When the value of the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. As service providers around the world are continuing their journey to transform themselves to”experience providers“, one potential avenue for increased revenue is creative new partnerships with web service providers, or WSPs. WSPs like Google, Yahoo, MySpace, FaceBook, YouTube, Twitter, Flickr, Travelocity, EBay and others, are establishing themselves as essential to…

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Hi. Cisco ASR Edge Master Webster here. I’m pleased to be officially announcing the Cisco Edge Quest Tournament of Aces. Thousands have played Cisco Edge Quest, an online game we introduced when we launched the new Cisco ASR 1000 Series Routers, the world’s most powerful compact router. In the game, players maneuver a hypercraft modeled after the router through various levels and increasingly use its capabilities to defend the n…

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In advance of our recent Cisco ASR launch in which we embraced a whole range of Web 2.0 vehicles, we thought that creating a Facebook group to bring about a community of like-minded folks around technology was only appropriate. Our hope was that the group would gain traction not so much to market to but rather to learn from and frankly just as a forum where we can have some fun, too. Fortunately, things turned out just that way -while the Cisc…

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Last week I received my long awaited Sony mylo (which stands for My Life Online, and is NOT CAPITALIZED), a personal communicator that used Wi-Fi rather than Cellular technologies to support its communications capabilities. The mylo, according to Sony’s marketing spiel, allows you to put the “entire world under your thumbs” (take that, Mick Jagger), and allows you to “take the best part of your computer with you” w…

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…TV set-top box, using a next-generation TV service   Here’s how those services ranked and grew from our initial CLUE report in March 2010: At Home 2008 2009 Index Value Change Percentage Change Social media 22.31 23.27 0.96 4.3% Online video 15.87 16.83 0.96 6.0% Consumer instant messaging 14.33 15.06 0.73 5.1% Next-generation TV 14.13 14.81 0.68 4.8% Online music 12.55 13.69 1.14 9.1% Online gaming 11.76 13.15 1.40 11.9% Consu…

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