Tag: digital
In case you hadn’t noticed, the word digital is everywhere. We’re all digitally transforming or digitally enabling or embracing the digital economy (or not). There are those of us who hate the word because it seems oddly out of date – telecoms having ‘gone digital’ decades ago. We remember when digitalisation simply meant making information […]
News highlights for 16 August 2017 Digicel accuses US rival of ‘victim shaming’ in $60m counterclaim Digicel, the Caribbean mobile operator owned by Denis O’Brien, has accused a US telco of deploying “shock and awe” tactics in a legal dispute. The comments were in response to a $60 million counterclaim launched by the US company […]
Telecommunication providers all have a digital strategy and are assuming that evolving to digital will help them generate new revenues and capture market share. These same telcos have enabled over the top players (OTT) to access to their subscriber base by providing that last mile connectivity, through mobile and broadband services. These same telcos have […]
GREEN BAY, Wisc. (Reuters) – A new regulation that will force U.S. trucking companies to electronically log employee hours is designed to limit accidents by keeping tired drivers off the road. It may also drive smaller trucking firms out of business. A trucking industry survey earlier this year of mostly small operators found that 84 […]
(Reuters) – U.S. retailer Target Corp will focus on enhancing technologies that improve the customers’ store experience and on other digital efforts, Chief Information Officer Mike McNamara said. Target will focus on its website, Target.com, and offline-online digital experience such as order pickup and digital marketing, McNamara said in a blog post on the company’s […]
LONDON (Reuters) – Consumer goods maker Reckitt Benckiser has ramped up its efforts to sell items such as condoms and vitamins online, aiming to capture new revenue streams as traditional markets get more competitive. Reckitt’s own Durex condom website in China is already its single largest customer in the world’s fastest-growing e-commerce market, doubling the […]
According to the news, hackers were able to steal digital currency Ether tokens (on the Ethereum platform) equivalent of more than $50 million in June. The Ethereum community has solutions to freeze and return stolen tokens. The hacker group Anonymous has conducted cyber attacks against terrorist organizations. Technology companies like Facebook and Apple want to […]
Not a year goes by in the telecoms space where we don’t have a hype cycle around some technology trend. In 2016, it’s a combination of 5G, the IoT and the digital economy, which are actually geared towards the same general vision of the future in which economy will largely be driven by digital services […]
Communications service providers are already participating in digital ecosystems but they are finding some aspects of it rather challenging. In order to enable and integrate new digital services to enhance their offerings they need to adopt new business models that are both relevant and personalized for their customers. By doing this they aim to improve […]
In the last few months it seems that the telco world has gritted its teeth. The digital revolution has come. For a long time, there was the usual telco attitude, one that Douglas Adams described as putting up a ‘somebody else’s problem field.’ That, it seems, has changed. In fact, according to a vendor of […]
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