Bradley de Souza

Enterprise Architecture from a Communications, Media and Entertainment (CME) perspective

Bradley de Souza — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 11:06:20 +0000

I was asked a while ago to share my thoughts on the the topic of Enterprise Architecture (EA) and the problems it addresses in the Communications, Media and Entertainment (CME) arena.

My view is that EA attempts to solve a very complex problem which so far has yet to truly be [...]

Leadership is demonstrated not measured

Bradley de Souza — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 22:48:26 +0000

Over the years I’ve been very fortunate to have experienced both good and bad leaders. It’s easy to learn from a good leader but it’s even easier to learn from a bad one. Bad leaders usually fail with rather easy and obvious to learn lessons for all those observing the [...]

WordPress 2.8

Bradley de Souza — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 23:27:53 +0000

I finally made the move from WordPress version 1.7 to version 2.8. I’m glad to report that it was painless and trouble free.

Rarely do such large moves between versions go well, but in this case, my faith in the WordPress team was not misplaced.

I’ve been using WordPress for a while [...]

Apple App Store – Nobody does it better!?!

Bradley de Souza — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 14:14:58 +0000

Apparently Apple App Store has managed to achieve what many other competitors’ offerings couldn’t, namely usability, take-up, and good, value for money content.

Like so many others before it the (Mobile2Market, Windows Mobile Catalog, NGage, Nokia Download Store, etc.) App Store promises to enhance the end-user’s phone with great content and [...]

Harvey Nash & PA Consulting CIO Event in London

Bradley de Souza — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 22:50:44 +0000

I was recently invited to attend the Harvey Nash & PA Consulting CIO Event in London. Whilst I’m not strictly a CIO these days, I’ve had cause to fulfil that role in the past.

Aside from meeting some very influential people and some old acquaintances, the event was very illuminating.

The highlight [...]

Why the Asus/Acer/Dell… CFO likes the new sub-notebook category

Bradley de Souza — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 17:56:10 +0000

Now that all the notebook manufacturers are racing to the bottom with low priced, sub/mini notebook machines, the CFO’s of these organisations are rubbing their hands with glee.

According to one unnamed CFO, there are many reasons to feel happy about this new category of machine:

The margin on these machines is [...]

Top-up card mis-selling on new networks in Asia

Bradley de Souza — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 06:33:15 +0000

I recently had cause to get some prepaid sims whilst on a trip to Asia. It made sense to have a local number in the countries where I was going to be spending more than a few days.

To that end I was advised by friends and colleagues to go out [...]

Multi-sim, dual sim, i-SmartSim 2008

Bradley de Souza — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 04:35:40 +0000

Whilst on business in Malaysia and Singapore I was surprised to discover mobile operators offering a sim service long since extinct in Europe: Multi-sim.

Essentially multi-sim enables the user to use several sim cards all bearing the same phone number. This means you can have one sim in your main phone, [...]

Don’t get what you want but want what you get!?!

Bradley de Souza — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 04:16:31 +0000

This is the message that the mobile phone industry has been pushing, mainly in European markets. Classic examples are Video calling, MMS, WAP and even Location based services (priced to death for the end-user.)

So why the Buddhist message, the ‘don’t worry be happy,’ ‘want what you get’ approach? The answer [...]

iPhone software development, or not, as the case may be

Bradley de Souza — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 03:28:21 +0000

In what appears to be a master stroke of incompetence or total self absorption, Apple has stifled software development on the iPhone. The inclusion of an NDA as part of the iPhone’s SDK terms and conditions (which developers must agree to,) prevents them from discussing iPhone software development issues with [...]