Cloud Vendor Taxonomy
The Cloud is here to stay. Already we are seeing stabilisation in the marketplace with some clear leaders emerging. Our Cloud Vendor Taxonomy chart is an attempt to delineate some of the relationships amongst the key players and also allow us to define new entrants. It’s not a hard and fast mapping (for instance OCCI…
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HTML5 White Paper Available for Download
NewBay’s white paper is a primer on HTML5. It explores key capabilities and how they can be leveraged for the benefit of both developers and end-users. The white paper explains: – What is HTML5 and why it is important – What HTML5 means for mobile apps – What HTML5 means for desktop…
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Part II: The Alphabet Soup of Industry Organizations and Operator Initiatives – Helpful or Hurtful?
This is Part II of my 24 Nov 2010 post – Part I: Can operators beat Google, Facebook and Apple at their own game? Operators usually only show unity when under threat or when they will benefit from working together. For example, we often see operator unity when dealing with technological decisions – in an…
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Smartphone Web App Development: A Challenging Environment Made Easier with HTML5
Most people typically own more than one “cloud-capable” device these days. I have a 4 year old Nokia phone that I don’t have the heart to replace, an Android smartphone and a laptop. I can access my content in the cloud from any one of these devices, and this is what users have come to…
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Embrace Change
Back in 1999 Kent Beck encouraged the Software Industry to “Embrace Change” and the agile programming revolution began. It takes a long time for Operators to embrace change. I have been helping Operators for the past seven years realise cloud-based consumer content and social networking services. I constantly encounter Operators who ask “What would Google…
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Video: Killing the Radio Stars
… well okay, the Radio Access Networks. Cats, dramatic gophers, finger-biting babies, crazy wedding dances, and even more cats: video is a form of User-Generated Content that deserves special attention: end users are generating and consuming more of it, from a diversifying set of devices, in higher definition, across a widening range of access networks….
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Optimizing Social Networking Services for Mobile Networks, Devices & Users
Services and applications originally/primarily created for fixed-line networks don’t automatically port efficiently to the wireless domain. They require optimization for each domain and for each screen. This is critical when looking to make services accessible from any screen (device), anywhere and at anytime. Over the last 6 months NewBay has worked hard on its mobile…
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Twitter’s Analytics Deal Supports Belief that Operators are Sitting on a Data ‘Gold Mine’
Twitter recently announced that outside developers will now be allowed to purchase access to 50% of all the messages that flow through its network. Twitter’s network supports more than 30 billion messages (Tweets) a year, Facebook users make over 25 billion status updates a year and operators’ networks will support over 200 trillion text messages…
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What makes for a successful cloud content service?
A couple of weeks ago I had the unusual pleasure of a positive experience on our capital’s public transport service. After spending 50 minutes on a bus and covering a staggering distance of 3.5 miles I rang the bell and headed for the door. As I stepped off the bus I heard a voice say…
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Part I: Can operators beat Google, Facebook and Apple at their own game?
Can operators beat Google, Facebook, Apple and other Internet pure-plays at their own game? I heard this question asked several times during two recent conferences that I attended: Telco 2.0* in Los Angeles, CA and the Open Mobile Summit* in San Francisco, CA . Below is a very high level comparison of operators’ market position…
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