Telcosphère 5: les mutations des services Telecom
Posted by François Mouillaud in Telecom, Networks&Media on May 14th, 2009
Le 11 mai 2009, la communauté Telecom Networks & Media a organisé la 5ème édition de la Telcosphère, que vous connaissez bien désormais en fidèles lecteurs de ce blog !
La Telcosphère 5 a permis d’appréhender la mutation des services Telecom, sous quatre angles différents:
- L’évolution (émulation, simulation, transport) des services classiques du réseau commuté (PSTN et ISDN) vers l’IMS
- Les nouveaux services enrichis (à travers l’initiative “Rich Communication Suite”), comme le carnet d’adresse amélioré, le messaging amélioré, ou l’appel enrichi
- Les nouveaux services convergents – par exemple interaction entre services de téléphonie et IPTV - (à travers un Proof of Concept réalisé par Devoteam Telecom & Media en Belgique)
- Les évolutions du marché à travers la vision “Telco 2.0″ de Devoteam Consulting

New economic models to be found for Internet Content
Posted by Patrick Chataignier in Telecom, Networks&Media on May 11th, 2009
It seems that Internet is just about to being born. In fact, all the current discussions regarding the good practices and the bad ones (illegal download) will trigger a legal frame for this common service (see my first article on this blog). For the time being, the baby has just got a name…but a lot remains to be done to give this child a life of his own among us. Lire la suite de l’article »
The Pirates Empire strikes back
Posted by Pierre-Antoine Blondel in Telecom, Networks&Media on May 11th, 2009
French website www.jaimelesartistes.fr (”I like artists”) was definitely closed in the middle of March. This site, aimed at a young audience, had been launched a few months before by the government in order to explain how illegal downloads work against the cultural industry and the artists themselves. The government intended to convince the evil constellation of pirates that its “graduated answer” reform (or so called “Hadopi law”) was the right thing to do.
Digital content sharing: Beyond good and evil…
Posted by Pierre-Antoine Blondel in Telecom, Networks&Media on May 11th, 2009
Friedrich Nietzsche, the famous german philosopher said once : “There is no moral phenomena at all, only moral interpretation of phenomena“. The lessons of this teaching is not to forget about moral, but to understand that the same phenomena could be analyzed differently than from a moral point of view. And I choosed to give you an insight of the digital cultural sharing from the IT industry business interests point of view. If I may take Nietzsche words, I’ll say that this article is an interpretation of digital cultural sharing beyond good and evil…
Is the media industry becoming totally mad?
Posted by Frédéric Abella in Telecom, Networks&Media on May 11th, 2009
What is happening? Is the media industry becoming totally mad?
A telephone company has its own TV channel, instead of being only a pipe provider. Newspapers provide extra services and their content on internet instead of publishing everyday news on paper. Nobody knows what is a book anymore. It could include video, music, and even books instead of a simple text and sometimes pictures. A telephone is not a handset to talk with other people. It is a “handtop” to read news or watch movies and sometimes you can even use it to make a call.
Everyone does everything, and we, users, customers, are lost. We are lost because the world we are used to is changing. Not only one single pillar of the old universe is, but all at the same time. And this is happening fast. So fast that some old well-established companies are dying in front of us without even understanding why. Lire la suite de l’article »
What future for broadcast mobile TV?
Posted by Yann Desjardins in Telecom, Networks&Media on May 11th, 2009
Nowadays operators and media players are looking for common revenue opportunities. In the last years they have been collaborating through the launch of many new TV services, such as IPTV and mobile TV. In research for higher quality mobile TV experience, a new trend is up with broadcast mobile TV.

Forecasters argue that this market should explode in the next 2 years, but the first services launched in Japan, Korea, USA and western Europe are experiencing difficulties to become profitable. With the knowledge of these first experiences, players involved in the development of upcoming European services need to make key decisions for the future.
New era of music and video content industry
Posted by Pierre-Antoine Blondel in Telecom, Networks&Media on May 11th, 2009
The music and video content industry has just entered a new era of changes with the exponential developments of the digital and dematerialized content consumption and new usages, facilitated by the new Web 2.0 trends and sharing technologies. These changes have for example recently resulted in one of the most noticeable event of the last view months in the dematerialized music industry: the beginning of the end of the DRM protection on downloadable music tracks, move having been initiated by Apple on iTunes.
“Virtual green cloud” and Leasing: weapons against the economic black cloud?
Posted by Stephanie Meyer in Telecom, Networks&Media on May 11th, 2009
Today’s macroeconomic conditions make analysts rather pessimistic about IT and telecom spending, with a stagnation or a slight decline foreseen for almost every kind of equipment (telecom, desktops, servers, printers…) and a minor increase for services.
In this crisis context analysts keep delivering positive forecasts only for technologies which help companies’ projects linked to IT rationalization, data center consolidation or outsourcing. Cloud computing, virtualization, software-as-a-service, open source software are today’s hype technologies from their point of view. Lire la suite de l’article »
Orange Liveradio : a leverage for Orange to become the leader on IP radio broadcasting?
Posted by Hugues Pouilie in Telecom, Networks&Media on May 11th, 2009
Orange: a leader OEM on IP radio devices
As part of its global strategy in promoting a full ecosystem of services around its domestic gateway (Livebox), Orange has launched recently its new version of its IP radio device – the Liveradio Vintage, a retro declination the former Liveradio model including also additional improved features (Tuner, Ethernet port, higher audio quality). Lire la suite de l’article »
Mobile Internet Devices Expansion
Posted by Pierre-Antoine Blondel in Telecom, Networks&Media on May 11th, 2009
A MID (Mobile Internet Device) is a connected terminal (WiFi, possibly 3G) with a 8′ screen maximum and a day battery minimum. It involves netbooks, smartphones, MP3 players, portable games consoles…



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