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The Economics of Cloud – More Than Just Services, Platforms, Infrastructure

An excellent (German) article by BITKOM summarizes business challenges, decision points, and business models of cloud-based solutions. BITKOM segments the “Cloud” space into Software, Platforms, and Infrastructure. While this is all true and good for current business, the Cloud stack looks more like Information, Relationships, Services, Platforms, Infrastructure, and Networks.

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Why Mobile Advertisement Itself Doesn’t Make Sense For Carriers

Average ad revenue in the US per subscriber per year will be…. tada: $4.86. And that’s in 2013. So even if Carriers would get 100% of this – which they won’t – 40 cents per month additional revenue is not really the biggest opportunity. But there’s more to the game.

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Immersive Interactive Internet TV Platforms

Rich Internet (micro) TV portals with increasing interactivity are emerging. They include social as well as media immersion – more than just content, but a complete platform. The question is what telecoms can offer as a platform provider.

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Cloud Computing Is Not A Resource Problem – It’s A Design Problem

Most amateur database programmers will answer you that any kind of application “basically only needs one big table”. Well, Twitter has proved them wrong. Just throwing more resources at a problem isn’t necessarily the best idea if your design is already flawed. That is also true for cloud-based testing, or even cloud-based testing of your cloud-based applications.

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Major Restructuring at Deutsche Telekom

Deutsche Telekom Group CEO Rene Obermann just announced a major restructuring program: fixed-line and mobile communications businesses are going to be consolidated; future product development, IT and technology will be steered across Europe, procurement globally.

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LinkedIn And The Advertisement

I’m a business user subscriber of LinkedIn, paying serious bucks each year. And I still see tons of advertisement. WTF?!

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Eight Reasons Why Buying IT Now Is NOT Critical

In a recent blog post Eric Pederson outlines “Eight Reasons Buying IT Now Is Critical”. IT is as strategic as ever. Trying to make do can be penny wise but pound foolish.

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Fake Identities on Social Networks

Forget credit cards and social security numbers, a new lot of identity thieves will soon come after your web profiles, or says security firm Aladdin in their Annual Threat Report.

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Refueling the $100 Laptop Discussion with Marko Calsan?

Eight year old Marco Calasan from Skopje, Macedonia has been dubbed the Mozart of Computers by local press after becoming the worlds youngest IT Professional when he passed the Microsoft Certified System Administrator exam.

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Judy Estrin – The Three Horizons Of Innovation

In a video interview Judy Estrin talks about how to fix the innovation gap. Innovators have to simultaneously handle three innovation horizons A) incremental innovation, B) next-generation products, and C) future growth.

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