‘Technology’ posts

Crowdsourcing: how will Web2.0 affect your business and your customers?

Posted by Optaros on 08 Dec 2008

While Intuit’s innovative customer-driven help model has been featured in a number of recent business books, an interesting follow-up is developing around how that innovation impacts not only the balance sheet, but the company roster. We are starting to see how tapping into the groundswell can affect the flow of information for a given company | View post »

more info on MMS Support for iPhone

Posted by Optaros on 24 Nov 2008

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, | View post »

MMS Support for iPhone announced by Telia / Sonora

Posted by Optaros on 20 Nov 2008

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 | View post »

Open Source CMS – How Telcos can benefit

Posted by Optaros on 14 Apr 2008

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 | View post »

Open Innovation

Posted by Marc Osofsky on 13 Dec 2007

Many consumer product and service companies are looking for ways to accelerate new product introduction and increase the probability of successful product launches. A major part of the Next Generation Internet is the concept of openness – that your customers can now communicate their views on your company and product over the internet and reach | View post »

The Endeca Assembly Experience

Posted by Jim Munz on 08 Nov 2007

The Endeca Developer Network (EDeN) was achieved through the Solution Assembly process (OptAM) and I have been asked why is this different than traditional software integration by colleagues of mine within the industry. The EDeN experience I feel highlights this perfectly. We went from requirements to a Beta release in just 12 weeks. In this | View post »