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This week at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2010, Microsoft Corp. was highlighting market opportunities for hosting and communications service providers as adoption of cloud services among small and midsize business (SMBs) continues to rise. Microsoft is offering to help service providers take advantage of those opportunities through its software, services and programs that enable them to become trusted advisors and full-service IT providers to businesses. That all sounds grand but Microsoft... -
I'm sure you've heard of Steve Jobs but I wonder if you've ever heard of Charles Stross. Last week his name came up twice in dispatches, firstly from my TM Forum colleague, Josh Goldfein, and secondly in a TelecomAsia article written by my good friend and global technology editor, John Tanner. So what, you ask? Well, Mr Stross, a prolific author based in Edinburgh, has pieced together Mr Job's master plan not only for Apple but for the IT and communications industry as a whole, and... -
Google looks to do for the ‘cloud’ what Apple successfully did for the mobile world by setting up a Cloud-based app store. But that could be easier said than done. For third-party apps to successfully proliferate in this environment they will first have be integrated with existing Google Apps. The Google Apps Marketplace is an online store where Google Apps users can browse different cloud-based applications and select from a suite of online tools. The ability to share data between existing apps... -
You know times are a’changing when the CEO of Microsoft announces that 90 per cent of his staff will be working on cloud platforms by next year. Steve Ballmer even went one step further when he said he was "betting the company" on the Windows Azure cloud platform. These are serious announcements and demonstrate how seriously he is taking threats from the likes of Amazon, Google and other cloud services vendors. Ballmer was presenting at the University of Washington's Computer Science... -
Big drop in fixed-line revenues Australians are dumping their fixed-lines at an alarming rate, 10% in the last six months to be exact. Local call volumes are down 13% for the same period and total PSTN revenues dropped by 6.9%. The decline was far greater than that forecast by CEO, David Thodey, only six months ago and could be indicative of what is certainly becoming a trend in most developed markets. Pure fixed-line service providers are likely to be hardest hit as customers consolidate on mobile... -
Mondays are usually quiet news days but this week it’s definitely ‘bad news day’ with a number of stories highlighting security issues. You can never be sure that it’s because there are more security glitches happening these days or because we are being more open about them. The first was an announcement by European Commission (EC) following a phishing attack which allowed cyber criminals to steal account data, and perform a number of fraudulent transactions. Individual emails were sent to users...
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