The Connected Consumer Ecosystem War

“If I can operate Google, I can find anything… Google, combined with Wi-Fi, is a little bit like God. God is wireless, God is everywhere and God sees and knows everything. Throughout history, people connected to God without wires. Now, for many questions in the world, you ask Google, and increasingly, you can do it […] Read more »

Colt: Time For The Silver Bullet

­­­­Sometimes you look at a company and think: they seem to be doing all the right things but why doesn’t it work? During the Colt Influencer Event 2011 in London it seemed indeed that Colt has come a long way from its telecom days, transforming into a state of the art ICT network solution provider. […] Read more »

Customer Climate Change Hitting Dutch Telecom Operator

Tough times are ahead for (mobile) telecom operators. Yes, they knew it was coming, but the speed at which customers are embracing mobile VoIP and chat still surprised them. The measures Dutch telco KPN is forced to take should be a shot across the bow for operators across the globe. The METISfiles predicts a painful […] Read more »

Microsoft’s Cloud Ecosystem: Can Office 365 Migrate Partners To The Cloud?

Microsoft is stepping up its cloud efforts. During 2010, Steve Ballmer made a commitment to the cloud: “Microsoft invested $8.7 billion in R&D, with most of that devoted to cloud technologies. Today, 70 percent of Microsoft’s 40,000 engineers work on cloud-related products and services, in 2011 that number will grow to 90 percent.” With the […] Read more »