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Samsung Plays the Grey Game to Attack Parallel Imports

Samsung Galaxy Note 3 (Photo credit: Janitors) There has been some recent debate about Samsung and their approach to regionally locking handsets, starting with the Galaxy Note3. It’s a very interesting situation, and one that will impact grey marketers and their customers more than those who sell and buy in market. But the real story is not the … Read more

Telcos: Feeling a Wee Bit Insecure about WebRTC?

WebRTC Single Page Application (Photo credit: Tsahi Levent-Levi) I think there's a bit of "insecurity" going on within both the last gen and next gen telco providers when it comes to WebRTC. And honestly, it's the same old story. An instant replay of sorts. Honestly, is it live or is it Memorex? As a matter … Read more

WhatsApp @ Skype -Changes That’s What

A good friend in the telecom world, Kerry Ritz, who is the ex head of Vonage UK and before that was with 3 in London tipped me off to a move at Microsoft-Skype that is sure to cause raise some eyebrows over at WhatsApp in Mountain View and with their VCs I bet. If I … Read more

The January Juggernaut Begins

Today marks the end of a two week respite of sorts. By working from Cascais, Portugal and now Paris, France I was able to spend time with friends and still work remotely using a combination of blazing fast 60 meg symetircal broadband in Cascais, and mobile technology when I was out and about. But, starting … Read more

The App Store Onslaught

 (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Have you noticed at which the number of apps being updated in the Apple App Store has increased lately? Between new apps being launched along with updates and bug fixes for iOS 6 as well as to work more and better with the iPad Mini, the volume of updates since Thanksgiving has … Read more

State of The Internet from Mary Meeker

Image via CrunchBase For many years Mary Meeker has been considered the doyan of the invesment community from her days on Wall Street to today with Kliner Perkins, the most venerable of VC's nestled in Silicon Valley. Mary's annual "Internet Trends" report is a must read as it shapes the opinions of where money goes … Read more

Were You Prepared?

8×8 #latergram (Photo credit: qthrul) I was really impressed with what one of my agency's client's did when it came to communicating with their customer base surround Hurricane Sandy. Cloud communications leader, 8×8 sent out an email pointing to a web page that had a Disaster Planning document, all geared around the concept of maintaining communications … Read more

Something To Fix in the Apple iTunes App Store

The architecture of the iTunes app store was created for tracks of music, and was based on rights management issues tied to licensing of the mechanicals, the words and the recorded works, which is why the iTunes store and App Store architecture is country specific. To gain access to a specific country's app store or … Read more