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Hans van RietschoteChief Executive OfficerMercury Swan Consulting LLC

Vodafone and AT&T improving in-home mobile reception to boost revenues

June 24, 2009

Analysis of:Vodafone promises indoor mobile signal boost | www.v3.co.uk

More and more people are starting to realize that mobile phones are much more practical than the old fashioned "land line phone". With a mobile phone you are always reachable and a mobile phone has a built-in address book unlike the land line where you have to look up the number (on your mobile phone!) before you can dial it.  Given the almost limitless number of minutes that cell phone plans provide these days, it seems to make sense to abandon the land line. However one problem remains: the cell phone reception inside homes is not always perfect. 

Hans van RietschoteChief Executive OfficerMercury Swan Consulting LLC

AT&T getting ready for 3G data battle with VERIZON, while improving service for their iPhone subscribers

June 24, 2009

Analysis of:AT&T to Unfurl 3G Access in 850MHz to Enhance Coverage | www.phonescoop.com

AT&T is adding major 3G data capacity to its network for several reasons: one to better serve the (new) iPhone subscribers who are all major users of the data network; two to be ready for when the iPhone users start using the tethering feature (where you can use the iPhone to connect your laptop to the Internet) and three be be ready for battle with VERIZON, who still has the better, more capable data network in the USA.

Hans van RietschoteChief Executive OfficerMercury Swan Consulting LLC

Why Dell shouldn't buy Palm, but go with Android

June 19, 2009

Analysis of:Why Dell should buy Palm | www.computerworld.com

I agree with the author of the original article that DELL should have a smart phone offering like all other PC vendors, however Palm is the wrong choice for DELL. DELL has gotten to where they are by making reliable laptops, desktops and servers, that are priced better than their competition. DELL's whole culture is based on efficient manufacturing of no frills computers, Palm's culture is all about design, those two cultures do not work well together.

Hans van RietschoteChief Executive OfficerMercury Swan Consulting LLC

Google Voice offering will make Google a serios telecom player

June 18, 2009

Analysis of:Google Voice secret weapon: number portability | hvrietsc.blogspot.com

Google Voice the VOIP service of Google has lots of interesting features, is well integrated with the rest of the Google services and offers competitive international calling rates. So once it is out of beta and available to the general public it will make Google a serious player in the telecom arena.

Hans van RietschoteChief Executive OfficerMercury Swan Consulting LLC

Cloud services need lots of bandwidth, can we get enough?

June 18, 2009

Analysis of:Replify an interesting start up that can boot your cloud applications | hvrietsc.blogspot.com

Bandwidth is neither free nor readily available in a lot of places in the world. So in order for cloud based services to really be usable we need to use bandwidth improvement products such as the one from Replify. When will big companies pushing for cloud based services start noticing small companies like this?

Hans van RietschoteChief Executive OfficerMercury Swan Consulting LLC

Windows 7, Microsoft's latest Operating System has lots going for it, but it will not revive sluggish PC sales

June 15, 2009

Analysis of:Can windows 7 save the PC market? | hvrietsc.blogspot.com

Microsoft's latest Operating System called Windows 7 (Win7) has lots going for it: new features,  better performance, greener, easier to use etc, but its scheduled release this fall will not significantly boost PC sales. Consumers are not ready to spend extra money while we are in a recession, and more and more consumers are moving to "doing it all in the browser" or cloud computing as the experts call it. Plus with the current smart phones like the iPhone from Apple they are needing a "real" PC less and less.

Hans van RietschoteChief Executive OfficerMercury Swan Consulting LLC

Can we really protect ourselves when on the Internet?

June 15, 2009

Analysis of:What are the most dangerous seearch terms on the Internet? | hvrietsc.blogspot.com

Internet threats like Phishing, man-in-the-browser attacks, and keyloggers are all terms that might sound scary (or not) to the average computer users, but what they do not realize is how vunerable they are when they are simply "surfing the web". Did you know that a certain set of viruses exists that are only detectable when they are running inside your corporate LAN (in other words when it is too late)? How can IT departments protect themselves from undetectable viruses?

Hans van RietschoteChief Executive OfficerMercury Swan Consulting LLC

Why is Symantec partnering with HP for their online backup service?

June 11, 2009

Analysis of:HP to sell Symantec backup service on consumer PCs by Reuters: Yahoo! Tech | tech.yahoo.com

In the consumer security market it is all about getting your product onto the PC before the consumer buys it. So it is essential for a consumer security company like Symantec to partner with the laptop and desktop manufacturers like HP. It also explains why McAfee is hoping to woo the contract away from Symantec.

Hans van RietschoteChief Executive OfficerMercury Swan Consulting LLC

Silicon valley still the place to be for international start-ups

June 10, 2009

Analysis of:Annual French Tech Tour brings some interesting companies to silicon valley | hvrietsc.blogspot.com

Even though we are in the mids of a global recession and money is scarce, international startups still want to set up shop in the very expensive Silicon Valley. Why is that? Well, the Valley offers everything a start-up needs and one year in the Valley is equal to 5 years some place else.

Hans van RietschoteChief Executive OfficerMercury Swan Consulting LLC

the new iPhone could spell trouble for the gadget industry

June 9, 2009

Analysis of:Will the new iPhone make all my other gadgets unecessary? | hvrietsc.blogspot.com

The new iPhone 3GS announced yesterday is not only a phone, but also a music player, a video player, a digital camera, a video recorder, video editing application, voice recorder, Personal Digital Assistant (PDA), and a GPS unit. You can get all of this for $199 plus a cell phone contract (which you already have), which is much cheaper than buying all these gadgets by themselves. Now with the recession going on and people trying to save money will the rest of the gadget industry suffer while Apple thrives?

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