PRISM And The European Cloud

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 »

Big WiFi Is Back

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 »

Is Big Brother Bugging You?

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 »

Team Telco And The Telco Transformation

Telcos should stop complaining about the playing field not being level and start create a winning team instead. Fact is, we all play in the same telecoms arena and we all play by the same rules laid down by the same referee or regulator. We all play for the same public, but while some teams […] Read more »

Move Over Facebook VoIP, Here Comes Twelephone

What is Twelephone? Real time communications (think voice and video) enabled by your browser based on WebRTC. Twelephone supports Twitter sign in allowing users to use their twitter handle as their Twelephone number. No need to download an app. Using WebRTC as the communications technology and Twitter as the address book, Twelephone is enabling voice […] Read more »