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"Irrational exuberance" has, from time to time, been a major problem in the global telecommunications business. Contestants sometimes have paid too much to acquire assets. We use passwords, PIN codes, gestures and encryption to try and protect our devices. Now, Apple is upping the stake with the first mass market smartphone with a fingerprint scanner built into it. The iPhone 5S has a home button that doubles as a thumb scan, not only to unlock the phone but also your iTunes account, and potentially other apps. Is it a step in the right direction, though? First, let's see how the iPhone scanner works, and then think about what it may mean for the future of mobile devices, and security in general. Sponsored By: Software Telco Congress - November 20-21, 2013 - Santa Clara, CA
The Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) market is predicted to reach $6B by 2018. As network hardware begins to be replaced by software, carriers are expected to save money and benefit greatly from new levels of flexibility related to powering their network functions in private and virtual private clouds. Attend Software Telco Congress and learn how the move to software will:
- reduce operator CAPEX and OPEX
- reduce power consumption
- reduce time-to-market for new network services
- speed ROI for new services
- allow for greater flexibility to scale up, scale down or evolve services
- provide opportunities to trial and deploy new innovative services at lower risk
- leverage open-source
Before we get to the numbers themselves, let's note a couple of things. First, it appears that Facebook is now experimenting with the idea of literally tracking every user's cursor movements when they are on Facebook pages. Literally. Facebook now plans to uncover exactly where that curser is headed at all times, where it sits, and what it means the user is doing. It's all still a research project, and there is no mention of whether or not users will have the option to allow or not allowing tracking should it ever be rolled out. The 19th Century American essayist Charles Dudley Warner is responsible for the saying, "Politics makes strange bedfellows." Given the political discord that has been roiling Washington, D.C. for several years that has brought the legislative process to something slower than a crawl, Warner would be pleased to point out, "I told you so!" Things are going well for Tesla and its battery partner Panasonic. The recent Tesla Fire investigation has concluded with no problems found for Tesla, which supports Tesla's argument that the battery package performed as designed the problems resulted from the fire department punching holes in it. If stock voice communication isn't quite free yet, it is on a path to reaching zero cost within the next five years over IP-based networks, including both wireless and wireline. Netflix' desire to air new movies on its OTT service the same day they hit cinemas is hardly surprising given past initiatives by stakeholders along with the greatly diminished value of first-run movies when they finally make it to premium "movie channel" that viewers pay extra for monthly. Customer satisfaction is a subtle thing, no matter what the J.D. Power and other surveys suggest about customer-perceived differences between service providers and devices. The problem is that "satisfaction" does not always translate directly into "loyalty." In other words, happy customers often will leave a provider, while unhappy customers will stay.
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