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Are you a firm believer in the good government and its self acclaimed right to sift through your communication in order to protect you from terrorists whenever they see fit? Or do you think governments have nothing to do with your personal stuff and can only do so with a court order? It is a […] Read more »
While Mexican operator America Movil has announced plans to launch a full takeover bid for KPN, privately held Dutch Nimbuzz could be about to become an Indian mobile operator. The two companies could not be more different, although both facilitate communications. KPN’s heritage dates back a hundred years at least. KPN owns (essential) network infrastructure […] Read more »
Nothing beats printed paper when it comes to the quality of reading. But quality has long since become an overrated feature in electronics. The e-ink reader has failed to become a mass medium despite its superior reading experience. Instead the electronic device of choice for reading and browsing is the tablet. Sub 100 Euro price […] Read more »
Back in 2011 we published four scenarios predicting the uptake rate of public cloud computing (SaaS, PaaS and IaaS) in Europe. The scenarios we plotted were based on the extremes of what we believe are the two most important aspects governing future cloud uptake: availability and trust. Our own Dutch Enterprise Public Cloud Spending forecast […] Read more »
There is a new WiFi wave reminiscent of the optimism in the last decade when the public wireless hotspot startup phenomenon was in its heydays. I am referring to it as Big WiFi, because some of the new wave providers’ focus on WiFi coupled with social (big) data and advertising and the ambitions of most […] Read more »
Well, yes, and for quite some time already as became resoundingly clear after NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden came clean in the Guardian. He was bugged because he “does not want to live in a world where everything I do and say is recorded”. Kudos to Edward for carrying out the biggest intelligence leak in a […] Read more »