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This latest announcement from Apple is scary stuff for Telcos. Apple have announced the launch of iAd which will allow the embedding of advertisements within Apps. It is probably very clever, but inreality this is an area where Telcos can compete if they really want to. Regular readers of my blog will know that this is something that I have strong opinions on. The technology side is relatively straight forward and the real key is understanding their customer usage data so they can target advertisements...

Towards the end of the year, we get Time magazine’s Person of the Year, the Nobel prizes, and other recognitions of the year about to wrap up. It’s all a mechanism of keeping score on who’s up and who’s down; what’s hot and what’s not. So in this spirit let me share with you my highlights of 2009 and how this is going to evolve in the year to come. Without a doubt the three areas that defined our industry in 2009 were App Stores, 4G and Cloud Computing. They all punched significantly above their...