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Eric Schmidt
AS Profile The key issue is turning YouTube's massive popularity and the traffic from its 130 million subscribers into dollars, and to this end Google has just launched an advertising format it hopes will work by not being too obtrusive. [12 Oct 2007]
At sea over convergence?
Comment But subscribers often view these as expensive, overly complex or simply not that appealing. The danger is that even when subscribers fail to recognise the value, they do notice the cost, especially from mobile devices and most especially while... [21 Sep 2007]
Speeding up the net - is it possible?
Comment An example is WebEx which has built its own private MediaTone Network (MTN) to link all its hubs and ensure optimal performance for its subscribers. At some point all organisations need to send and receive vital info over the public internet. [09 Jul 2007]
Television 2.0 cometh
Comment We now have IP video encoders that can handle 36 MPEG-2 channels, full 'quadruple play' offerings (bundled telephone, TV, internet and wireless) from world-leading telco PCCW in Hong Kong (800,000 subscribers on their IPTV platform), and Tiscali... [04 Jul 2007]
Upwardly Mobile: How green is your phone?
Comment For subscribers to want to keep their handsets for so long, the handsets must be up to the job - solid battery life, resilient housing, the lot. Like any massive corporation worth its salt, handset manufacturers and telecoms kit makers are falling... [14 May 2007]
3GSM Diary, day 5: Protests and porn
Comment Nokia Siemens Networks' CEO Simon Beresford-Wylie predicts five billion subscribers by 2015, mostly from the emerging markets around the world. It's the last day at the Fira - but you'd be surprised at the number of extra visitors to the centre... [15 Feb 2007]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Mobile internet reality
Comment There is one channel running in a care home where an 85-year-old creates footage that is 'narrowcast' to channel subscribers - his fellow residents - on the following day. Quocirca's Rob Bamforth explains. [11 Jan 2007]
Steve Ranger's Notebook: Rabbiting on about wi-fi
Comment These services (others include the better-known Rabbit, as well as Mercury Callpoint and Zonephone) allowed subscribers to carry phone handsets with them and make outgoing calls whenever they were within range (around 100 metres) of the... [28 Nov 2006]
James Murdoch
AS Profile Since then, Murdoch has presided over the launch of Sky into the intensely competitive broadband market, dishing out free access to TV subscribers. Why? Transforming Sky into a telecoms player James Murdoch is back on the Agenda Setters list, after... [25 Sep 2006]
Editor's Blog: Social networking faux pas
Comment As before, your updates are sent only to our subscribers who already have your contact information in their address books. In the past, you have updated your contact information, helping to keep AccuCard Service subscribers up to date with any... [25 Aug 2006]
Radioactive: Which way for wireless broadband?
Comment According to its IPO filing in March 2006, Clearwire had 88,000 subscribers in the US and 11,500 in Belgium and Ireland. Does Intel's cash injection into the US' Clearwire mean WiMax will win out as the technology for wireless broadband? [27 Jul 2006]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Searching for mobile search
Comment Thus internet search engines such as Google have teamed up with mobile operators to allow subscribers to bring desktop searching to mobiles - using a Google page to search for sites specifically designed for mobile devices, for instance. [13 Apr 2006]
Radioactive: Mobile VoIP - not so disruptive
Comment Recently the eBay subsidiary joined forces with mobile operator 3 to offer subscribers an opportunity to use its increasingly popular VoIP service over 3G networks. Mobile IP telephony won't sound the death knell for greedy mobile operators and... [20 Mar 2006]
Opinion: Ofcom reins in VoIP and NGNs
Comment If it wants to enjoy the benefit of number portability (which is only available to subscribers of Pats services), an operator needs to ensure that its service complies with a pile of other regulatory requirements, such as providing emergency... [14 Mar 2006]
3GSM Diary: Ballmer n Branson, O2 guerrillas and Craig David
Comment and has a roster "who co-produce mobile content in the form of text, picture, audio and video blogs, branded wallpapers, ringtones and celebrity-driven games that are distributed through international carriers to mobile subscribers worldwide". [15 Feb 2006]
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