Google pays Apple $1bn – network operators get ?
Surprise, surprise! Google pays Apple $1 billion per annum to make sure it is the default search engine on all those millions of iOS devices out there. Money for jam you might say? After all, what other search engine could Apple promote as their default? Oh yes, there’s Bing, but that belongs to the other [...]
Facebook gets voice, telcos go mute
It might just be time for CSPs worldwide to get serious, really serious about the threat to the traditional revenues from the likes of Skype, Facebook, Google and another thousand or so messaging and VOIP players nibbling away at their core revenues. Nothing, it appears, is sacred in the rush for OTT players to offer [...]
What Steve Jobs has taught the telecoms industry.
OK, enough is enough. We all know Steve Jobs has resigned as Apple CEO and we’ve been inundated with stories and theories about what will happen at Apple in his absence. My personal favorite headline of the last week was ‘Jobs exit opens door for nimble Apple rivals’ and from Reuters, no less! What nimble [...]
Apple eating humble pie? Hardly!
The headlines all concur, Nokia wins the patent battle with Apple, but the real facts around the settlement may never come fully to light. That’s because neither party had anything to gain by continuing expensive litigation. Any loss of face by Apple and bottom line gains by Nokia will likely be short lived. I’m afraid [...]
Apple violating my privacy? What bloody privacy?
Apple featured big in this week’s headlines. Firstly for its seemingly endless sales and profit performances and secondly for its ‘evil’ activities recording every iPhone’s location history in hidden file. Or course, the amount of evil actually being perpetrated depends on which news story you read. If you happen to have missed all the hoo-hah, [...]
Nokia vs Apple – Round 1 to Apple
You will no doubt recall that soon after it was apparent to Nokia that Apple’s wildly successful iPhone was going to impact its potential earnings it instigated legal proceedings against Apple for infringing no less than ten Nokia patents on mobile phone technology. That was in December 2009. “The patents cover wireless data, speech coding, [...]
Technology meets its match
Veteran English comics, Ronnie Corbett and Harry Enfield, give technology the ‘once over’ in this fabulous skit from the BBC.
Rumours vs Reality – predictions ‘slated’ here
The world’s news portals are awash with stories about electronic book readers (eReaders), tablet PCs and a top-secret device, supposedly called the iSlate, coming from Apple. So strong are the Apple rumours that competitors have been rushing their own iSlate killers onto the market in anticipation.
‘Apple Pie’ or ‘Poisoned Apple’ – Nokia to take first bite
I don’t know if it’s politically correct to call Christmas and New Year the ‘silly season’ but after reviewing headline news from the telco industry over the holiday period it would be fair to say that the plum pudding probably had a little to much brandy in it. Maybe we should swap to ‘Apple pie’ [...]
Another Apple Masterclass.
The App Store saga continues. Apple’s online iPhone applications outlet has reportedly delivered more than 60 million programs in its first month of operation. Not bad considering the teething problems Apple suffered in the early days of operation. Read article…