As the convention is, let me define Digital Rights Management. DRM is an application that attempts to control what buyers can and can’t do with digital media/hardware that they purchase. Simply speaking, it is nothing but conveying the following message to the buyer: ‘Hey you bought it, but you can’t share it’. Read more…

Is the iPhone the future of mobile telecommunications? Will it make obsolete the thousands of handset models in one fail swoop? NO! Not now, not ever.  However, it’s hard to dispute that the iPhone is definitely a game changer – to put it mildly. It has forced the competition to rethink their own strategies across the board from design to features.  Likewise, the social gaming phenomenon sweeping the online world is making more than just ripples. From venture capitalists to mainstream advertisers, from a developer in his garage to gaming giants like Electronic Arts, everyone is in it. Read more…

Today, Telecom carriers are facing challenges in many folds, either in the area of reducing the IT operations cost, rolling out the new value added services/applications for customers, migrating to next generation networks /platforms, or keeping the customer churn controlled.  They actively seek solutions which address the above issues. “Cloud computing” is one such interesting and upcoming trend. Cloud computing offers a means of sharing resources like hardware, software, and data on demand to users. Telecom carriers will soon embrace cloud computing to solve some of the above issues and provide business models like “Infrastructure as a service” or “Pay as you go”. Read more…