Over the past year, cloud computing has changed from a technology buzzword into the reality of business. Even companies outside of the technology space are learning that a cloud solution can give them a significant edge over their competition. This edge is only heightened for small and mid-sized businesses, as these companies are usually riding…
Quick interview with Jean Foster, VP Marketing of Neustar. Discussion about Neustar’s Intelligent Cloud solution which enables the delivery of mobile services across operator networks. Also, mobile service provider can enhance the service with additional opt-in context for the subscriber. Interview led by Martin Tantow, Editor-in-Chief, CloudTimes.
Quick interview with Dimitri Sirota, VP Marketing & Alliances of Layer 7 about their API management portal and future strategy. Discussion about how mobile is changing the needs of communication companies across the globe. While enterprise customers and service providers have very different wants and needs, they both share a desire for a secure way to…
Operators will be able to expand into new areas as connected devices become increasingly central to people’s lives – but they need to be agile in order to exploit these opportunities, warns Telefonica Digital director of global partners and devices, Steve Alder. Alder, who spoke in the ‘Consumer Devices: Riding the Next Wave of Smart…
The cloud service marketplace and management platform, AppDirect, announced today the launch of the AppDirect Marketplace Manager. Since launching its first marketplace in late 2010, AppDirect has experienced record growth in customer reach, and has added high-profile apps such as New Relic, SendGrid and Google Apps to its syndication network. AppDirect’s new Marketplace Manager provides the tools…
Paul Otellini, chief executive of Intel, the world’s largest semiconductor company, chose Mobile World Congress to announce a string of new partnerships for the Medfield platform, aimed at the mobile device market. In addition to Orange, which unveiled Europe’s first Intel-powered smartphone on Monday using the Atom Z2460 chip, Otellini announced deals with Visa and…
Google’s Eric Schmidt today called for the technology community to build-out connectivity to the estimated 5 billion of the world’s population who had “never done a Google search” – while at the same time announcing plans to bring the firm’s Chrome and Android units closer together. In his third visit to the Mobile World Congress…
Nokia this morning announced a broad refresh to its device portfolio, with Stephen Elop, its CEO, stating that one year on from its strategy refresh, it is “very clear that we have changed the clock speed of Nokia.” In its smartphone portfolio, the company confirmed wider availability of its Lumia 900 device, which was announced…
Ford Motor Company’s executive chairman Bill Ford has called on the mobile industry to help develop smarter transport systems for the future. In a special keynote address at MWC tonight, Ford – the great-grandson of legendary founder Henry Ford – outlined the need to develop intelligent vehicles and transport systems and the role that the…
Brett Taylor, CTO of Facebook, today announced the company is participating in “a number of industry wide initiatives” intended to support the development of the mobile web, focusing on technology standards and payment enabling. “Despite the incredible amount of work we have to do to make the mobile web great, I am extremely optimistic. In…