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It seems The Insider is not the only one ‘frightened by Facebook’. You may recall reading about his fears way back in March of this year, but it now seems others are feeling the same way. In an article published over the weekend in Australia’s ‘National Times’, deputy editor Julian Lee spared no punches in his assessment of Facebook’s growing power as an information gatherer. He wrote, “If Facebook was a government agency, its power would be as undisputed... -
So, we are being led to believe that we are predominantly going online to watch videos and indulge in social networking, right? Well, not quite. According to the latest Pew Internet Project report in June, our predominant online use is for good old email and search. Yes, good old email. Not quite as archaic as its dinosaurian predecessor, ‘snail mail’, 92 per cent of adults who go online use email, with 61 per cent using it on an average day. Search accounts for similar figures with 92... -
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... -
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 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... -
The rumor mill has been running overtime this last week in the telecoms industry. Perhaps the most prominent, and certainly the most vocal are those claiming that Skype is about to be acquired - AGAIN! You will remember back in October 2005 that Skype’s private shareholders enjoyed a big payout when Skype was first bought over by eBay in a deal worth approximately $2.6 billion, plus potential ‘performance-based consideration.’ In September 2009 , in a deal that valued Skype at ... -
Intense competition in the telecoms space has become the norm since the heady days of deregulation and arrival of wireless networks. Firstly between competing technologies such of CDMA and GSM and then with the intense battle for handset dominance that made Motorola, Nokia and Sony-Ericsson household names. Competition in the personal computing and IT world has been no less frenetic, but it was dominated very early by Microsoft's operating system with the main competition coming from hardware... -
Fixed-line and mobile operators in Europe are facing quite a dilemma. On the one hand they are being pressured by European Commissioner Neelie Kroes to improve their network broadband speeds and capacity and that they are not investing enough to meet EU targets. On the other, their customers are wanting to use their internet connections for more and more bandwidth-hungry applications, especially video, and not have to pay extra for the privilege. Betwixt the two are the over the top (OTT) players... -
One of the great joys, and most under-rated features, of the iPhone when it first launched was the ability to update its operating systems and firmware via iTunes. If, like The Insider, you had bought one or more mobile ‘lemons’ over the years, that had to be returned to a ‘service centre’ for reprogramming, you’ll know exactly what I mean. Despite the iTunes umbilical cord, it meant that an iPhone owner could always choose to have the latest and greatest, for at least...
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