by Tony Poulos | Feb 23, 2009 | Videos
I had the dubious honour of waiting backstage at this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona to interview keynote speakers as they came off stage. This news report contains a few of them including actor/director Kevin Spacey, MySpace CEO –... by Tony Poulos | Feb 13, 2009 | Blog
I’m betting that Steve Ballmer will use his keynote address at the world’s leading mobile event next week in Barcelona to make a surprise announcement that Microsoft will be releasing a brand new mobile operating system to compete with Android and the... by Tony Poulos | Feb 11, 2009 | Blog
SingTel Corporation of Singapore has announced it’s quarterly and year-to-date financial results. The headline story is a drop in profits but, behind the bad news there are some compelling positives that are significant indicators for the industry in general and... by Tony Poulos | Feb 5, 2009 | Blog
If there was any doubt that the rash of smartphone introductions over the last was having an effect on mobile data traffic, the figures speak for themselves. Read article… by Tony Poulos | Feb 3, 2009 | Blog
Despite Apple’s success at rolling out the iPhone via its mobile operator partner channels, it hasn’t had everything its own way. One of the iPhone’s much-vaunted features – Visual Voicemail – has been studiously ignored by many operators even though they... by Tony Poulos | Feb 2, 2009 | Blog
Femtocells may become a serious part of the mobile infrastructure over the next few years. We’ve covered the standards and the theory, but with Singapore’s StarHub having launched service, we can now bring you one of the first, independent femto... by Tony Poulos | Jan 19, 2009 | Blog
Taiwan and China have the highest incidences of using the mobile phone in the loo, where 68 per cent and 66 per cent of users, respectively, admit that they do so. Read article… by Tony Poulos | Jan 9, 2009 | Blog
The following interesting story comes out of Telecoms.com recently titled: ‘Fixed-web services billed on mobile emerge as revenue stream’. The article states that purchase of virtual goods on fixed-internet sites is emerging as one of the strongest growth areas in... by Tony Poulos | Jan 8, 2009 | Blog
Will telecom suffer the fate of other industries or make it through the economic downturn in one piece? I’m not one for predicting the future, but I don’t mind attempting to influence it, within my reasonable means. Every new year we seem to be overwhelmed with what... by Tony Poulos | Dec 16, 2008 | Blog
Australia has a history producing and exporting a few great movies and rather too many not-so-great TV soap operas. Our success may be down to a certain curiosity factor that attracts overseas viewers to the accents and inventive slang we use and the quirky social...