Middleware market braces for growth

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Finally, some news that we were waiting for — Infonetics just released a report on the growth of middleware over the next several years — Jeff Heynon of Infonetics says that early IPTV operators are running into problems because of scaling issues with their off-the-shelf middleware. This is interesting and we are glad [...]

Rumour has it…

That the dark lords behind the Carlyle Group and  Providence Equity Partners are working on an all cash deal to buy Informa – the UK’s biggest publisher of not only magazines but also analysis and trade shows. All cash deal, you read that correctly. And if the dark lords take over Informa, it will be [...]

LinkedIn gets well-funded and Facebook goes to China

This past week LinkedIn announced that they raised around USD53m in funding, valuing the company at around USD1bn – guess what? Its value has quadrupled over the past 16 months.  Also in social networking land, Facebook expanded into China. Now this should be interesting to watch as the number of potential users dwarfs the Western world. This user adoption [...]

Social networking ad revenues still up in the air

Some simple projections on the advertising market and its potential on social networking sites.  We think the statistic that is most interesting is that around 72% of all US ad agencies and advetisors will NOT run ads on user generated video blogs.

Can IPTV compete on content?

This just in on Telephony online – the $64,000 question – can IPTV compete on content? The biggest issue is how will these giants differentiate themselves? And what will be the deciding factor for their offering. The networks and content providers are saying that being able to adapt content to each screen will be key [...]

NXTComm 2008

I wish we could say that the NXTcomm show was full of innovative technology and telcos that were talking about next generation technology that consumers really wanted and that operators could roll out  – we wanted to hear about content on three screens, the mobile convergence and more about what the networks are saying they [...]

Outsourcing 2.0

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We really want to call it this because we believe that is what it is. This outsourcing brought to you by Ciklum, a Danish backed and operated company in the Ukraine, is not your father’s outsourcing firm. It’s not even focused on large enterprises, what is is focused on is creating a transparent [...]

ink heads to Dreampark

We headed to Stockholm to see our favorite middleware provider – Dreampark this week. Learned that their fantastic management team is backed by a fantastic group of developers and they let me join their weekly breakfast meeting – it was all in Swedish -but hey, I picked up on a few things – of course [...]

Funding like the good old days

 
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Wow. Yesterday one of our favorite, hard ball reporters, Ray LeMaistre with Light Reading posted a great story about Inuk Networks and their snag of $18.6 million USD – this let us remind you is for an IPTV start up – not an emerging tech social networking start up – but [...]

Give them the internet! (on their mobile)

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In some new research today, Eurocomms reported that people want ‘the Internet’ on their devices, rather than the ‘mobile Internet‘. Muted adoption followed much initial hype and consumer uptake did not increase until the industry adapted its mindset to allow true use of Internet on the move and with it, more consumer choice [...]