes place in Singapore from 27-28 October 2009. Some of the operators presenting will be: Krishna N Basudevan, GM, Information Technology, Aircel Ltd, India; Clark Lam, Director of Service Platforms in Consumer Products, SingTel, Singapore; Rahadian Krishna Sundara, Head of Business Research, R&D Center PT Telkom, Indonesia; Alex Ibasco, […]
I hope you managed to have an enjoyable summer break. With the end of the summer holidays comes conference season… At the 4G Wireless Evolution conference next week in LA I’ll be moderating the session “The Ecosystem of Application Developers” (4G1-04), on Tuesday 1st Sept, 2:00-3:15pm. On the panel will be: Shai Berger, CEO Fonolo; […]
Opening Points: A smart pipe strategy is now critical to an operator’s service innovation plans as we saw with Vodafone, Joint Innovation Labs, Orange Partner, Telenor CPA; plus there are many more operators making money today in working with third parties, e.g. Globe, Telus, etc. However, all is not well in this ecosystem. Yesterday we […]
The Smart Pipes conference had about 80 attendees from across the value chain; not just operators, suppliers and consultants. In attendance were Steve Glagow, head of Orange Partner; Pieter Knook, head of Vodafone Internet Services, Sune Jakobsson, Telenor Open Services; James Parton, head of O2 Litmus; plus many more operators. As well as leaders from […]
On May 19-20th in London will be the Mobile Operator Smart Pipes and Applications Conference. In attendance will be Steve Glagow, head of Orange Partner; Pieter Knook, head of Vodafone Internet Services, Sune Jakobsson, Telenor Open Services; James Parton, head of O2 Litmus; plus many more operators. As well as leaders from Nokia Ovi, Google, […]
Mobile workers now account for over 25% of the worldwide worker population, about 750 million workers. This is using a broad definition of mobile worker; one who works away from their main office, whether it is on the road, in a home office, or in locations away from their company’s offices. Using a definition that […]
This article provides a brief summary on Day One of Informa’s SDP Asia conference in Singapore on the 26th November. A preview of the conference was given in this article. With 70 registered attendees and about 55 attendees in the room on Day One, APAC is bucking the trend in conference attendance by showing solid […]
The purpose of this weblog entry is to firstly provide some specific real-world examples of how opening up the network (exposing the Telco API) can significantly improve existing applications and stimulate revenue. And secondly, look across some of the addressable markets the Telco API opens up. Mobile Communities airG’s mobile community has more than 30 […]
The Key Revolution (TKR) has brought together the innovations of cloud computing and ‘chip and pin’ security technology to create a unique answer to the problem of secure remote working and collaboration with Mobiu. The service backs up data to a secure encrypted online MobiVault; enables collaboration and file sharing in MobiRooms; and uses a […]
The title is a bit of an oxymoron, how can a ‘start-up’ also be the largest inter-operator mobile community in the World? I’m being a little loose in the definition of ‘start-up’ as airG is really a profitable, established business. However, they still have the entrepreneurial zeal of a fresh-face start-up, and being secreted in […]