Clarity, the market leader in Unified Operational Support Systems (OSS), has appointed Christopher Smith as Vice President Product Management and Development to drive forward its visionary product roadmap.
With over 15 years experience in the telecommunications industry, Smith has developed a broad range of product development skills encompassing engineering, fulfilment, pre sales, sales, product management and strategy.
Most recently Smith was Vice President of Product Management for Telcord... Read Full Story
Orange Group has signed with Sicap to upgrade its Sicap Device Management Center (DMC). By doing so, Orange Group has confirmed its trust in Sicap to deliver the most advanced and market relevant Device Management (DM) solution at Group level and among its MCOs.
Seven years after purchasing the first Sicap DM software to deliver over-the-air handset configuration for customer care and self-care, Orange Group now deploys the latest version of DMC. After automatic detection of devices as they ... Read Full Story
Comarch has opened a new headquarters in Lille, France. Comarch has been present on the French market since 2007, when the Comarch subsidiary Software SAR.L. was founded. Professor Janusz Filipiak has taken the opportunity provided by the opening of Comarch‘s new headquarters to present the face of the corporate strategy, in the French language, to 60 specially invited guests, including customers, institutions and press.
The geographic choice of location has ensued from an agreement with a l... Read Full Story
cVidya, a leading provider of revenue assurance and dealer management solutions, has launched EZTrust, a system which has been developed to manage contractual disputes between network operators and service providers. It is designed to improve operational efficiencies by automatically verifying and correlating invoices and managing billing queries and disputes against services delivered. With Analyst House Frost and Sullivan estimating that the revenue leakage rate in inter-carrier billing fo... Read Full Story
Scott Kingsley Clark recently spoke at the WordPress WordCamp Dallas 2009.
Scott wrote a song for the occasion, called “Using WordPress as a CMS”. Check out the video, there’s a studio version of the song coming out soon:
Using Wordpress as a CMS from Charles Williams on Vimeo. Read Full Story
Yesterday, June 25, 2009, when the news broke that Michael Jackson had died, many people went online and went over to Twitter. We searched. And we searched for news about Michael Jackson. Soon, we began to see everyone talking about Michael Jackson’s untimely death on Twitter. But we also continue to see people gaming the Twitter search engine.
Mark Jackson (no, he’s not related to Michael Jackson) was recently interviewed about Twitter search.
Lately, there has been a lot of... Read Full Story
Amazon.com has “jumped the gun” so to speak and shut down its affiliate program, the Amazon Associates Program, to associates who live in the State of North Carolina. Amazon.com is taking this unprecedented step of shutting down their affiliate program ahead of what they’re calling an “unconstitutional tax collection scheme expected to be passed any day now by the North Carolina state legislature (the General Assembly) and signed by the governor.”
I have receiv... Read Full Story
Martin Group, a global provider of enterprise-wide communications solutions, next generation engineering, and consulting services, has announced today that David P. McClure, President & CEO for US Internet Industry Association, will deliver the keynote address at Martin Group’s 2009 User Meeting and Technology Conference—Revenue 360—being held September 8-11, 2009 in Austin, Texas.
More critical than the actual build out of the nation’s broadband infrastructure is how communications prov... Read Full Story
Zuberance, a Word of Mouth marketing company that provides an on-demand platform that enables B2B and B2C marketers to identify and mobilize their Advocates, generating leads and sales, is hosting a free webinar on June 24th (today) 11 AM Pacific Time about how to turn “word of mouth” into actual sales.
What is Word of Mouth Marketing?
Word of mouth is a pre-existing phenomenon that marketers are only now learning how to harness, amplify, and improve. Word of mouth marketing isn... Read Full Story
TM Forum, the world’s premier industry group focused on business effectiveness for the communications and media sectors, announced the launch of a Certified Compliance Testing program. The new program offers reassurance to communications service providers seeking to future-proof their IT architecture through use of TM Forum’s proven and flexible set of Solution Frameworks (NGOSS).
The Certified Compliance Testing service - the first of its kind for the industry - will allow suppliers to... Read Full Story