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Optaros' latest Assembled Web Solution awarded Best of Swiss Web
Posted 03 Apr 2009 by Optaros Tags: Assembled Web, Clients, Community, Europe, Java, Marketing, media, Media Advertising, Media and Publishing, Mobile, Open, Open Source, RIA, Rich Internet Application, Solutions, Switzerland, telco, telecom, User Experience, Web 2.0

The Best of Swiss Web Awards are the most coveted awards for e-business, Internet and mobile projects in Switzerland since 2001. A total of 277 projects were submitted to the jury this year in eight categories. A panel of 80 experts has revealed this year’s winners of the Best of Swiss Web Awards and me2me was awarded twice with this accolade which honours Switzerland’s top websites. me2me was awarded the Best of Swiss Web Technology Innovation Silver Award and the Business Efficiency Bronze Award 2009. The project was also a nominee for the 2009 Master of Swiss Web.   + Read more

MMS on the iPhone screencast - what it could look like
Posted 19 Mar 2009 by Optaros Tags: iPhone, Maps, MMS, Mobile, Rich Internet Application, telco, telecom, User Experience

A lot of interesting and promising features for the iPhone 3.0 OS were presented on March 17.  One of them is the planned MMS support.  As always, the news release from Apple was speculated upon in a number of blogs and articles.  iPhone as broadband modem for your laptop, MMS in general and for AT&T, the lon + Read more

Next Generation Mobile Applications
Posted 10 Feb 2009 by Optaros Tags: Accessibility, Assembled Web, Assembly Methodology, Business Model, Europe, Mobile, multi-channel, Open Source, telco, telecom, User Experience, User-Centered Design, Web 2.0

Mobile Applications are no longer stand alone experiments. As part of our Assembled Web Vision, we help our clients leverage the mobile channel as an integral part of the customer experience that spans web, mobile and offline. + Read more

Open Source Consulting – Doing What is Right for the Customer!
Posted 10 Feb 2009 by Philippe GrosjeanTags: OForge, Open, Open Source, Switzerland, telecom

At Optaros, the customer is king! Our clients' success is our success. This is built-in into the DNA of our consultants. Listening to and understanding our customers' vision, objectives, needs and challenges is key. It allows us to then propose an approach, shape a solution, provide a roadmap, bring best practices into play, define an open, flexible, scalable and evolutionary architecture and implement a solution hitting agreed-upon scopes, milestones and budgets. + Read more

More info on MMS Support for iPhone
Posted 24 Nov 2008 by Optaros Tags: iPhone, MMS, telco, telecom

Last week the news broke that the Swedish / Finnish telco operation Teliasonera is launching an MMS application for the iPhone "within the coming months".   As indicated in my previous blog entry, the MMS client itself comes from a company called Mobispine.  As Optaros is working with a couple of iPhone implementations at the moment, and have a lot of exposure to the telco market, I've tried to understand a bit more about this offering, basically trying to answer the questions I had on the new service. + Read more

MMS Support for iPhone announced by Telia / Sonora
Posted 20 Nov 2008 by Optaros Tags: iPhone, MMS, telco, telecom

In the Swedish edition of Macworld, a statement was issued - confirmed by the head of Public Relations at Telia, that they will be launching an MMS  client for their iPhone customers within the coming months.  Obviously MMS is a "not insignificant" feature lack in the iPhone, certainly for the European market. What Telia brings is an interesting value proposition that I'm sure lots of European iPhone users would be interested in.  Of course, there are MMS options today like Swirly, but then you require a jailbroken 2G or 3G iPhone. + Read more

Mobile Web 2.0 - Open Marketplaces are the foundation for the future of Telecom Operators
Posted 16 Apr 2008 by Optaros Tags: Business Model, customer care, iPhone, long-tail, Mobile, Open, Open Source, telco, telecom, Web 2.0

A next step in opening the telecom operator’s world is to allow partners to leverage the existing telecoms infrastructure. Enabling third parties to leverage native telco assets and resources for new services or for pure reselling will help drastically increasing volume (long tail) and thus impact profitability. + Read more

Open Source CMS - How Telcos can benefit
Posted 14 Apr 2008 by Optaros Tags: Collective Intelligence, Community, Crowdsource, Direct Consumer Engagement, iPhone, long-tail, Mobile, multi-channel, Open, Open Innovation, Open Source, telco, telecom, Web 2.0

The larger telecom operators have been reinventing themselves over the last couple of years again and again. They constantly look to replace voice revenue and profit lost due to competition, they fight price declines, migration and substitution effects. It’s a fine line of introducing new products as needed and demanded and at the same time not to cannibalize the own existing offering. + Read more