by Tony Poulos | Mar 9, 2011 | Blog
One of the great joys, and most under-rated features, of the iPhone when it first launched was the ability to update its operating systems and firmware via iTunes. If, like me, you had bought one or more mobile ‘lemons’ over the years, that had to be returned to a... by Tony Poulos | Mar 8, 2011 | Blog
For some strange reason, I was under the impression that most CSPs generally aspired to one-second billing and this was pretty much the world standard. Apparently, I have been totally misled, according to reports out of Australia. The Age newspaper today ran a story... by Tony Poulos | Mar 4, 2011 | Blog
Facebook is hot, but I’m going cold on it. Maybe it’s an age thing, but the buzz has waned to the point of disinterest. News that almost half the UK population now uses Facebook, 30 million, is mind-boggling. What is even more daunting is that more than half of... by Tony Poulos | Feb 25, 2011 | Blog
The perennial doomsters warning against mobile phone usage and links to brain damage have raised their ugly heads (no pun intended), once again. This time it is no less than the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) which has found that 50 minutes of... by Tony Poulos | Feb 24, 2011 | Blog
When embattled Australian mobile operator, Vodafone Australia (VHA) experienced major network issues late last year its CEO told the market it was due to ‘temporary software bugs’. When its customers rallied behind one Adam Brimo who set up a website to vent his... by Tony Poulos | Feb 22, 2011 | Blog
Reprint of article that appeared in Telecom Asia Feb 15, 2011: When a telco hits the headlines it is usually bad press. When it brushes aside the issues raised and comes up with feeble excuses, it becomes the target of even more bad press and, in the case of Vodafone... by Tony Poulos | Feb 21, 2011 | Videos
Sybase’s Raj Nathan knows how proactive corporations are increasing revenue and reducing costs using mobile enterprise applications. You might be surprised. by Tony Poulos | Feb 18, 2011 | Videos
Cisco’s Jeff White announces the launch of strategic framework for mobile operators that includes the Videoscape experience, Adaptive Intelligent Routing and an outdoor Wi-Fi antenna that manages 3G and 4G offloads on the wifi network. by Tony Poulos | Feb 17, 2011 | Blog
This is Barcelona week and you are probably fed up to the teeth with press releases and news emanating from this Catalonian stronghold. The Insider has spent a lot of time talking to delegates, press people and exhibitionists (I think that’s the right term for the... by Tony Poulos | Feb 11, 2011 | Blog
The official Nokia blog says it is now official – Nokia is getting hitched to Microsoft! You have to love the joint announcement so soon after the so-called ‘leaked memo’ from Nokia CEO, and supposedly ex-Microsoft man, Stephen Elop. The rhetoric is pure...