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Recently, I was introduced to AMC’s interesting and utterly entertaining series Mad Men. For those of you unfamiliar with the series, it’s set in the early 1960s in a world that is rapidly changing. The program’s anti-hero, the amoral Don Draper, is the brains behind a Madison Avenue ad agency filled with relics of the Eisenhower era.

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Get a group of iPhone users together and it’s only a matter of time before they start to play “check out this app I found.” My wife is scrolling through her immunization record app with her best friend while her husband shows me his thoroughly exercised beer tasting app. I’m carrying a Blackberry Storm 2, which I find lacking in both apps and Internet experience, so my mind wanders to how they bill for this stuff. Apps from places like Apple’s App Store, Blackberry’s App World, the Android Market, and Nokia’s Ovi store, don’t end up on the wireless bill. Though I could guess why, I figured I’d ask an expert. That’s one of the many perks of being a BSS columnist. Monica Ricci, director of cross portfolio marketing for Intec, is one such person.

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As cloud computing and other IT services become more centralized, managed services, video, and other new business models are providing more revenue and more potential for service providers.

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It’s right around this time each year that I’m always thinking the same thing: Where did the summer go? We’re steaming right through bathing suit season and into the latter portion of the year, which means it will soon be time for all things autumnal: Pumpkin pie, raking leaves, and fall tradeshows.

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Charles Darwin claimed that intelligence was a key part of the evolutionary journey. The more we learn to use and expand our intelligence the better positioned we are to be in the group that survives. This theory is especially significant in today’s intensely competitive Communications Service Provider (CSP) market.

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Recently, attacks on our government and corporate infrastructure have been occurring with more regularity, compromising corporate, personal, and classified information. No longer is the task of cybersecurity relegated to IT offices and CIOs in the private sector, nor to a select number of government agencies. Instead, a call to action has been put forth to all entities—especially the government—to make cybersecurity a top priority. It is now recognized as one of the most important national security challenges of our time.

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“’Don’t put all your eggs in one basket” is all wrong. I tell you ‘put all your eggs in one basket, and then watch that basket.’”

Who are we to argue with Andrew Carnegie? He made this model work. He focused on one thing—steel—and pushed it until he had his hands on a huge chunk of the world’s first billion dollar corporation.