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Northern Lights: Arctic Fiber Nets Open New Bandwidth Horizon
Big data is driving the need for big networks – networks that can shave milliseconds off transmission times. What would you pay to save 20 milliseconds? Two trans-oceanic projects are betting you’ll...
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Telcos: Horse-Breeders Of The New Mobile Age?
Following the invention of the car in 1884, Kaiser Wilhelm II famously said, “I regard the automobile as a temporary phenomenon. I prefer to bet on a horse”. Take a look into your garage to see how...
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Why Text Messaging Still Thrives Despite Smartphones, Twitter And WhatsApp
The tech industry attracts the worst kind of futurists, Clayton Christensen-quoting types who behold shifting paradigms, looming inflection points and disruptive innovations everywhere they look. The...
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Visualize Your Big Data: A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words
What is big data? There are many definitions and opinions about this topic, but most agree that it has three main characteristics, namely volume, velocity, and variety. A recently published Gartner...
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Machine-to-Machine Communications Will Generate Really Big Data
Wireless communications carriers may soon be faced with an unprecedented dilemma: Will they give preference on their networks to people chatting and texting on their mobile devices or to things...
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Big Data: A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words
By Rani Goel, Senior Director, Analytics Product Marketing, SAP A lot of ink has been spilled relating to big data; countless articles, blog posts and discussions are about how data is growing by leaps...
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Telcos: Social Aggregators Of The New Mobile Age
Do you remember the last time you used a phone booth? I wouldn’t if it had not been last week. In search of a dry place to roll a cigarette in rainy London, I passed one of those signature red...
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Big Data Could Become Big Business For Telcos
Mobile operators are getting into the business of aggregating and selling customer data to advertisers. Is there a way to scale Telco big data, or are they trying to harness the ocean? Your mobile...
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The Massive M2M Business Opportunity for Telcos
By Jens Amail, SVP for Service Industries, SAP Telcos are sitting on a gold mine of core capabilities and assets, critical for M2M success. In addition to just network connectivity, they have...
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Reinventing The Phone Company: The M2M Revolution Has Arrived
The telecommunications industry has come a long way since Lily Tomlin’s iconic skit of telephone operator Ernestine accurately captured the frustrating experience of most customers. Savvy...
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2013 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) Released
If all the news we shared with you last week on the legislative activity on cybersecurity has you looking for more this week, we call your attention to the release of Verizon’s sixth annual Data Breach...
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Proximity Marketing. Waiting Is Not Innovating.
You are at a bus stop. The timetable says the next bus arrives in 5 minutes. You wait for 10 minutes. No bus in sight. Another 10 minutes. The bus is overdue for 15 minutes now. What do you do? Keep...
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Toll Fraud: A Network And Security Threat
Recently I asked this question as it became a front-of-mind topic of discussion around my peers, colleagues, and clients and it appears toll-fraud is still one of the largest IT security threats many...
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Abandoning Fixed Telephone Lines For Mobile
New mobile devices and apps continue to chip away at the reasons for keeping fixed telephone lines. I have some relatives who have half-retired from the UK back to rural Ireland, where the houses don’t...
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Telecoms, Mind the Gap
Much has been talked about all the opportunities telecoms have missed during the last decade. Controlling the infrastructure of the Internet, the industry was not able to fully monetize their strategic...
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Moore’s Law Is Coming to an End: So What?
If you’re reading this, you’ve probably already heard of Moore’s law, the observation that every two years, the number of transistors we’re able to fit on a given silicon chip doubles. This allows...
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4G Or Not 4G? That Is The Branding
Occasionally we marketeers can get a wee bit carried away, particularly when it comes to technical specs. For example, in the consumer digital camera space, there was an arms race for highest number...
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Let’s Talk About IPX
Back in March of this year, I did a three-part series on long-term evolution (LTE), one part of which I devoted to operators and their various motivations for launching LTE. Now, it’s time to talk...
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Are Mobile Networks Losing The Race?
Back in the day when I worked at Logica Mobile Networks (back at the turn of the century), we provided (mobile) network elements to mobile operators. Initially these were core network elements, AUC,...
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This Week in Tech: Facebook’s Private Messages, T-Mobile’s New Approach, and...
This week in tech showed ups and downs for big companies – one facing a major lawsuit while another is working to right a serious wrong. In addition, we see companies creating ways to restructure and...
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