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...

Clouds rain on Amazon

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...

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...

Sharing sense & sensibility

First it was infrastructure sharing in markets as diverse as India and Indonesia where sensibility has outweighed competitive senselessness. The simple concept of sharing base station facilities and antenna masts will save operators millions of dollars per annum....