| January 2010 - The Insider -
Have you ever read something that is so obvious you wonder why you hadn’t thought if it yourself? After reading a newly released list of 2010 Predictions from Deloitte for the coming year in our industry, you come away wondering why you’re not charging $1,500 an hour for consulting because you’d thought of it already but never bothered to write it down! Amongst a list a really quite exciting predictions I took umbrage to one that said the smartphone would continue to thrive in 2010. Blow me down... -
It's Friday, and for many it's been a tough week battling adverse weather and preparing for TAW in Lisbon or MW Asia in Singapore . Here's some interesting and sometimes bizarre news generated from our own industry sector. Enjoy... French campaign to abolish piracy caught pirating The French agency tasked with enforcing strict anti-piracy regulations has been left severely embarrassed after the revelation that its logo contains pirated material.
The Hadopi agency unveiled its new logo... -
Indications are that we are emerging from 'the recession we had to have'. If that's truly the case then 2010 could be quite a year for telecommunications investment in infrastructure and systems. According to IDC, two themes will dominate events in the ICT markets in 2010 - recovery and transformation. And these are two areas the TM Forum has been concentrating its own efforts on. Members not already well positioned to take advantage of the IDC predictions will not have to look far to... -
Amdocs today announced the results of an independent survey that explores how service providers are planning for the evolution of the connected world. It is predicted that trillions of devices will be connected to the network by the year 2017, and that this “connected world” will be driven by the hyper-growth in demand for ubiquitous connectivity, information anytime, anywhere and smarter connected devices. The survey identified the technology challenges, business models and partnerships that service... -
The world’s news portals are awash with stories about electronic book readers (eReaders), tablet PCs and a top-secret device, supposedly called the iSlate, coming from Apple. So strong are the Apple rumours that competitors have been rushing their own iSlate killers onto the market in anticipation. At the recent CES extravaganza in Las Vegas where all the new gizmos come out, even Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer, joined the bandwagon flashing, ever so briefly, a tablet thing from HP. Not that anybody... -
A surprising new study in mice , led by University of South Florida, provides the first evidence that long-term exposure to electromagnetic waves associated with cell phone use may actually protect against, and even reverse, Alzheimer's disease. The researchers showed that exposing old Alzheimer's mice to electromagnetic waves generated by cell phones erased brain deposits of the harmful protein beta-amyloid, in addition to preventing the protein's build-up in younger Alzheimer's... -
Forget your iPhones and your Nexus Ones if you really want to be hip and healthy you should get hold of a new Seal Cell phone which is reportedly dishwasher proof. I bet many of you have been waiting for a phone like this but didn't know why, read on. If you’ve accidentally dropped your mobile into the dishwasher only to discover it the next day in a very sad state, this will be the phone for you. The makers are claiming that this is the world's first cell phone to be washable AND antimicrobial... -
I don't know if it's politically correct to call Christmas and New Year the ‘silly season’ but after reviewing headline news from the telco industry over the holiday period it would be fair to say that the plum pudding probably had a little to much brandy in it. Maybe we should swap to ‘Apple pie’ for next year. I say this tongue in cheek, of course, but Apple was definitely the most consistent headline grabber in 2009 and started this year with a bang as well. Just before Christmas, the... -
Last year at this time I wrote that I was not one for predicting the future , but I didn’t mind attempting to influence it, within my reasonable means. Every new year we seem to be overwhelmed with what some people believe will occur in the coming twelve months, some of it so obvious ‘blind Freddy’ would see it coming, and others so way out we discard them immediately as the ravings of a mad prophet. And at this time last year, most predictions were downright depressing. They all revolved around...
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