by Tony Poulos | Feb 21, 2013 | Blog
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... by Tony Poulos | Feb 18, 2013 | Blog
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,... by Tony Poulos | Feb 13, 2013 | Blog
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... by Tony Poulos | Feb 11, 2013 | Blog
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... by Tony Poulos | Feb 4, 2013 | Blog
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... by Tony Poulos | Jan 28, 2013 | Blog
It might just be time for CSPs worldwide to get serious, really serious about the threat to the traditional revenues from the likes of Skype, Facebook, Google and another thousand or so messaging and VOIP players nibbling away at their core revenues. Nothing, it... by Tony Poulos | Jan 23, 2013 | Blog
No doubt, you have all heard about the brilliant ‘software developer’, dubbed Bob, at a US-based critical infrastructure company that outsourced his job to China, but fell foul of his employer. To recap, this family man in his 40s hired developers in China to do his... by Tony Poulos | Jan 21, 2013 | Blog
While the ‘traditional’ mobile telecommunications operators struggle to come to grips with how best to capitalize on the growing machine-to-machine (M2M) sector, a potentially disruptive special interest group has emerged. It is driving usage of freely available... by Tony Poulos | Jan 17, 2013 | Blog
I have officially become a digital warrior. Traveling with one notebook, one tablet, two smartphones, a mini Wi-Fi router (so I can plug in to a hotel Ethernet connection and connect all those other devices), a pouch with three chargers, four connecting wires,... by Tony Poulos | Jan 15, 2013 | Blog
More information has come to light on a recent article about the strange goings on in French ISPs. The ‘feisty finger-pointing’ started when internet users reported a marked slow-down in delivery speeds from certain video sources, especially YouTube. Laurent Perche...