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July 2011
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The Insider -
It has been a few weeks since Google+ appeared and was made available to a selected number by special invitation from Google itself. Not surprisingly, the Insider was not one of them. It appears that those taking up the ‘challenge’ were able to invite others and within weeks the number of Google+ users has reportedly swelled to 20+ million in just three weeks. As Google’s answer to Facebook, Google+ exhibits many remarkably similar traits and, as one would hope, avoids many of the... -
With all the coverage The Insider has given to privacy issues you would think he was obsessed by it. It started with Google’s Street View Wi-Fi data collection exercise , then people unknowingly exposing themselves on Facebook , the Sony/Citi/CIA site hacking , followed by Apple’s location tracking drama and, most recently, with headline news about phone hacking and pinging . It seems my ‘Big Brother’ complex and a morbid fear that the telecoms industry may join the ranks... -
First we had to endure the discomfort of phone ‘hacking’ revelations brought to light by the News of the World (NotW) demise. Now find that illegal ‘pinging’ is rife and it could well get some operators into strife. ‘Pinging’, by the way, is the locating of mobile phone’s position using cell tower triangulation. Yes, many CSPs offer this as an LBS (Location Based Service), but the level of location tracking ‘pinging’ refers to is usually reserved... -
I received an interesting email this week from Randy Fuller, director of strategic marketing officer at Tekelec, a telecoms software provider. He was recapping the news that three of Europe’s largest telecoms operators had held a summit with the European Union (EU) to discuss targets to improve broadband speeds across the continent by 2020. As we know, serious capital investment on behalf of the operators is required if the EU is to achieve its targets. The operators would argue that in order... -
It seems that the telecommunications labor market is always in a state of flux – either too many people and not enough jobs or too many jobs and not enough people. If we had employment surveys centered on the telecoms sector, similar to those that economists use to determine national employment rates, it would be interesting to see what the optimum situation would be and how the industry is fairing. Commsday reports that in Australia, “diverse sectors of the telco industry are rallying... -
Yet again, world headlines are highlighting a perceived problem with mobile communications, and they have it all wrong. I refer to the demise of the UK’s News of the World gossip rag brought about by a ‘phone hacking’ scandal. When anyone hears about ‘hacking,’ they automatically think of nerdy computer types, or people with a severe, grievance illegally accessing websites and causing all sorts of mischief, including the theft and distribution of once-secure information... -
It was bound to happen. We now have a new disorder to tell our friends about and maybe even get time off work with. It doesn’t have a real name yet but it should be dubbed SNO for ‘Social Networking Overload.’ Telecoms Europe reports that a study by a team of University of Cambridge researchers suggests technology fatigue is setting in, with one in three people feeling the need to escape messaging and social network services. The research , conducted on behalf of BT, found a fairly...
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