Telecom industry is one of the fastest growing industries in the market that looks for continuous innovation and a storm of developments. Operators need to keep a careful eye on these new developments in order to stay ahead of the critical battle to survive in ever shrinking markets.

Turning a few pages back in the history of Telecommunications, in the 1980’s, telecom services were deployed on digital switches. In the 1990’s, the rise of Intelligent Network platforms supported the use of general purpose computers in the core network. With market saturation and voice revenue dwindling, the need for converged services coupled with the need for vendor abstraction, open standard programming models, high availability and scalability characteristics, gave rise to Service Delivery Platforms (SDPs). Hence, in the past decade emerged, next generation networks with Service Delivery Platforms at the edge of the network leveraging standard Information

The success of a mobile application is based upon innovation and relevance to its intended audience. Furthermore the uniqueness of the application, its functionalities and time-to-market add on to the foundations which contribute to its success. In the mobile applications industry, innovation can be derived from an average high school kid to the likes of Mobiquest, all of which contribute to this rapidly growing industry. Every mobile application developer dreams of building the next cutting edge application and monetising it.

Cloud computing can simply be referred to as a metaphor for the Internet.
 

Actually Cloud computing is the convergence of three major trends, which are:

• Virtualization- which means the applications are separated from the infrastructure
• Utility computing- where is it available as a shared priced service
• Software as a Service- applications are available on the web on a subscription basis