Quaking in your shoes . . . . Google Drive commeth?
Yes, perhaps you have seen the smattering of articles as the tech-a-ratti blogosphere, Techcrunch, Engadget crew comes to life and gear up for the latest Cloud launch set to occur. This time from the mighty and omnipotent Googleplex – Google Drive and a slick new video. One of the recent articles that got my attention…
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Advice to device makers: software or bust
Last week there was a great write up over at TechCrunch posted by Erick Schonfeld from the Kindle Fire announcement and Jeff Bezos’ keynote earlier this week. Though much of the focus in the press is on the Kindle Fire as an ‘iPad Killer’ the launch of this device is really more about furthering the…
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Who will win the content cloud battle: Amazon, Apple, Google, operators, device makers, etc?
When Apple officially threw its hat into the ‘content cloud’ services ring with their iCloud announcement, it capped a trifecta of launches from the leading over-the-top (OTT) players: Apple iCloud, Google Music and Amazon CloudDrive. What does this mean for mobile operators, OEM device makers and the direct-to-consumer (D2C) players?
Verizon Wireless keeps on innovating V CAST™ Media Manager
Verizon Wireless recently released the latest version of their V CAST™ Media Manager service, enabled by NewBay, with a set of great new features to further establish leadership in offering a rich digital content cloud service for subscribers on one of America’s fastest wireless networks. As Apple, Google and others continue to flounder in offering…
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Plethora of New Tablets at CES Accelerates the Push for HTML5-based Apps
Just about every other headline from the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) was about another new tablet coming to market. Media reports indicate that 75 tablets were introduced at the show. Like everyone else involved in the mobile/wireless/app dev community, we’ve been watched the deluge of tablet news at CES with great interest. In particular, we…
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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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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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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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