Apple will prevent third party developers from using its iPhone platform to enable location based advertising, in a move which is perhaps designed to protect its own future plans in the mobile ad space.
Middle East and African regional operator Zain has announced that its talismanic managing director and deputy chairman Saad Al Barrak has resigned. In a brief statement the firm said that the chairman would convene the board to discuss the news.
Telecoms.com caught up with Ross Cormak, CEO of Omani operator Nawras at the recent GSM>3G Middle East Telco World Summit in Dubai.
There can’t be many carrier CEOs who are likened to fathers by their staff. Saad Al Barrak, the talismanic managing director and deputy chairman of Middle East and African regional operator Zain, seems to be one of them, though. So there were some distraught Zainers out there this week as Al Barrak handed in his resignation. The move fuelled speculation on what analysts are calling a “divergence of vision” between Al Barrak as the company’s owners, Zain’s board of directors promptly accepted the notice, which will become effective on March 1.
The much discussed ‘Google phone’ became a commercial reality at the beginning of the year, when the web giant unveiled the first of its own-brand devices – the Nexus One. The announcement raised a number of eyebrows and even more questions.
Despite the proliferation of smartphones and efforts of promoting native development and runtime platforms, web-based services are emerging as cost-effective challengers that could take application runtime to the web environment. Not only will this allow the development of cheaper and advanced applications, but it could also shift computing resources and their management from the device to the cloud, which could in turn lower the barriers for enabling advanced applications over non-smartphone terminals.
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Early adopters put up with a lot. They risked crippling back injuries to tote the first portable laptop computers. They paid over the odds for broadband for the pleasure of being “always on,” albeit at 512Kbps. They overlooked the many failings of numerous generations of smartphones to access the Internet on the move. So it should come as no surprise that the latest trend to sweep the telecoms and media markets should prove to be a bit of a disappointment.