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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 »
We wrote about the InterCloud before, defining it as a globally interconnected data center grid offering elastic store and compute capabilities. The most prominent builders of the InterCloud today are Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Rackspace. They are all building general purpose global clouds with a focus on elasticity (see Figure below) and providing APIs for […] Read more »
Cap Gemini recently released a study on identifying new revenue streams for fixed and mobile telcos. The report analyzed three verticals: healthcare, energy, and automotive. It can be downloaded here (free, but registration required). The report argues that telcos are forced to identify new revenue streams, given the increasing competition from over-the-top Internet players (have […] Read more »