Archive for the ‘Telecom’ Category
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
Nokia announced today a bid to acquire 100% of Symbian. Nokia already owns 48% of the shares, and would purchase the remaining shares for 264 million euro, from their current Symbian partners Sony Ericsson, Telefonaktiebolaget, LM Ericsson, Panasonic Mobile Communications, Siemens International Holding and Samsung Electronics.
Even though it may seem ...
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Monday, June 23rd, 2008
"It is the usability, stupid."
In essence, Nokia keeps developing mobile phones, when younger generations do not care about a phone but about communications in an ample sense (IM, Facebook, web, etc) and multimedia (music, music , music, clips and music). And they do not want multimedia to be a poor ...
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Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
Internet and Software companies know it well: mass adoption comes first, revenues will come later. It is what Chris Anderson calls Freeconomics. When the marginal cost of every new subscriber is close to zero, free is the way to go: Freemium, Ads or Cross-subsidize models can later monetize a massive ...
Posted in Media & New Economy, Telecom | 1 Comment »
Monday, June 16th, 2008
Mac, coolness: the choice of the artist and the MBA. Style, simplicity, less features but works flawlessly, usability on the top, identify with brand, price premium. The right brain decides.
Ubuntu, openness: the choice of the engineer and the geek. Features, features, features, beta versions, open to add more features, ...
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Thursday, June 12th, 2008
At $199 and with mandatory flat data rates, millions of iPhones 3G will soon boost the data traffic of UMTS networks. Om Malik wonders whether AT&T UMTS network will be up to the task, specially as the interest on video (YouTube) from iPhone users will grow with 3G.
An UMTS network has two ...
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Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
We have lived enough IT history to know that reality has exceeded Moore's Law prediction of computers doubling capacity every 18 months. In fact, the period is now close to 12 months.
Following this exponential growth these are the specs for a $1500 Laptop in 2018, and some accessories:
Microprocessor number of Cores: ...
Posted in IT, Internet, TOP Popular Posts, Telecom | 3 Comments »
Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
The iPhone Revolution goes on, only faster.
No more “wait for 3G” effect. Half the price. Going truly global to 70 countries. Built-in Wifi and GPS. Do not be surprised when Apple double their forecast and sell 20 million units in 2008.
Apple wants to achieve full dominance of the mobile phone. ...
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Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
Rumors confirmed. Apple announced the iPhone 3G. It will be available in 22 countries on 11 July and more than 70 countries by the end of the year. In US, the 8GB version will cost $199 and the 16GB only $299. Both have built-in GPS.
The entire keynote of Steve Jobs ...
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Friday, June 6th, 2008
Building a broadband network based on Fiber-To-The-Home (FTTH) is a big investment. Once the fiber is deployed Telcos usually offer IPTV as one of the main revenue generating services to pay-back the investment.
Some Telcos argue that once they put all this huge capacity available to the user, anyone ...
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Thursday, June 5th, 2008
Defenders of Metered Broadband argue that other Utilities such as Electricity and Water are all charged based on usage: The more Watts-hour you consume the more you pay. So why not the same for broadband: the more gigabytes you download, the more you pay. Yet there is a big difference. ...
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