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Smart cities: The rise of new C-level executives
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Smart cities: The rise of new C-level executives
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TM Forum, QuEST Forum align to accelerate digital transformation
TM Forum has formed new strategic alliance with QuEST Forum to accelerate digital business transformation for communications service providers and technology suppliers, the company said. As the creators of TL 9000 quality management system, with performance benchmarking capabilities, QuEST Forum adds capabilities to TM Forum, focused on IT operations and management, customer exper
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Meet the new C-level executives born of smart cities
Startup-land is populated with vaguely named denizens like “data ninjas”, “digital sherpas” and “chief evangelists.” However, the fast-growing smart cities space is adding new C-suite roles to the executive roster that actually have meaning.Network World discussed some of the new smart city specialists that are appearing as advisors for governments that are leading t
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TM Forum: Amazon-Style Platform Business Model May Be Answer for Telco Video
Some major telecom service providers hope to use an Amazon-style platform to support a new approach to offering video content to end users, said Barry Graham, senior director of agile business and IT for technology association TM Forum, in an interview. Graham used the term platform business model to describe the Amazon-style approach.Amazon, he said, “started out selling their o
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Smart cities: The rise of new C-level executives
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Cities Cannot Be Reduced To Just Big Data And IoT: Smart City Lessons From Yinchuan, China
YINCHUAN – Cities are like Tolstoy’s families: each messed up in its own way. The new challenges urban conglomerates have to face and how to better address them were the main topics of discussion at theSmart City in Focus conference which took place in Yinchuan (China) a couple of weeks ago.If for Atlanta, Georgia, transportation and public safety are the top priorities to addr
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We’re Backing Bristol: Why Bristol is the city of the future
There are many reasons to celebrate Bristol. It's friendly, it's quirky; it has great shopping, scenery and a buzzing social scene.But, then, you could say that about many cities.One thing that really sets Bristol apart is that it is officially one of the UK's 'smartest' cities.We are said to be at the forefront of the digital revolution, with technology rapidly being developed to
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The end of apps: Conversational commerce begins deadly attack
Messenger is upping its chatbot game to allow in-app purchases of foreign products, encouraging users to stay in the Facebook ecosystem, never having to leave. WeChat is even further down that road. Is this the end of countless, niche apps?The end of apps is perhaps an overstatement, given Messenger and WeChat are themselves apps. But the migration towards hosting purchases from pa
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Good luck squeezing saturated market, Euro mobe firms, say Orange, Telefonica
Based profits on roaming charges? Too bad! Only the IoT-ist will surviveEurope's saturated mobile market is forcing operators to eye new routes to revenue in order to survive, big cheeses at Orange and Telefonica have said.Christian Maitre, CIO deputy of the Orange Group, and Juan José Hierro, head of Telefonica's newly created IoT unit were speaking to The Register at the TM Smar