FCC approves nine White Space Database Adminstrators
In some areas, it seems that Europe is always following the US. One of those areas is white space cognitive radio. Whilst European and UK …
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LinkedIn announces first social media IPO of 2011: dot.com hype or sustainable business model?
It is a sign of the changing times that I learnt about LinkedIn’s IPO through twitter last night, and that LinkedIn itself blogged about it. Seasoned …
Will Apple’s move into NFC mobile payment reshape industry alliances?
My eye was caught today by a story on TechCrunch (an excellent blog BTW) that Apple may incorporate near field communications technology (NFC) into its next generation …
Cognitive radio: the road to mobile broadband delivery, or the path to anarchic interference?
For those who are not familiar with the term, cognitive radio (also sometimes described as white-space radio) describes a way of using radio spectrum in which …
Mobile broadband event: net neutrality, mobile content, network capacity and handsets
Regular blog readers will know that I hosted a mobile data event for Cambridge Wireless yesterday. I found the event thought-provoking. For those on twitter, I attempted …
Vertical integration the industrial logic for M&A: Vivendi / SFR and Comcast / NBC Universal
My eye was caught last night by a story in the Financial Times this morning reporting analyst speculation that in the wake of the approvals of …
Financial technology, cloud, mobile data and social networking will drive deals and valuation multiples in technology sector
As a new blogger, site statistics are a source of endless fascination. They are however useful – my post on TMT valuation multiples seems to …
Do more tablets mean more ‘lean-back’ consumer browsing?
Sadly I’ve not been in Las Vegas at CES, but remained at my desk in London reading the various updates. As the dust starts to …
And the killer application for 2011 is …
I’m very excited to have had my first re-tweet, so today’s post develops the thought further. The retweet was of an economist article which, in …
Net neutrality: religious or secular war?
Some years ago I was reading one of those very thought provoking articles in the end of year bumper edition of the Economist. The gist …