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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social
Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Mark Hyland, VP of Sales and Marketing, QuickPlay Media (Part 3)
Mark Hyland: So, that’s how we got going. Essentially, the first mobile video, as you remember, was very rough. There were a Nokia device and Sony Ericsson device that could play downloadable video clips. So, QuickPlay did some deals with content providers to get some music videos, to get news clips and so on, and
Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Mark Hyland, VP of Sales and Marketing, QuickPlay Media (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: That’s how things happen. Makr Hyland: So, Shift was a great entrepreneurial experience. We had to raise money. We had to explain ourselves, explain our vision. We were all in our early 20s at the time, so I think we had the naiveté of youth on our side. Starting a magazine at that
Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Mark Hyland, VP of Sales and Marketing, QuickPlay Media (Part 1)
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.
Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Markos Symeonides, EVP, Axios Systems (Part 5)
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
Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Markos Symeonides, EVP, Axios Systems (Part 4)
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.,
Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Markos Symeonides, EVP, Axios Systems (Part 3)
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.
Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Markos Symeonides, EVP, Axios Systems (Part 2)
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
Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Markos Symeonides, EVP, Axios Systems (Part 1)
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
