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Don’t sell yourself (a continent) short
In an earlier entry on service delivery platforms (SDPs) I did my best to put the spurs to service providers to crack down on systems integrators running the same horses from their stable of software...
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A Tale of Two Companies
We’ve been talking about why it’s important to think of search engine optimization /search engine marketing (SEO/M) and Web 2.0 not as the be-all and end-all of your communications universe but as key...
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Strange(ly familiar) BREW
“Went looking for wireless apps and what did I see…an SDP looking back at me.” Over the years the longest-running publications in our industry have done a lead story or two based on our research, not...
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Killing the golden airwaves
Aesop’s Fables are a collection of stories attributed to a slave and storyteller who lived in Ancient Greece during 620–560 B.C. In what is perhaps Aesop’s most famous fable, a family had a goose that...
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This election is all about (data) integrity
With competition from every side, service providers must roll out a great many new services and features in the next few years to slake the thirst of overheated markets. We’ve talked about service...
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Peace on Earth
…and mercy mild, all God’s service providers and enterprise IT shops reconciled. To be sure, there is plenty of disharmony and cutthroat competition in the networking, software and telecommunications...
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“Verizon (and AT&T), we’ve got a problem.”
We could have titled this one several ways: “Every Port a Storm?” Or maybe “A Plea for Good Portmanship.” I think we got it right. Apollo 13, the movie that seared the phrase “Houston, we’ve got a...
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The Return of the King
What, you’ve already forgotten the blockbuster flick based on portions of J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy? OK, you’re forgiven: It’s been awhile and if you have daughters, your...
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…but the light bulb has to really want to change
A variation on the changing-a-light-bulb joke goes like this: Q – “How many [psychologists/psychiatrists] does it take to change a light bulb?” A - “Just one, but the light bulb has to really want to...
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“Doctor, I wonder if you’d turn that white-hot spotlight on yourself.”
My previous entry in this space talked about a company rejecting pretty much every weapon in the interactive arsenal…then wondering why instead of growing the business, since around 2000 it’s been...
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