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Hans van RietschoteChief Executive OfficerMercury Swan Consulting LLC

Cisco slowly making strategy changes as the world moves to cloud services

July 1, 2009

Analysis of:Cisco Won't Take on Amazon in Cloud | www.pcworld.com

Cisco is realizing that over time more and more of their current customers will be moving to cloud based services, but unlike others they will not provide cloud "capacity" instead focusing on Software as a Service (SaaS) offerings and the "tools" needed to run an efficient cloud offering.

Hans van RietschoteChief Executive OfficerMercury Swan Consulting LLC

Waiting for the iPhone app that can target ads specifically to the individual user

June 30, 2009

Analysis of:AdMob Report: Apple Gains in Mobile Usage | theappleblog.com

It looks like the iPhone is not just another smart phone. iPhones (and the non phone version the iTouch) are responsible for 70% of the 3.8 billion ad views done in the USA by smart phones. Worldwide the iPhone does 31.4% of a total of 8 billion ad views. So isn't it about time to target ads to the iPhone specifically?

Hans van RietschoteChief Executive OfficerMercury Swan Consulting LLC

Is Google going to use their dark fiber to create a competing voice network?

June 29, 2009

Analysis of:Internet Telephony: Google Voice | www.pcmag.com

PC magazine did their typical in-depth review of Google Voice and found it to be very good. The only thing missing they said is consistent call quality. And as others have pointed out before it will be hard for Google to control this quality, or will it?

Hans van RietschoteChief Executive OfficerMercury Swan Consulting LLC

Intel and Nokia working togehter to create the laptop and smart phone successor

June 29, 2009

Analysis of:Nokia and Intel Look to the Future of Mobile Devices | www.wirelessweek.com

Intel and Nokia are working together to create a new "device" that will not only be the successor to the laptop but also to the smart phone. This new product will have all the advantages of the smart phone and all the advantages of the laptop/netbook.

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?

Paul MassieSenior Director Operations & ITYouSendIt Inc

Cisco Gives Money to Brocade!

June 15, 2009

Analysis of:Brocade Crushing Cisco In High-End Storage Switches | blogs.barrons.com

The repercussions from Cisco’s foray into the server market may be happening somewhat sooner and possibly on a larger scale than anticipated.  It’s too soon to draw definite conclusions, but Brocade is taking market share from Cisco for some reason!

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