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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Mark Hyland, VP of Sales and Marketing, QuickPlay Media (Part 1)

Posted on Monday, Aug 6th

People have grown so accustomed to online media, particularly newspapers and magazines, that they hardly give them a second thought. Pioneers like Mark Hyland and QuickPlay Media co-founders explored the world of online media before computers and the Internet were as commonplace as radio and television, which have also moved online. Sramana Mitra: Hi, Mark.

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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Markos Symeonides, EVP, Axios Systems (Part 5)

Posted on Saturday, Aug 4th

Sramana: So, it’s the usual adoption cycle. I think we’re still at that early adopter phase of these technologies. Markos: Yes, definitely. People get concerned. They say, “Wait a minute. We don’t want the business being disturbed by all these things.” So, they don’t have to be disturbed, but it’s a case of you need

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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Markos Symeonides, EVP, Axios Systems (Part 4)

Posted on Friday, Aug 3rd

Sramana: OK. Fair enough. Crowd sourced customer support, technical support, this is something that we are seeing elsewhere as well. You know, in the program that I run, One Million by One Million, which is a virtual incubator, we have an Italian company called Crowd Engineering that is selling, both in Europe and the U.S.,

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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Markos Symeonides, EVP, Axios Systems (Part 3)

Posted on Thursday, Aug 2nd

Sramana Mitra: Let me synthesize, and then we’ll look at specific points that you’ve made. I’ve got an IT portal as a window into IT. I’ve got crowd sourced support, peer-to-peer support on the support side. I’ve got collaboration sessions to break down silos within IT, including storing and saving for reference. I’ve got mobility.

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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Markos Symeonides, EVP, Axios Systems (Part 2)

Posted on Wednesday, Aug 1st

Sramana Mitra: Is there much of a tradition of software entrepreneurship in Edinburgh? Markos Symeonides: There is some. You’re probably aware that Edinburgh University has a five-star rating, along with the famous Cambridge, MIT and others. There are a lot of skills that come out of Edinburgh, but really, there are not very many global

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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Markos Symeonides, EVP, Axios Systems (Part 1)

Posted on Tuesday, Jul 31st

Business professionals rely heavily on their companies’ IT departments, and the larger the company, the larger the demand. Fortunately, there are companies like Axios Systems that have developed ways to make IT service management for medium to large enterprises easier and more efficient. Founded in 1988 by Tasos Symeonides, Axios remains a privately owned company

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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Diarmuid Mallon, Head of Product Marketing for Sybase, an SAP Company, on Mobile Banking (Part 5)

Posted on Friday, Jul 20th

Sramana Mitra: And most of it goes into the garbage. Diarmuid Mallon: At best. Maybe they just get something from the headquarters of the store. They have no insight. Those vouchers sell products but gain no customer insight. So, we’ve been working with some consumer product companies and have found interesting ways to use mobile

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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Diarmuid Mallon, Head of Product Marketing for Sybase, an SAP Company, on Mobile Banking (Part 4)

Posted on Thursday, Jul 19th

Sramana Mitra: It sounds like the operators and the banks have a synergistic situation in most of these regions. Each of them is trying to reach the same customers. In fact, for the cellular operators, if they say that by buying a cellular phone you can also get into the cellular banking system, that’s another

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