Archive for the ‘Telecom’ Category
Friday, September 12th, 2008
The previous post might have look pessimistic about telcos when defining the future of telecom as "Clouds and Pipes (and Toys)". In reality, it is just an analogy to describe what is already happening with "Over-The-Top" players delivering applications and services through Internet telco's infrastructure with more and more intelligent ...
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Tuesday, September 9th, 2008
Internet is the paradigm of next generation communications. One of the wonders of Internet is that it allows to de-couple Services/Applications from the access network. e.g. Anyone still uses the email or hosting services from your broadband access supplier? Most people prefer these Services independent from the broadband provider. One ...
Posted in Internet, Media & New Economy, Telecom | 3 Comments »
Friday, August 29th, 2008
Although many predict WiMAX failure almost before it is born, the reality is that WiMAX is far from dead.
Emerging markets (Africa, India, South East Asia or Latin America) have such a lack of proper fixed broadband that WiMAX becomes a cost effective alternative to ADSL, with the additional value ...
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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 ...
Posted in Digital Lifestyle, Telecom | 1 Comment »
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, ...
Posted in TOP Popular Posts, Telecom | 3 Comments »
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. ...
Posted in Digital Lifestyle, Telecom | 1 Comment »
