The threat of cloud providers closing is a very real one, and any business or indeed individual needs to be aware of the risks involved when purchasing cloud services. In theory, there is nothing stopping a cloud...
Yesterday, we looked at some of the biggest stories of 2013 and discussed how they effected the technology community. Here we look at some trends that I think we will see develop in the internet industry in 2014 ...
Like something resembling a superhero movie, Monday morning brought a very curious piece of news. The often fractious group of companies, sometimes known as the Internet Giants, put their differences aside to fig...
Last week Icann, the governing body for Internet names and addresses, announced that it was to distance itself from the United States and become a more globally focused organization. Welcome news indeed and a mov...
Last year I had the opportunity to introduce a new program called ‘the OX GTM Program’ (Go-to-Market) which was kicked-off as a support program for OX client partners. In this pilot program, OX sales and marketin...
Guest Blog by Phil Shih, Structure Research Given the pace of the market’s development hosters have not been compelled to move very quickly. Many services still look the same as they did a decade ago. But that co...
We have talked with hosting companies in Europe over the last six months or so to gauge their reactions to the revelations about alleged spying and data privacy breaches, and to see what effect these have had on ...
Personal information about the people in our lives is typically kept in different places. These places can be one or more email accounts, one or more social/professional networks or one or more messaging/chat ser...
Perhaps the most common type of subscription is the mobile phone. Almost all of us have one; many even have two – business and personal. The United Nations’ telecoms agency, the ITU, has predicted that by the end...
Semil Shah’s “Rethinking the Seductiveness of Mobile-First” article published recently in TechCrunch was a breath of fresh air. Here is a writer, focusing mostly on mobile, suggesting that mobile may not necessar...
