Feeling insecure? Therapy won't help.

Hackers have had a big week. US claims that the Chinese military is allegedly hacking into US corporations and actively enticing the country’s best hackers to join up is one thing, but when hackers try to break into Facebook, that’s a real national emergency. Don’t...

Walls collapse in the home of walled-gardens

The three major Japanese mobile-phone service providers in the home of ‘walled-gardens’ are making their smartphone content offerings available to rival companies’ customers as they focus more on content services, the Nikkei reported this week. That may...

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,...

Telstra throttles, world watches

Newspapers in Australia report that Telstra is making a bold move to ‘throttle’ or slow the speed at which its ADSL customers download content through peer-to-peer (P2P) networks in peak periods as part of a trial. TM Forum members present at Management World in...

Living in a lead-lined cave

Ovum’s latest survey into consumer concerns about privacy and use of personal data may just be the tip of the iceberg. As more disclosures of data collection and storage become public knowledge, the backlash may throw many organizations that rely on the sale of this...

Big data, big deal?

I have to admit to being one of the unconvinced that big data was anything more than just a fancy name for data analytics and business intelligence (BI) or a great excuse for suppliers to sell more software and boxes. However, after two days at TM Forum’s Big Data...