Convergence Conversation Info 26th June 2009

The Weekly Roundup: Friday 26 June

Read on to be informed, stimulated, agree and disagree with the hottest blogs from this week’s ConvergenceConversation.com

Elastic Domains - NextGen Killer App?
by Guy Jarvis of Fibrestream

Cloud Computing and particularly the endgame of Elastic Domains is a key driver for business competitiveness particularly in rural areas, as it eliminates the need for businesses to buy and maintain high cost desktop, laptop, telephone and server systems on site. In order to realise these benefits, this requires a quality, consistent and symmetric, same upload and download, of 1Mbps per staff member.

Elastic Domain Cloud Computing readily generates ongoing cost savings of 30% to 40% which is hugely significant when you consider a conventional 30 users business network has a 3 year Total Cost of Ownership of £150,000 or more. More...

About Cloud
by Philip Sheldrake of Racepoint Group

Last night's Convergence Conversation was revealing in what it did not reveal. With experts from PA Consulting, Vizioncore, Memset, various analyst houses and the legal profession (including our esteemed hosts Bird & Bird), you'd think we'd have enough brainpower and complimentary skills to paint the finest picture of Cloud to help Cloud-newbies get in on the action.

But what is Cloud?

Some participants didn't think we needed to define it. Personally, I'm not sure how a group can discuss any thing without a common agreement on what the thing is, so, as I was in the chair, we attempted a definition off the bat. More...

NFC in all phones next year? Dream on....
by Dean Bubley of Disruptive Analysis

There's a quote from an Ericsson representative about NFC and RFID-enabled handsets reported here.

Apparently, "A year from now basically every new phone that's sold will have NFC. It's a two-way, bi-directional RFID communication link that makes this device work as a tag or as a reader." [I wasn't there, so I'm assuming the quote is correct]

If someone from Ericsson would like to take a spreadbet with me about NFC uptake in 2010, I'm a seller. I'd like to think I'm a fair man, so I won't hold them to the letter of "basically every" More...

The Day That Nothing Happened
by Dominic McGonigal of PPL

Today was the last chance for the Czech Presidency to give performers a fair copyright term. Everything was in place. The Commission had drafted the Term of Protection Directive. The Parliament had made some amendments and approved it. The Parliament even took on board the amendments from the Council of the EU. Within the Council, the majority of the 27 ministers from EU states (which form the Council) had shown their support. All that was left was for the Czech Presidency to put copyright term on the COREPER agenda today. More...

Digital Britain: Too Large a Scope
by Simon Torrance of STL partners

Any UK citizen would applaud the ambition of the Digital Britain Report:
“to secure the UK’s position as one of the world’s leading digital knowledge economies”We believe that the breadth of the scope of this ambition is the real problem of the report: too many intertwined companies are affected, especially when the government is pursuing a policy of Industrial Activism, which is longhand for intervention. Only time will tell whether benefits outweigh the costs of this intervention, but our initial impressions are not good. More...