Comments for Microsperience http://www.microsperience.com Mon, 06 Sep 2010 11:49:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Comment on Change prepares the ground for revolution by Teresa Cottam http://www.microsperience.com/?p=3520&cpage=1#comment-145 Teresa Cottam Mon, 06 Sep 2010 11:49:48 +0000 http://www.microsperience.com/?p=3520#comment-145 I would also like to point you to a really interesting piece by Sagee Ben Zedeff on telepresence: "Telepresence prepares the ground for the revolution" http://bit.ly/cQkt4H which refers to this blog. Sagee argues that telepresence is revolutionary after a slightly so-what start, because it is becoming embedded in the way we live and do business. I think that the downturn has really made us rethink eg business travel, which has undoubtedly been a boost to telepresence tech. A lot of gainsayers I know have switched position on telepresence/videoconferencing in the last couple of years... I now just need to get over the embarrassment of receiving a "tribute blog" ;-) Cheers Sagee I enjoyed reading this! I would also like to point you to a really interesting piece by Sagee Ben Zedeff on telepresence:

“Telepresence prepares the ground for the revolution” http://bit.ly/cQkt4H

which refers to this blog. Sagee argues that telepresence is revolutionary after a slightly so-what start, because it is becoming embedded in the way we live and do business. I think that the downturn has really made us rethink eg business travel, which has undoubtedly been a boost to telepresence tech. A lot of gainsayers I know have switched position on telepresence/videoconferencing in the last couple of years…

I now just need to get over the embarrassment of receiving a “tribute blog” ;-)
Cheers Sagee I enjoyed reading this!
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]]> Comment on Change prepares the ground for revolution by Teresa Cottam http://www.microsperience.com/?p=3520&cpage=1#comment-144 Teresa Cottam Mon, 06 Sep 2010 11:38:17 +0000 http://www.microsperience.com/?p=3520#comment-144 Thanks for the comment Tal - I think we'll have to agree to disagree on this one. You see I think batteries are really important because if you don't have the battery oomph then your fancy iPhone isn't going to do very much for you. I also think QoS is important, because if your iPhone keeps dropping off the network or is really slow then your user experience is going to be pretty poor. And affordability is really important IMHO because what delivers real change has to penetrate. Now you could argue that a "design icon" can influence/inform lower-cost products, and I'm willing to accept that. In the circles in which we move Tal, the iPhone is an exec toy that many of us like to flaunt; in the real world most people don't have iPhones. I'm yet to see anyone use one in the town in which I live in the UK - yet at Amdocs InTouch I was starting to think I was the only one not contributing to Mr Jobs' pension plan. We have to remember that we are the wealthy, privileged metro-technicals. Most people are not like us. My gut feeling is that when we look back on this in say 200 years - you and I Tal will just be virtual personalities somewhere on the Net 9.0 by then - then the winner is going to be some really fairly basic mobile model that most of us overlooked. This will be the phone that turns out to have brought mobility to the emerging markets and therefore connected billions of new customers. You might be really excited by having a touchscreen, but imagine how those people feel when for the first time they can communicate, can have access to information (for education, for doing business better etc), can access services that truly revolutionise their lives (like weather forecasting, mobile money & banking). What mobility is doing, and will increasingly do, for those folks is real revolution. It will change their lives as profoundly as the industrial revolution did ours here in the UK. Always good to debate with you Very best Teresa Thanks for the comment Tal – I think we’ll have to agree to disagree on this one. You see I think batteries are really important because if you don’t have the battery oomph then your fancy iPhone isn’t going to do very much for you. I also think QoS is important, because if your iPhone keeps dropping off the network or is really slow then your user experience is going to be pretty poor. And affordability is really important IMHO because what delivers real change has to penetrate. Now you could argue that a “design icon” can influence/inform lower-cost products, and I’m willing to accept that.

In the circles in which we move Tal, the iPhone is an exec toy that many of us like to flaunt; in the real world most people don’t have iPhones. I’m yet to see anyone use one in the town in which I live in the UK – yet at Amdocs InTouch I was starting to think I was the only one not contributing to Mr Jobs’ pension plan. We have to remember that we are the wealthy, privileged metro-technicals. Most people are not like us.

My gut feeling is that when we look back on this in say 200 years – you and I Tal will just be virtual personalities somewhere on the Net 9.0 by then – then the winner is going to be some really fairly basic mobile model that most of us overlooked. This will be the phone that turns out to have brought mobility to the emerging markets and therefore connected billions of new customers.

You might be really excited by having a touchscreen, but imagine how those people feel when for the first time they can communicate, can have access to information (for education, for doing business better etc), can access services that truly revolutionise their lives (like weather forecasting, mobile money & banking). What mobility is doing, and will increasingly do, for those folks is real revolution. It will change their lives as profoundly as the industrial revolution did ours here in the UK.

Always good to debate with you
Very best
Teresa
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]]> Comment on Red hot telecoms tech: QoS gets up close and personal by Teresa Cottam http://www.microsperience.com/?p=3610&cpage=1#comment-142 Teresa Cottam Fri, 03 Sep 2010 11:43:32 +0000 http://www.microsperience.com/?p=3610#comment-142 Thanks Adam - it's hard to say everything you want to say about this without writing War and Peace. I guess my point is that I'd rather see us act when we see a problem occurring using existing competition law etc rather than constructing some huge piece of legislation against something that may (or may not) happen that will probably be biased, unwieldy and out of date before enacted. Such a law would almost certainly have unforeseen negative consequences (a bit like how the Human Rights Legislation in the UK has gone horribly wrong because of how it has been interpreted, and become unpopular as a result). Let's not try and fix problems that don't exist, but stand ready to bring in regulation if needed. And let's put customers and national interests at the forefront - their rights and needs will almost certainly be better served with an agile and light touch of regulation rather than the heavy hand of legislation. NB: For those readers not familiar with Adam's firm - here's a link to his website: www.gosnetworks.com You'll find some great QoS related blogs there including this one: http://www.gosnetworks.com/index.cfm/page/currentnews/id/52 Thanks Adam – it’s hard to say everything you want to say about this without writing War and Peace. I guess my point is that I’d rather see us act when we see a problem occurring using existing competition law etc rather than constructing some huge piece of legislation against something that may (or may not) happen that will probably be biased, unwieldy and out of date before enacted. Such a law would almost certainly have unforeseen negative consequences (a bit like how the Human Rights Legislation in the UK has gone horribly wrong because of how it has been interpreted, and become unpopular as a result). Let’s not try and fix problems that don’t exist, but stand ready to bring in regulation if needed. And let’s put customers and national interests at the forefront – their rights and needs will almost certainly be better served with an agile and light touch of regulation rather than the heavy hand of legislation.

NB: For those readers not familiar with Adam’s firm – here’s a link to his website: http://www.gosnetworks.com You’ll find some great QoS related blogs there including this one:
http://www.gosnetworks.com/index.cfm/page/currentnews/id/52
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]]> Comment on Red hot telecoms tech: QoS gets up close and personal by adamohare http://www.microsperience.com/?p=3610&cpage=1#comment-141 adamohare Fri, 03 Sep 2010 10:06:53 +0000 http://www.microsperience.com/?p=3610#comment-141 A great article. I specially like the Amazon delivery analogy. The market will structure itself around customer propensity to pay. And there are a number of service providers that already have customers doing exactly that. We (GoS Networks) have some unique solutions to deliver this to the edge, but feedback shows that knowledge of what is actually happening (monitoring and measurement) is equally important to the Service Provider as generating revenue streams. A great article. I specially like the Amazon delivery analogy. The market will structure itself around customer propensity to pay. And there are a number of service providers that already have customers doing exactly that. We (GoS Networks) have some unique solutions to deliver this to the edge, but feedback shows that knowledge of what is actually happening (monitoring and measurement) is equally important to the Service Provider as generating revenue streams.

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]]> Comment on Licences or leashes? Reviewing your software licensing could free up cash for innovation by Jodi_SMB http://www.microsperience.com/?p=2052&cpage=1#comment-137 Jodi_SMB Wed, 18 Aug 2010 19:32:25 +0000 http://www.microsperience.com/?p=2052#comment-137 You can also save on upfront hardware/software costs when opting for ‘Software-as-a-Service’. Microsoft's offering in the application arena is the BPOS suite - you’ll get e-mail, document sharing/collaboration, instant messaging and web conferencing. Its subscription based and you pay for the users you need - your updates, upgrades and infrastructure are managed for you, by Microsoft. This link should help: http://smb.ms/ajqfSn Regards, Jodi E. Microsoft SMB Outreach Team msftoft@microsoft.com You can also save on upfront hardware/software costs when opting for ‘Software-as-a-Service’. Microsoft’s offering in the application arena is the BPOS suite – you’ll get e-mail, document sharing/collaboration, instant messaging and web conferencing. Its subscription based and you pay for the users you need – your updates, upgrades and infrastructure are managed for you, by Microsoft. This link should help: http://smb.ms/ajqfSn

Regards,
Jodi E.
Microsoft SMB Outreach Team
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]]> Comment on Licences or leashes? Reviewing your software licensing could free up cash for innovation by Tweets that mention Licences or leashes? Reviewing your software licensing could free up cash for innovation | Microsperience -- Topsy.com http://www.microsperience.com/?p=2052&cpage=1#comment-136 Tweets that mention Licences or leashes? Reviewing your software licensing could free up cash for innovation | Microsperience -- Topsy.com Wed, 18 Aug 2010 16:35:45 +0000 http://www.microsperience.com/?p=2052#comment-136 [...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by darranclem, Teresa Cottam. Teresa Cottam said: New blog post: Licences or leashes? Reviewing s/w licensing can free up cash for innovation http://bit.ly/bCSkD0 #BSSOSS #telecoms [...] [...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by darranclem, Teresa Cottam. Teresa Cottam said: New blog post: Licences or leashes? Reviewing s/w licensing can free up cash for innovation http://bit.ly/bCSkD0 #BSSOSS #telecoms [...]

]]> Comment on Apps, apps everywhere… by themusicvoid http://www.microsperience.com/?p=3095&cpage=1#comment-135 themusicvoid Wed, 18 Aug 2010 14:55:03 +0000 http://www.microsperience.com/?p=3095#comment-135 Whilst Apple’s app store to date has so far been a resounding success, The Music Void asks what are the long-term prospects for app stores in general? As usual Apple was the first to innovate in this area. Read more on this here - http://www.themusicvoid.com/2010/08/what-is-the-long-term-market-viability-of-app-stores/ Whilst Apple’s app store to date has so far been a resounding success, The Music Void asks what are the long-term prospects for app stores in general? As usual Apple was the first to innovate in this area.

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