tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243110883198341706.post390334980235499308..comments2024-03-26T07:07:00.123-04:00Comments on Strategy and Business Innovation for Connectivity and Digital Economy Markets: Innovating and Investing Strategically in New Service Categories More-with-Mobilehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18276365732789716017noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243110883198341706.post-42578284054429890162023-12-18T15:09:29.258-05:002023-12-18T15:09:29.258-05:0018 December 2023 update
Apple approaches Goldman ...18 December 2023 update<br /><br />Apple approaches Goldman Sachs to wind down card partnership<br /><br />Apple has proposed winding down its credit card and savings account partnership with Goldman Sachs sooner than planned.<br /><br />https://www.ft.com/content/efb5d4b3-5071-41ab-b12c-8e074b2d820d<br />Kenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04424413314996208873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243110883198341706.post-71274900338819112302022-04-19T10:05:41.471-04:002022-04-19T10:05:41.471-04:0019 April 2022 update
Shameful: Insteon looks dead...19 April 2022 update<br /><br />Shameful: Insteon looks dead—just like its users’ smart homes<br /><br />The app and servers are dead. The CEO scrubbed his LinkedIn page. No one is responding.<br /><br />The smart home company Insteon has vanished.<br /><br />The entire company seems to have abruptly shut down just before the weekend, breaking users' cloud-dependent smart-home setups without warning. Users say the service has been down for three days now despite the company status page saying, "All Services Online." The company forums are down, and no one is replying to users on social media.<br /><br />As Internet of Things reporter Stacey Higginbotham points out, high-ranking Insteon executives, including CEO Rob Lilleness, have scrubbed the company from their LinkedIn accounts. In the time it took to write this article, Lilleness also removed his name and picture from his LinkedIn profile. It seems like that is the most communication longtime Insteon customers are going to get.<br /><br />Insteon is (or, more likely, "was") a smart home company that produced a variety of Internet-connected lights, thermostats, plugs, sensors, and of course, the Insteon Hub. At the core of the company was Insteon's propriety networking protocol, which was a competitor to more popular and licensable alternatives like Z-Wave and Zigbee. Insteon's "unique and patented dual-mesh technology" used both a 900 MHz wireless protocol and powerline networking, which the company said created a more reliable network than wireless alone. The Insteon Hub would bridge all your gear to the Internet and enable use of the Insteon app.<br /><br />https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/04/shameful-insteon-looks-dead-just-like-its-users-smart-homes/Kenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04424413314996208873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243110883198341706.post-46525144791066165242019-05-29T10:58:11.516-04:002019-05-29T10:58:11.516-04:0029 May 2019 update
Via FT (paywall) LEX article a...29 May 2019 update<br /><br />Via FT (paywall) LEX article about Airtel in Africa.<br /> <br /><br />"A comparison with South African telecoms company MTN might be relevant for the rest of the business — mostly mobile voice services with data services accounting for just over a fifth of sales. MTN’s enterprise value is 4.6 times its forward ebitda, while Safaricom is 7.6 times".<br /><br />Kenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04424413314996208873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243110883198341706.post-74597272473120360452019-04-26T11:37:50.278-04:002019-04-26T11:37:50.278-04:0026 April 2019 update
https://www.smartcitiesworld...26 April 2019 update<br /><br />https://www.smartcitiesworld.net/special-reports/think-bigger-how-to-scale-smart-city-pilots<br /><br /> <br /><br />Nathan Pierce (Programme Director at Sharing Cities, Greater London Authority) said: “One thing that we as cities need to improve on is how we actually express the outcomes that we’re working towards.”<br /> <br />He noted that clients and investors want to see “a pipeline of opportunities” that can be enabled by technology to make it more investable. Considering smart lamp posts, for example, he said: “The interest might not just be in the model around saving money through LEDs, but also what else you could do over the next five, ten and fifteen years that could generate some income, which would be attractive to investors and suppliers as well.”<br /><br /><br />Kenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04424413314996208873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243110883198341706.post-28672506107369115472018-11-08T17:11:03.947-05:002018-11-08T17:11:03.947-05:008 November 2018 update
The iStore is a perfect ex...8 November 2018 update<br /><br />The iStore is a perfect example of how we can make money – Vodafone<br /><br />Atul Purohit from Vodafone Group pointed towards the slow-burning and long-term investments made in creating the app store as the way to make money in the digital economy. <br /><br />With 5G, MEC and IoT trends starting to make more concrete impacts on the real world, Purohit suggested a platform model should be built these technologies, with the telcos forming the centre of the ecosystem.<br /><br /><br /><br />http://telecoms.com/493455/the-istore-is-a-perfect-example-of-how-we-can-make-money-vodafone/<br />More-with-Mobilehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18276365732789716017noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243110883198341706.post-51775285822826432152018-09-19T12:10:45.499-04:002018-09-19T12:10:45.499-04:0019 Sep 2018 update
Interesting to see how Safaric...19 Sep 2018 update<br /><br />Interesting to see how Safaricom is looking into new avenues for expansion.<br /><br />“When Michael Joseph was chief executive, if he had not invested in M-Pesa, we would be talking about a different story today. We want to focus on what the customer needs today and where they are taking that need over the next few years.” <br /><br />Top on Collymore’s bets is Masoko, the online trading platform launched last year and which the company hopes will become a leading e-commerce service in the region in the mold of Alibaba and Amazon.<br /><br />https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/business/article/2001296019/focus-now-on-collymore-s-last-days-in-corner-officeMore-with-Mobilehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18276365732789716017noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243110883198341706.post-34710745045906239552018-05-02T20:23:11.491-04:002018-05-02T20:23:11.491-04:002 May 2018 update
Safaricom, Kenya’s biggest tele...2 May 2018 update<br /><br />Safaricom, Kenya’s biggest telecoms company, is piloting a social messaging app that will link to its mobile money platform in an attempt to move the company into the application business.<br /><br />https://www.reuters.com/article/us-kenya-telecoms/kenyas-safaricom-pilots-messaging-app-linked-to-mobile-money-idUSKBN1I24A7?il=0<br /> More-with-Mobilehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18276365732789716017noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243110883198341706.post-84052265255856341472018-02-25T12:46:49.133-05:002018-02-25T12:46:49.133-05:0025 Feb 2018 update
Vodafone has teamed up with Sa...25 Feb 2018 update<br /><br />Vodafone has teamed up with Samsung to expand its consumer IoT offering, with the first combined service providing monitoring solutions for the home.<br />The V-Home by Vodafone service will bring together the operator’s IoT management platform with Samsung’s SmartThings devices. <br /><br />https://eurocomms.com/industry-news/12890-vodafone-partners-with-samsung-to-secure-the-smart-homeMore-with-Mobilehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18276365732789716017noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243110883198341706.post-1290566071827276102018-02-19T11:47:31.138-05:002018-02-19T11:47:31.138-05:0019 Feb 2018 update
In the context of security and...19 Feb 2018 update<br /><br />In the context of security and the role for regulation in the IoT sector - <br /><br />"A cooperative approach could ensure safer products and a more stable and secure IoT network. It is only through a robust IoT infrastructure that public sector bodies will be able to successfully take advantage of the IoT" <br /><br />https://www.publictechnology.net/articles/opinion/does-uk-need-iot-regulator#More-with-Mobilehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18276365732789716017noreply@blogger.com