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The Weekly Roundup: Friday 19 December

Merry Christmas from Convergence Conversations.

Here's the last weekly roundup of 2008. It's been a fantastic year in the world of convergence, and Convergence Conversations has grown from strength to strength.

A huge thank you to all of you that have blogged, engaged, participated and attended the evening events. Next year's conversation evenings will kick off at the end of January, so keep an eye out for more information upon eveyones return from the Christmas break.

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Estonia is to become the first country to allow citizens to vote via mobile phone.

In this unprecedented move, the Estonian Government aims to allow its citizens to vote via text message for the 2011 parliamentary election. It was only last year that Estonians were enabled to cast Internet ballots. In this new strive to 'digitise democracy’; citizens will be supplied with a free authorised chip, working to verify the users identity before any vote can be cast.

Of course the word that will currently be screaming from your lips is 'Securrrrity'? However Estonian officials seem convinced of the technologies safety. More...

The Weekly Roundup: Friday 12 December

Once again its time for the weekly roundup of the best blogs on convergenceconversation.com

Making the short list this week are Benoit Feltons 'peek at the future of innovation', Simon Torrences look at the key ingredients for 'Telco 2.0', and Dave Birch's amusing jouney through the world of the 'fax machine' in the 21st C. This week also marks the first birthday of the BBC iPlayer, and convergence conversation lets you know how to keep up to date with the celebrations. More...

To mark this special date, the BBC has re-named today ‘iPlayer Day’ and will be blogging throughout the day with the latest statistics, information, and stories from the past year.

In the last 12 months since the soft launch of the BBC’s iPlayer service, it’s fair to say that the UK has witnessed a mini content revolution. Whilst there were a few teething problems at the testing stage, most technical issues were resolved before the soft launch in mid December and hard launch on Christmas Day 2008. To date the iPlayer story has been one of utter success.

Surprisingly (and it was surprising for many of us, including the BBC) the runaway reason for the iPlayer services success, was the ability for consumers to stream content as opposed to download. More...

The Weekly Roundup: Friday 5 December

As we reach the end of the first week in December '08 and the countdown to christmas truly begins, the latest blogs on convergence conversation prove the technology industry is in the antithesis of 'winding down'.

Making the short list this week comes the news of investments to bring fibre to New Delhi homes, how the Public Sector must intervene to ensure NGA , and the latest installment of Simon Torrance’s ‘Ring! Ring! Hot News’.

Read on to be informed, stimulated, agree and disagree with the top blogs on Convergence Conversations this week!

Ring! Ring! Hot News, 1st December 2008

by Simon Torrance of STL partners

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The Weekly Roundup: Friday 28th November

Convergence Conversation has seen some excellent blogs this week and this is your opportunity to consume the best bits in a handy bite sized newsletter.

Making the short list this week are tips on how to own your very own fiber, why future UK unemployment woes can be solved by FTTH credits, and the latest installment of Simon Torrance’s ‘Ring! Ring! Hot News’.

Read on to be informed, stimulated, agree and disagree with the top blogs on Convergence Conversations this week!

Ring! Ring! Hot News, 24th November, 2008

by Simon Torrance of STL partners

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The Weekly Roundup: Friday 21st November

Over the last 5 days we’ve seen a fantastic mix of all things under the convergence umbrella. This week's newsletter pays specific homage to those blogs surrounding the NGA debate. From the ongoing debates surrounding intelligent pipes, to the declaration of universal broadband in the UK, and on into questions of the broadband frontier itself.

Read on to be informed, stimulated, agree and disagree with the top blogs on Convergence Conversations this week!

UK Universal Broadband - declared on Nov 5th

by mike kiely of London

The UK newish  Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Communications, Technology and Broadcasting,  Lord Carter of Barnes in his opening speech to the Lords on the 5th of November,  made four wishes,  1)full digital television service available on multiple platforms,  2) a universally available More...

An extremely interesting article posted on the BBC website today by Bill Thompson regarding cloud computing.

In simple terms cloud computing is the process of businesses storing their information at another organisations data centre, as opposed to their own desktops or local servers. This then in turn frees up resources and memory.

Much has been said regarding the benefits of cloud computing, and rightly so. However Bill raises some intriguing questions about the barriers of cloud computing and the inherent dangers of data sharing. The danger lies in the breaches of confidential information highlighted by the numerous data breaches scattering the news in recent years. More...

The Weekly Roundup: Friday 24th October

Friday’s crept around once again, and that means it’s time for the weekly round-up of the hottest topics on Convergence Conversations from the last 5 days.

The best blogs this week included Phillip Sheldrake’s analysis of international broadband one-up man-ship, Peter Shearman’s take on ‘Digital Britain’, a guest post from Simon Torrance regarding Mobile WiMAX, and Dave Birch searching for needles in haystacks.

And if you want to understand how the economic crisis will affect technology companies, make sure you sign up for the next Convergence Conversation on October 30th.

The Weekly Roundup: Friday 17th October

Here's this week's roundup of the hot topics on Convergence Conversations.

Its that time of the week again! Are you ready to read the best stories from Convergence Conversations over the last 5 days?

Lots of great blogs once more covering some very important and challenging topics. More finance related matters make the cut with news of the next convergence evening on October 30th. This next conversation will analyse how technology companies are likely to fair in an economic downturn, with key speakers confirmed from J.P.Morgan, Intel Consulting, Enders Analysis, and Ingenious Consulting. More...