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GfK’s Digital Market Intelligence (DMI) team has released the first in a planned series of 2013 enhancements to its top-quality solutions for digital ad campaign evaluation, expanding its client dashboard and introducing overlay tagging of ad units.

If you had a chance to listen to my radio interview with IMI TechTalk you know I believe the analytics behinds wearable computing will be a huge business. As sensors and cameras become part of our wardrobe, there will be billions of new data gathering devices connected to the cloud.

Oracle’s pending acquisition of Tekelec furthers its ambitions to provide leadership and a one-stop shop for CSPs looking to build more efficient, intelligent networks while tapping new revenue sources. CSPs will need to weigh the benefits and risks of the integrated solution Oracle is building.

With Visual Analytics, SAS is striving to stay competitive in a market that wants fast yet intuitive front-end products that can help non-technical business users make better-informed decisions. But it is an increasingly crowded space that presents both opportunities and challenges for SAS, which has traditionally catered to highly skilled analysts and power users.

Several matters before the FCC could have substantial dollar and technology impacts for enterprise customers. The FCC’s special access services and USF contribution reform proceedings could significantly affect pricing for enterprise services, beginning sometime in 2014.

Mobile Internet is everywhere. When we are not accessing it in public via cellular 4G LTE, we are using our mobile devices to surf on corporate Wi-Fi networks. But access is not always fair. Sometimes, we just want to quickly check our mails. Or launch a corporate app. And yet, we have to struggle with poor response times because someone is streaming multimedia.

Most fitting to share, I believe, is the discussion that took place in the last seminar I attended. It was all about optimal service delivery. One would think that after four generations of mobile communications, optimal service delivery would be a hard and fast goal for service providers to reach; on the contrary, the seminar proved to me that optimal service delivery is not a clear concept.

I participated in a seminar about "learning from consumer behaviour." It focused on trends that can be identified in the mobile communications world. The general agreement was that the trends pose an opportunity and a threat at the same time.