“I don’t think Microsoft would be keen to pursue Nokia X on a strategic level,” is what I had reasoned in a comment for Light Reading India a little more than four months ago.Now that it has come true, but is also accompanied with big job cuts, I wish it could have...
Representational ImageA euphoria is beginning to kick off as the World Wide Web turns 25 on March 12, 2014. Internet companies, media and the tech enthusiasts must be all set to start a big bash. Why not, one would exclaim!Google has started a social media campaign to...
Good morning! What's up today....? It's WhatsApp.And what's in a name... err app? Well, $19 billion, as that’s the price Facebook is paying to buy WhatsApp out. Could that give the likes of WeChat and Link a hike? Time will show, but the deal which is a record one for...
The necessary, and arguably the sufficient, condition for success of mobile broadband remains voice. That is not surprising, given that the largest revenue chunks, even for the service providers in evolved markets, still come from voice.Why VoLTE needs to be the 4G...
A mediation system that is designed to work with logically fixed elements would fall short of working with fluid configurations in an SDN environmentIt is often argued that carrier SDN—Software Defined Networking—is still many miles away (at least that’s how the...
Software-Defined Network ArchitectureSource: Open Networking FoundationSoftware Defined Networking (SDN) has been more disruptive—and potentially transformative—than one would have liked and hoped it to be. The pace at which SDN has developed and matured has...
Could the second E-Ink based screen finally be an answer to the smartphone battery woes?In what could turn out to be an effective approach to reducing battery worries of smartphone users, Russian device maker Yota has launched a smartphone with two screens – “one of...
Comscore has released key trends in India’s Online Display Ad space: While more than 3900 advertisers ran online ad campaign campaigns in Sep 2013, on an average, each online Indian was exposed to more than 395 ads in the last month, said Comscore. Social Media and...
That's what the exits of three top CXOs—the COO, the CFO and the CMO—at the struggling Canadian company mean!(BlackBerry has announced that Brian Bidulka—Chief Financial Officer; Kristian Tear— Chief Operating Officer and Frank Boulben—Chief Marketing Officer, are...
In business parlance, the terms foresight and vision are mostly taken to be quite synonymous, and though there is a difference, it's not always that easy to articulate it. Now, I just happened to see an anonymous quote shared on my social network, and it...
Well ahead of a third round of spectrum auction expected in January 2014, one is seeing formation of some gray clouds on the horizon. Yes, the reference is to the ongoing exchange of statements between presiding Telecom Minister and former Finance Minister Yashwant...
Well, if not anything, by shelving the selloff plans, BlackBerry has opted for a winded road towards a possible comeback, and most likely in the realm of software. Yet, the turn of events has been dramatic, and the selloff announcement, which earlier was lauded...