Mobile Phone | Bradley de Souza

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

Monday, 26th of April 2010 at 12:06:20 PM

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 understood. From a legacy environment perspective (which refers to most large corporates) the issue is clear: How do we get from a slum, favela, shanty-town, to a modern planned city with great infrastructure, shared services, schools, businesses, housing etc.?

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Apple App Store – Nobody does it better!?!

Saturday, 6th of December 2008 at 03:14:58 PM

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 better functionality through third party content and applications.

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

Friday, 8th of August 2008 at 05:16:31 AM

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 lies in the fact that customers often need a push to take up new technology and services. Without this so called ‘push’ we wouldn’t be using the Internet on the phone or taking/sending as many pictures.

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LTE (Long Term Evolution, aka 4G) – some key points

Friday, 18th of July 2008 at 10:55:13 PM

LTE or 4G is the planned replacement for GSM, CDMA and 3G. It’s widely expected to usher in another period of communication harmony similar to that of the GSM era (which has now been fractured by 3G.)

Most mobile phones made today have to support a wide variety of radio frequencies, standards and antennas in order to provide users with coverage (data aswell as voice) as they move around both domestically and internationally. This includes support for Wi-Fi, Bluetooth (all versions,) GPS and possibly WiMAX and even FM radio. This increases costs as well as performance issues for the various technologies in use. Interference has to be managed aggressively in order to prevent problems like Bluetooth usage affecting GSM/CDMA/3G performance (a classic use case when wearing a Bluetooth headset.)

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iGoogle versus Netvibes

Sunday, 13th of July 2008 at 07:53:08 PM

Up until very recently I was a big fan of iGoogle, advocating it to friends and family, aswell as using it on my mobile phone. Unfortunately Google decided to ‘improve’ iGoogle and make it less usable for long time users like myself.

I like to be able to review a dozen or so rss feeds through iGoogle, clicking through to the whole story on the actual originating website. The new iGoogle now loads click-throughs directly on the same page, expanding the rss pane to include the full specified rss content. This isn’t what I want and I believe other iGoogle users will feel the same. People want to click-through to the actual site to see the content in situ with all the features and functionality of the originating site. Usually this includes related stories, more pictures, and generally a more feature rich experience.

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