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June 2011
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So Google has come up with its own Facebook killer, Google+. Let’s hope, for Google’s sake, that it is more popular than some of its more recent flops like Google Wave. Let’s also take into account that News Corp has finally unloaded the once doyen of social sites, Myspace, at a considerable loss. Early reports state that Google+ is a worthy competitor to Facebook but who in the world wants another big social networking portal to contend with. Sites like Facebook, once thought of... -
The telecoms industry as we know it is about to go through some massive changes, and some of them are going to be ugly, very ugly. A ‘colliding worlds’ scenario is taking shape in Europe that will have ramifications worldwide because it includes network operators, regulators, online content providers and a hapless public. The abridged story goes something like this. Ms Neelie Kroes, the European commissioner responsible for the European Union’s digital agenda, raised concerns that... -
The Insider is wondering if the results of a phone manners survey conducted by Telstra in Australia would apply in other countries. Read on and see if you feel the same behavior patterns are developing in your own markets. Hats off to Telstra for having the courage to run such a sensitive survey and then classify mobile phone users into categories that may be seen as less than flattering. The research showed that while traditional gripes such as talking loudly on public transport or using a mobile... -
Sony, Citi, Sega, CIA and the list grows daily. These are major operations that have had their online data compromised in the last few weeks and the world press seems to revel in reporting these lapses in security. At least it takes their attention away from 'bill shock', their other perennial favorite telco whipping horse. Although not directly involved with the latest round of breaches, the telecoms industry as a whole must be grimacing at the bad press it generates for any online services... -
The fanfare that invariably accompanies a public appearance of Apple CEO, Steve Jobs, has finally died down. Amongst the slew of announcements at Apple’s World Wide Developer Conference 2011 on June 6 were a number that may have a profound effect on CSPs worldwide, especially those in the mobile/wireless network space. Perhaps the most surprising new feature revealed during the keynotes was iMessage, a real-time messaging service that lets iOS users send texts, photos and videos to other iOS... -
If you have a need for speed in motor cars you buy a high performance motor with the associated price tag. You don’t expect to buy a Ferrari with a Fiat budget, right? And if you want economy motoring, you pay less for a less powerful motor, save money on gas and drive around sedately. So why do mobile broadband customers think things are different for them? It can mainly be put down to mobile operators being so keen to drive data revenues by offering uncapped, all-you-can-eat plans at a time... -
Thriving in very tough conditions is something the PC and the associated chip industry has endured since it took off in the early 1980s. Indeed Moore’s Law (which can be summed up as a constant cycle of being forced to provide more for less money through innovation and falling costs) was coined in 1965 by Intel’s Co-founder Gordon E. Moore. It is frequently applied to the provision of mobile broadband particularly in the communications industry. Intriguing, then, that Intel is making... -
One of the high points of my Management World experience was participation in a discussion group of very senior managers, which included Nick Heller from Google. Nick was kind enough to share Google’s 9 Principles of Innovation. Surprisingly, few participants picked up on this well-reasoned list, so I thought it useful to post them here to a broader audience. Now before you tag the Insider as a “Google fan boy”, or suggest that I’m really an “Outsider” for praising... -
With so many buzzwords being thrown around at Management World 2011 in Dublin last week, you couldn’t go very far before ‘cloud,’ ‘analytics,’ ‘customer experience,’ ‘smart grid’ and ‘convergence’ came up and hit you in the head. But interestingly, it was a decidedly lower-key set of buzzwords that seemed to bubble up to the surface as the week went along. For all the talk of cloud services and monetizing this or that – important...
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