Lost opportunity – telcos stuck on sidelines

MMA CEO, Greg Stuart, says telcos are in danger of being left out of billion-dollar marketing-advertising space because it’s not ‘big enough to matter now’ . Hundreds of billions of dollars available if telcos ‘pay attention’.

European operators ‘playing possum’?

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...

How's the weddar?

Startling images and videos taken by mobile phones then broadcast to the internet within seconds of an event are a sign of these social networking times. News services not only welcome contributions from the public they are willing to pay for them. Gone are the days...

Cloud be nimble, cloud be quick…..

My last 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...