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Whilst the world’s leading journalists pontificate on the damage Amazon’s Kindle Fire will cause Apple, Google, Android, RIM, et al, The Insider is more worried about the damage it could do to the telecoms industry. For those of you that have managed to avoid all the press on the subject let me summarize that Amazon has just released a veritable arsenal of color Kindles, one thinly disguised as a tablet, set to blow the market apart. With the Kindle Touch (starting at $99), a regular... -
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 Insider’s blog on Amazon’s cloud mishap was certainly not intended to scare off would-be cloud customers but the episode most certainly scared some off those enterprises directly affected. The lessons learnt for this fledgeling sector should be invaluable especially to the relative new-comers in the form of CSPs offering IaaS, PaaS, CaaS and SaaS. Carol Wilson, from Light Reading put it most eloquently when she wrote, “that telecom service providers also face a real challenge... -
If you were hoping to access Reddit, Quora, FourSquare, Hootsuite, SCVNGR, Heroku, Wildfire, parts of the New York Times, ProPublica and about 70 other sites last Thursday, you may have been out of luck. It was also no fault of their own that they went offline, some for up to 36 hours, it was a cloud problem. More specifically, a problem with Amazon's cloud services otherwise known as Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute or EC2. Nevertheless, Amazon's damage control has kept the news pretty quiet... -
Amazon’s ignominious dumping of WikiLeaks as a customer almost went unnoticed, except by The Insider , and a few others, including the venerable Wall Street Journal. Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman, chairman of the Senate Homeland Security committee had contacted Amazon after accusing WikiLeaks of illegal, outrageous and reckless acts, compromising national security and putting scores of lives at risk. At the time, Senator Lieberman said that he would be asking Amazon about the extent of... -
The great WikiLeaks scandal has less to do with the publication of state secrets sent as cables from US Embassies around the world and their supposed threat to national security and more with how the secrets got out in the first place. Whatever the motives of WikiLeaks ‘founder, Julian Assange, he has single-handily made a mockery of the so-called secureness of top secret information. Without wishing to get into the pros and cons of whether his actions are right or wrong, the fact is that he... -
While CSPs worldwide grapple with how to monetize their services it appears that many ‘over the top’ or OTT players continue to grow their mobile revenues. Amazon.com is the latest to announce record results with generated revenues of $1 billion from mobile purchases during the last 12 months. CEO Jeff Bezos revealed this during the Amazon's Q2 earnings release, and stressed the importance of mobile phones and tablet computers in the company's future plans but he did not mention the role... -
For those of you who live in the US, the thought of receiving an Amazon Kindle 2 for Christmas may seem run of the mill. After all, Amazon’s PR machine has been working hard to ensure we all know that the Kindle was a hot gadget of the 2009 holiday season. But for those of us living in Europe, the Kindle remains a new and rare commodity. Launched in October, Amazon’s Kindle ‘International Edition’ is nothing more than a Kindle which has been shipped outside the US. It doesn’t even have a European... -
If service providers aren’t quick to grab onto new business models and start monetizing them, they may get overrun by the over-the-top guys who will find ways of circumventing them and leaving them to pick up the pieces. What a busy industry we work in. The range of hot topics keep surfacing like cloud services, smart phones, net neutrality, mobile app stores and over-the-top services as well as continued buzz from LTE and WiMax keeps on coming. Of course, these are increasingly facets of the same...
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