Small 'mistake' for Google, big problem for the rest of us

I don’t intend to dwell on the story that Google ‘accidentally’ collected 600GB of data from unsecured Wi-Fi networks in 30 countries while out taking photographs for its Street View mapping service. Nor the fact that technical details revealed in a Google audit could...

Telus CTO 'on the money' with billing comments

Either Telus CTO, Ibrahim Gedeon, is an avid reader of my blogs or he is a brilliant man in his own right (probably the latter). At this week’s B/OSS Billing and OSS Conference being held in Washington, DC he said that telecom network operators needed to be more open...

Please Mr Jobs, slow down, we can't keep up!

Please forgive me, I’m going to talk about Apple again. Yes, you’ve probably all heard about the iPhone 4 and how it’s the thinnest, smartest, most beautiful, well-designed, remarkably constructed consumer device ever produced. And that’s only...

Billing ain’t what it used to be

Metratech’s CTO, Doug Zone outlines how billing for cloud services requires new methodology and the concept of ‘dynamic billing’ where price can vary according to demand are the future of billing.

The feast is over – compulsory dieting begins now

All the signals were there and now it’s actually happening. AT&T is the first of what will certainly be a flurry of operators that will start phasing out those yummy ‘all you can eat’ packages for mobile data. AT&T will no longer offer new customers its...