Jérôme Bidet, R&D Team Manager, Orange Labs answers a few brief questions following the CONNECTIONS EUROPE Conference. 

What do you feel is the most important development in the connected home space in the past year?

The spreading of connected TVs and personal cloud services.

What the biggest challenge for your company in 2013?

The biggest challenge is to make products and services more simple and easy to use for customers, with a great level of quality.

Any other comment regarding the industry you would like to make?

The number and diversity of devices are increasing. In this context, what will be the most successful strategy: a closed and proprietary model or a strategy based upon re-usability of services across devices and platforms?

90% of the digital information worldwide was created over the last 2 years. How will we deal with such an explosion of data to be stored and retrieved?