BT's strategy seems to be to wait until all of its would-be competitors have given up, at which point it will have the market for sexy services such as broadband Internet access to itself.
Two of them look like modern, sexy services, the other looks like it was designed in the 70s or 80s — probably because it was.
And unfortunately SpinVox's "sexiest" service is not its integration with social networks, but it's voice to SMS service, which remains an utterly indispensible, though paid-for, add-on to your mobile.
All over the city (but mostly in the East End) places with names like Les Courtisanes, Chez Lidia, and Les Princess Super Sexy offer service with two smiles (horizontal and vertical) as nude waitresses serve up piping-hot coffee and bacon 'n' egg specials.
While these days, most sexy new services are some variety of social network where people share things, Wave is about "people getting together to get work done," he says.
Following from our first China event in Beijing in 2011, TechCrunch Shanghai will bring these people together to talk not just about some of the bigger trends in China but in the wider world of tech, such as the rise of wearable devices, the new vogue for "sexy" enterprise services, and new online inroads to solve persistent problems in the health and education sectors.
What made it so appealing was that it delivered less-sexy backend services to a platform everyone was talking about but nobody (still) really understands.
(Photo Courtesy of Erik McGregor © - Marni Halasa founder of Revolution Is Sexy, a consulting service for activists and political groups on how to stage media-worthy protest).
The Economy: Manufacturing Is Sexy Retail and food service (pdf) sales for June increased slightly, and consumer prices rose 1.8 percent over last year.
