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Social Networks for Things At the recent DLD Conference (Digital - Life - Design) in Munich, Germany, Esther Dyson moderated a panel on the Internet of Things. The subject of the discussion was giving identity to things, just as people have an identity. In essence, creating social networks for things. On the panel were Ulla-Maaria Engeström (Thinglink), Doug Krugman (Personal Commerce), Michael Silverman (ThingD). Dyson began by noting that people have always had identities and there are countless services for that, but things don't have that yet. H3G S.p.A.: Private Company Information April 25, 2014 12:57 PM ET Wireless Telecommunication Services Company Overview Mobile App or Browser-Based Site? Report Says The Browser Will W Mobile search company Taptu has released a detailed report showing that the future of the Mobile Web is likely to be dominated by cross-platform browser-based mobile web sites - rather than apps built specifically for iPhone, Android, or any other platform. Taptu calls the former "the Mobile Touch Web," which it defines as "Web sites created for mobile touchscreen devices, with finger-friendly layouts and lightweight pages that are fast to load over cellular networks." Taptu estimates that there are 326,000 Mobile Touch Web sites worldwide, which they say compares to 148,000 iPhone apps in the App Store and 24,000 apps in the Android market. Taptu expects the browser-based mobile web market to grow much faster than the app market.
Top 10 MWC Stories - GSMA Mobile Business Briefing by Mobile World Live Mobile World Live is the online service dedicated to providing the mobile industry with daily new... read more Almost 50,000 mobile execs descended on Barcelona last week, and Mobile Business Briefing (MBB) – in the guise of the event’s official Show Daily – reported on all the major news developments.
6 Thoughts About Location Madness Location based social networks - are you over it already? It feels like location is all we ever hear about anymore, especially this week leading up to SXSW. We're excited about location too; see our enthusiastic write-ups What Twitter's Geolocation API Makes Possible and The Era of Location as Platform Has Arrived.
Brazil's big four operators prepare for fresh competition - GSMA by Mobile World Live Mobile World Live is the online service dedicated to providing the mobile industry with daily new... read more Brought to you by Wireless Intelligence Brazil’s mobile market – the largest in Latin America – reported strong growth in 2009, but the country’s four main mobile operators could face a raft of new competitors later this year. According to Wireless Intelligence data, the Brazilian market grew by 16 percent year-on-year to reach 176 million by the end of last year and continues to be dominated by its ‘big four’ players: market-leader Vivo, America Movil’s Claro, Telecom Italia’s TIM Brasil, and local operator Tele Norte Leste Participacoes (better known as ‘Oi’).
Developing an offline charging application using the IBM WebSphe Introduction IBM WebSphere IP Multimedia Subsystem Connector V6.2 (hereafter referred to as WebSphere IMS Connector) is an important component of the IBM Service Delivery Platform for Telecommunications. In the IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) architecture, the WebSphere IMS Connector connects SIP applications with IMS core elements and provides functions of offline charging (through the Rf interface), online charging (Ro interface), and subscriber profile management (Sh interface). This article describes how to develop an offline charging application, leveraging the Rf interface in WebSphere IMS Connector V6.2.
Hello, iPad. Hello, Cloud 2. Editor’s note: What does the iPad have to do with cloud computing? Glad you asked. In this guest post Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO of salesforce.com, explains how liberating the iPad will really be. Twitter And The Nine-Month Bounce I’ve long suspected that the basic usage pattern for Twitter is that people try it, don’t get it or become discouraged because they don’t know anyone else on it, but it grows on them eventually until they start using it every day. Many people, of course, never come back, but for those who do, they need to get past that familiarity curve before it becomes an essential communications tool. Now I have some data to back up my theory. Social media analytics company Sysomos just released some data based on its analysis of over one billion Tweets which shows the contribution of updates by how long people have been on the service. The most active users are those who joined Twitter more than nine months ago. They account for 41.6 percent of all Tweets.
Bharti Airtel set to become global mobile superplayer - GSMA Mob by Mobile World Live Mobile World Live is the online service dedicated to providing the mobile industry with daily new... read more Brought to you by Wireless Intelligence Bharti Airtel’s planned acquisition of 15 of Zain’s African mobile networks will make the Indian firm one of the five largest mobile groups in the world by subscriber connections, according to the latest Wireless Intelligence operator-group rankings. The latest global rankings are based on fourth-quarter 2009 connections data (see table) and are calculated on a pro forma basis to demonstrate the impact of the enlarged Airtel Group.
Glympse: Real-Time, Private Location-Tracking May be the Winning A Redmond-based startup is introducing a location-based social sharing service called Glympse. With a mobile application that works on iPhone, Android and Windows Mobile devices, users share their location (aka a "Glympse"), allowing their friends to see that location on another phone or on any other Internet-connected device. Senders can customize who gets to see the Glympse they post, whether the recipient is just one person, a group, or even everyone they've added as a friend on a social network like Facebook or Twitter. The interesting twist to this service isn't the location-sharing aspect, of course - there are dozens of companies that allow for that today - it's the service's real-time nature and the thoughtfully included privacy features.
Snacksquare: A Foursquare Directory Of Deals And Venues The budding business model for Foursquare is local ads through geo-targeted offers. When you check into a bar or restaurant, you might get 10 percent off your meal, or maybe a free drink if you are the mayor (it’s good to be the mayor). But how do you find all of these venues on a map.