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After Amazon, how many clouds do we need?
Telcos won't find "cloud computing" an easy business. With news that Google and Microsoft plan to take on the Amazon Web Services monolith with infrastructure services of their own, you have to ask: How many clouds d... (Read Full Article)
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Telcos and Cable are Not "Platforms"
Explore IP Carrier (May 16 2012)
Microsoft’s Xbox 360 is already the most-watched net-connected TV device in the United States and soon, the w... (Read Full Article)
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Will Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon or Microsoft Become Mobile Service Providers?
Explore IP Carrier (May 3 2012)
..., for example. Some believe the "Four Horsemen" of the Internet include Facebook, Apple, Google and Amazon. Others might say the list actually is "Five Horsemen" and include Microsoft. Either way, the notion is that handful of firms have the ability, at least in principle, to creat... (Read Full Article)
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Apple, Google, Amazon Microsoft: Who Wins the Ecosystem War?
Explore Google FeedBurner (May 3 2012)
... new shape. Some believe the "Four Horsemen" of the Internet include Facebook, Apple, Google and Amazon. Others might say the list actually is "Five Horsemen" and include Microsoft. Either way, the notion is that handful of firms have the ability, at least in principle, to creat... (Read Full Article)
Mentions: Microsoft Google ABI Research
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Apple, Google, Amazon Microsoft: Who Wins the Ecosystem War?
Explore IP Carrier (May 3 2012)
... new shape. Some believe the "Four Horsemen" of the Internet include Facebook, Apple, Google and Amazon. Others might say the list actually is "Five Horsemen" and include Microsoft. Either way, the notion is that handful of firms have the ability, at least in principle, to creat... (Read Full Article)
Mentions: Microsoft Google ABI Research
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How Long Does Microsoft Have to Prevent Apple Dominance in Consumer Computing?
Explore IP Carrier (May 1 2012)
...in Barnes & Noble new Nook e-reader and college book business, in an effort to better compete with Amazon.com and Apple in the tablet computer market. The move shows how important content stores have become i......d the inclusion of a Nook app on Windows tablets should allow them to compete with Apple's iPad and Amazon's Kindle Fire, some believe. But the larger question is how much time ... (Read Full Article)
Mentions: Microsoft Apple Amazon.com
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A brief history of Microsoft’s e-reader efforts
...k game. Typical for the company, it often has great ideas, but it errs on the timing. In fact, when Microsoft debuted its Windows Pocket PC platform for mobile devices — a precursor to today’s smartphones –bac....... And why not when the software was then losing to dedicated e-Ink devices and smaller tablets from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and others? Clearly, the PC route as an e-book strategy has limited upside ...
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Mentions: Microsoft DRM Amazon.com
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Lowenstein's View: Is the mobile M&A binge crazy or justified?
Explore FierceWireless (Apr 26 2012)
...tter and are doing much of the buying is relatively concentrated: Apple, Google, Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, Microsoft, eBay, Intuit, Visa, SAP, Oracle, Disney, Comcast. Many of these companies are in multiple, overlap... (Read Full Article)
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Diller: Online Video Should Be Subject to Same Obligations as Traditional Distributors
Explore The Cable Industry Book (Apr 24 2012)
... receptive to the prospect of over-the-top services, like those represented by other witnesses from Amazon and Microsoft, for potentially providing downward pricing pressure on cable bills, which he criticized as outstri... (Read Full Article)
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What Might "Everything as a Service" Mean?
Explore Thoughts on Carrier Evolution (Apr 24 2012)
...whole business processes also will be available for purchase as a service. That means firms such as Microsoft and Cisco each now support seven or more unique business models. “We predict that most leading tech......s. Consumer electronics suppliers are becoming content and services providers. Other firms, such as Amazon, are becoming cloud services providers. The issue is how much cloud computing might enable or threa... (Read Full Article)
Mentions: Microsoft Cisco Amazon.com
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Google planning to brand and sell Android tablets
Explore Channel Register (Mar 30 2012)
...id Google is mulling over the possibility of subsidising its tablets to take the fight to Apple and Amazon, which is selling the Kindle Fire in the US - the Kindle Touch launches in Europe next month. The A......per cent market share worldwide and Apple's iOS had 64 per cent with others - including HP, RIM and Microsoft - constituting the remainder, Canalys revealed. Tim Coulling, analyst at Canalys, described the ... (Read Full Article)
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The Cloud is the New "Operating System?"
...g. EMC’s strength: In data we trust EMC is our final big contender for cloud dominance. Unlike Amazon, Microsoft, and Google, EMC sits far away from the consumer-side of IT and squarely faces the enterprise. EMC’...
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Mentions: Microsoft Google Amazon.com
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What Era of Computing are We In? What Comes Next?
Explore IP Carrier (Mar 3 2012)
...ifferent companies. IBM in the mainframe era; Digital Equipment Corp. in the mini-computer era and Microsoft and Intel in the PC (or Cisco in the client-server era, as one might also refer to the PC era) are ......ibe an era by the dominant way computing is done, but only by some other indicator. Consider that Amazon and Barnes & Noble now appear on rankings of tablet market share, for example. That ... (Read Full Article)
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6 features that make Windows 8 a tablet contender
...device relies solely on local storage, but also cloud connectivity and remote storage. That’s where Microsoft’s SkyDrive comes in, although you can always use Windows 8 with Dropbox, Amazon’s Cloud Drive, or any other cloud storage system. The advantage to SkyDrive is its integration into...
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Mentions: Microsoft Apple Amazon.com
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Why Amazon, eBay and Google are building bricks-and-mortar stores
Explore The Register (Feb 10 2012)
...its dependence an expensive sales and marketing model. Similarly, it's not clear that Google, eBay, Amazon or even Microsoft also building out a consumer retail presence can foolishly follow Apple's lead, given that they arg... (Read Full Article)
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VMware crafts mega-controller for public clouds
Explore The Register (Feb 7 2012)
...en hypervisors, although Red Hat's KVM is also seeing some uptake and there are some that are using Microsoft's Hyper-V as well. VMware has no chance at all of having Amazon dump its homegrown tools. But just about every other service provider and hoster in the world knows...
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Mentions: Microsoft Amazon.com
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Apple eyes ISPs to sell 'iTV'
Explore reghardware (Feb 7 2012)
...that kind of event TV is much more rare than once it was. These trends favour the likes of Netflix, Amazon and YouTube, not to mention TV-to-viewer mediation companies like TiVo. In January, Tivo said 38 pe......ated webcam that can track viewers' hand and body movements too. These are nothing special, either. Microsoft is already using its Kinect tech for this, and other TV makers are looking to incorporate ... (Read Full Article)
Mentions: Microsoft Apple Virgin Media
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Study: Tablet Market To Hit 125 Million Units
Explore techweekeurope.co.uk (Feb 7 2012)
...sales of Apple and Android tablets will continue to boost the market this year, with some help from Microsoft's Windows 8 Study: Tablet Market To Hit 125 Million Units Analysts predict that strong sales of A......on of the 70 million tablets that shipped in 2011, with Samsung shipping 10 million Galaxy Tabs and Amazon selling 4 million Kindle Fire Android tablets for the year. With the Kindle Fire ...
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2011 in Review, Reviewed: Telco 2.0 News Review
Explore STL Partners (Jan 3 2012)
...nalyst making a play for attention by predicting Apple will "lose its cool" in 2012. Ars Technica's Microsoft blog expects that 2012 will be a very important year for MS strategically, as many new products are......salary after the company took a massive charge against the value of unsold PlayBooks. Among others, Amazon.com is reported to have been interested in buying the company. No wonder one investor complained ... (Read Full Article)
Mentions: Qualcomm IMS Electronic Frontier Foundation
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Why Entertainment Video Has to Go “Over the Top”
Explore Razorsight (Dec 13 2011)
...o appeal to price-conscious consumers or people who do not watch much television. Greenfield thinks Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Sony, Twitter, Yahoo or Wal-Mart could be interested. But he also thinks AT&T, Dish Network or Ver... (Read Full Article)
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Carrier Snake Bite. What Should They Do Now?
Explore tmcnet.com (Dec 12 2011)
...r game. Competitors from Everywhere And boy do they need to be. Just a few days before the event, Amazon launched its $199 Kindle Fire – a game-changing device in that it is so cheap and powerful. Althoug......second-best selling tablet on the market. That’s quite an accomplishment. Moreover, just recently Microsoft formally announced its completion of the acquisition of Skype. Does this mean more opportunity for ... (Read Full Article)
Mentions: IMS Microsoft Rich Tehrani
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Microsoft Will Buy Netflix, LinkedIn In 2012, IDC Predicts
Explore IP Carrier (Dec 2 2011)
...tflix’s diminished market value and expected losses next year from growing content licensing bills. Microsoft Predicted To Buy Netflix, LinkedIn in 2012 “In 2012, part of Microsoft’s challenge is to counter what Apple and Amazon have done and what Google is building up, a really strong media and content marketplace,” Gens said... (Read Full Article)
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Verizon expands VoIP service to four major Asia Pacific regions
Explore FierceTelecom (Nov 16 2011)
... regions * Sizing up the cable industry's Q3 2011 results * Savvis beefs up cloud, sales teams with Microsoft, Amazon veterans * Taking a new look at wireless backhaul with Ron Mudry of Tower Cloud * Tackling payment ... (Read Full Article)
Mentions: Microsoft AT&T AT&T Mobility
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