Lean by Design

OVUM now claims that 2006 will be the year of 3G. It appears that growth has been higher than anyone expected for the first time in 6 years, with up to 95% of new net additions in Europe being WCDMA phones. They attribute this to greater reliability of handsets, lower costs,and other signs of a [...]

In an effort to seek out exotic new high-margin services, such as e-commerce and IPTV, have service providers overly discounted the value of their historic strengths in voice technologies? People have a clear need to ‘connect’ with other people; to communicate, and to do so in real-time. Email does a good job of supporting some [...]

I have commented before on disappointing progress in the evolution of the wireless internet and the accompanying user experience, but this week I encountered further evidence of that struggle. It seems that Research in Motion’s Blackberry continues to represent the standard by which all other devices and wireless applications are measured. As I have stated [...]

There has been so much talk of bubbles lately – whether it is Web 2.0 or the US housing bubble – I felt compelled to comment on the latest report I read in Toronto’s Globe and Mail newspaper. Okay, it wasn’t focused on technology, but given the common theme of bubbles in tech and real-estate [...]