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 On May 22, Ethernet – Robert Metcalfe’s ingenious invention –celebrated its 40th anniversary. As the global tech community celebrates this milestone for one of the world’s most transformative technologies, we take a look at its evolution from a printer-to-printer communication system a...May. 23, 2013 12:31 PM EDT Reads: 319 |
 Looking to hang with the cool kids, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, swearing “not to screw it up,” is buying Tumblr for a cool $1.1 billion, a big chunk of her $5.4 billion pocketbook since it’s “substantially all” in cash.
The New York-based acquisition will remain a separate business with...May. 21, 2013 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 802 |
 Amazon has bought Samsung’s mobile display operation Liquavista NV in Holland on undisclosed terms. Bloomberg previously said Samsung was looking for less than $100 million for the place. It’s believed to be for Amazon’s e-readers but it is also reportedly developing a couple of smartp...May. 20, 2013 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 423 |
 Yesterday at SAPPHIRE 2013 the SAP mobility team announced a new SAP Afaria in the Cloud edition that will be available for approximately $1.12 per month per device (read press release). Some vendors charge by user, rather than by device, but SAP says they want to know exactly how man...May. 17, 2013 03:51 PM EDT Reads: 221 |
 There’s an inherent sense of almost forced innovation that appears to pervade the information technology industry. As we constantly push forward into perpetual cycles of reinvention, continual enhancement and augmentation after augmentation, one almost has to stop and ask what’s wrong ...May. 17, 2013 12:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,185 |
 The last few years in IT have seen us move from a proactive to a reactive environment. For decades, the boundaries in communication technology were pushed by government, military and business needs. As technology improved and costs dropped, innovations were gradually adapted for the co...May. 16, 2013 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,080 |
 The key drivers behind the Cloud Revolution are faster delivery of IT solutions, access to ‘unlimited’ on-demand capacity, and lower operating costs. Still, many struggle with the variables behind the Cloud, including data management, portability, and public, private, hybrid, and virtu...May. 16, 2013 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,567 |
 Microsoft wants to buy Nook Media LLC, the Barnes & Noble’s digital and college books joint venture, for a billion dollars according to TechCrunch, which says it’s got internal documents to prove it.
With Windows 8 in mind Microsoft bought 16.8% of the operation last year for $300 mi...May. 13, 2013 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,493 |
 This morning Cognizant, the company where I work as an analyst, reported their earnings. In the earnings call Cognizant CEO Francisco D'Souza stated, "This year we expect to deliver about $500 million in SMAC (social, mobile, analytics, cloud) related services." That is a significant...May. 10, 2013 02:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,590 |
 Every young software business is different. Yet regardless of niche, competitive pressures or economic conditions, all startups face the same key issues. It’s possible to survive those hectic, early years as a bootstrapped business – even thrive during them. All you need is…
1) An ide...May. 9, 2013 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,578 |
 This week I read an interesting article titled, Mobile Phone Data Redraws Bus Routes in Africa. Seems the MNO (mobile network operator) Orange released 2.5 billion phone records (anonymised data) from 5 million phones for an exercise on how Big Data could be used to improve lives.
Th...May. 9, 2013 10:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,139 |
 I teach a lot of SMAC strategies workshops (social, mobile, analytics and cloud) around the world. Conducting these involves a lot of travel. I have been pondering these last few days just how much my travel experience has changed over the past decade.
I could continue. I research ...May. 9, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 692 |
 A year after opening a formal investigation into how Motorola Mobility enforces its patents, the antitrust arm of the European Commission has sent the company an SO or statement of objections saying it’s misusing the standard-essential patents (SEPs) it’s got on mobile phones.
The mis...May. 7, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,125 |
 Apple shipped 19.5 million iPads (classic and mini), up 65.3%, and it now has roughly 40% of the tablet business. Its numbers have been trending down and are expected to continue to decline.
Samsung was second up nearly 18% after shipping 8.8 million units.
Asus was third with 2.7 ...May. 6, 2013 06:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,659 |
 Apple has started borrowing money to underwrite the three-year $60 billion share buy-back program it promised stockholders last week.
The company is also going to pay out $55 billion in dividends through 2015.
It’s issued floating-rate notes maturing in 2016 and 2018 and fixed-rate ...May. 2, 2013 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,094 |
 A long time ago, before gray hairs appeared on my head, I was an IT manager. My title was B2B E-Commerce Manager for a computer manufacturer. I remember sitting in long meetings discussing how successful Dell Computer was with their just in time manufacturing and just in time supply ...May. 1, 2013 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,243 |
 Verizon Wireless is going into the cloud storage business for tablets and smartphones up against the likes of Dropbox.
It ultimately expects to let customers transfer information between operating systems.
The Verizon Cloud will roll out the service soon, starting with Android and ...May. 1, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,630 |
 I have Google's Blogger app on my iPhone and iPad mini. I can write articles for publication from anywhere with an Internet connection, but are they read, are they shared? That is our subject for today.
One of the biggest growth areas involving mobility is mobile marketing. If your...Apr. 29, 2013 01:22 PM EDT Reads: 933 |
 Every business wants to protect its confidential financial information. But for an organization like ours, financial information is our entire business. Over the course of a year, Broadridge handles millions of trades worth trillions of dollars, so it’s easy to see how security must be...Apr. 29, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,452 |
 There suddenly seems to be a run on API management start-ups. First Intel acquired Mashery. Then CA bought Level 7. Now six-year-old 3scale of Barcelona and San Francisco has gotten $4.2 million in funding from Javelin Venture Partners and Costanoa Venture Capital.
The round is meant...Apr. 29, 2013 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,058 |
 A panel of the six commissioners at the International Trace Commission Monday tossed out a Motorola claim that Apple’s iPhone 4 was in patent violation, foiling its attempt to get the widget banned in America.
Motorola and its parent Google can appeal to the Federal Circuit and Googl...Apr. 29, 2013 07:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,554 |
 Don’t expect Google Glass to be out anytime soon.
Google’s globe-trotting chairman Eric Schmidt told the BBC that “It’s fair to say that thousands of these will be in use by developers over the next months, and then based on their feedback we will make some product changes, and it’s ...Apr. 29, 2013 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,382 |
 A US federal court has cut the legs out from under Google’s ambitions to
harry companies like Microsoft and Apple that need its standards-essential
patents (SEPs) to function while it makes a packet off those self-same
patents bought for $12.5 billion – its stated purpose in buying ...Apr. 29, 2013 04:15 AM EDT Reads: 911 |
 OSGi is the latest component model to join the bandwagon of component models, which provides a platform for component oriented development and assembly. OSGi framework is a standards based platform whose specifications are provided by the OSGi Alliance (www.osgi.org, formerly OSGi was ...Apr. 26, 2013 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,181 |
 In the most anticipated quarterly report in recent memory, Apple – which a few brief months ago was the largest company in the world before its record stock price collapsed – indicated Tuesday that its growth has tempered and its margins have been crimped.
It made $9.5 billion, or $1...Apr. 26, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,096 |
 In mobile app development, we're seeing a major philosophical split between the "nativists" (running directly on the device hardware) and the "virtualizers" (with their scripting and interpretive layers and containers).
Both enterprises and independent software vendors (ISVs) know the...Apr. 25, 2013 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,653 |
 Microsoft announced Tuesday that ZTE, one of the world’s biggest handset producers, had come to terms and signed a worldwide patent license agreement that will see Microsoft paid a royalty on all of the phones, tablets, computers and other devices the Chinese company makes that run Goo...Apr. 25, 2013 10:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,489 |
 I would invite anyone in an IT department buried in demand for mobile apps to first take a look at Google Enterprise, before trying to develop everything yourself. There are many mobile capabilities already available in the Google world which are free to individuals and available free...Apr. 23, 2013 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,306 |
 There’s no denying the opportunities that Open APIs and Business to Developer initiatives offer today, but for many businesses APIs are going to be a huge driver of business partner programs. Successful B2B API programs introduce a completely new set of requirements that go far beyond ...Apr. 22, 2013 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,202 |
 Asian suppliers told the Wall Street Journal that Microsoft has been sampling components including a 1.5-inch display for a potential touch-enabled smartwatch that would compete with a purported watch from Apple and others coming from Google and Samsung as well as the Martian Passport ...Apr. 22, 2013 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,630 |
 A new American workforce is emerging. A recent report from Accenture says the number of U.S. workers who are independent (such as freelancers, contractors or temps) is up 6 percent from 1989. Work as we know it is changing. Because of constant connectivity, companies across the globe n...Apr. 20, 2013 12:45 PM EDT Reads: 2,230 |
 Staying current with the latest and greatest in hardware and technology is challenging for organizations of any size, but especially so for small-to-medium sized businesses (SMBs) who are often extra challenged with limited resources and personnel. It’s no surprise then that today’s SM...Apr. 20, 2013 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,955 |
 In my research on companies that are transforming themselves by adopting an integrated SMAC (social, mobile, analytics and cloud) strategy, I came across a recent blog article by the CIO of Woolworths Limited, Dan Beecham. I will share some excerpts from it here.
Woolworths is an Aus...Apr. 18, 2013 01:44 PM EDT Reads: 1,648 |
 Foxconn’s parent company Hon Hai, the world’s largest contract manufacturer, is going to pay Microsoft royalties on all the Android and Chrome widgets it makes including smartphones, tablets and televisions under the broad worldwide patent licensing agreement they’ve just cut.
Hon Ha...Apr. 18, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,235 |
 For readers not yet familiar with the acronym SMAC, it represents social, mobile, analytics and cloud. In this short video, Google demonstrates, through Google Enterprise, how companies can implement a SMAC strategy to improve the following:
Improve meetings and collaboration
Work b...Apr. 17, 2013 02:05 PM EDT Reads: 1,073 |
 U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement started to provide its employees up to 17,000 iPhones for work and personal use as the agency moves to replace its Blackberry devices.
ICE selected the iPhone after evaluating other types of smartphones such as Android devices and analyzing Bla...Apr. 15, 2013 01:05 PM EDT Reads: 906 |
 The Field Mobility News Weekly is an online newsletter made up of the most interesting news and articles related to field mobility that I run across each week. I am specifically targeting information that reflects market data and trends.
India’s government is rolling out RFID-based ...Apr. 15, 2013 11:31 AM EDT Reads: 846 |
 Welcome to Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly, an online newsletter that consists of the most interesting news and articles related to enterprise mobility in Asia. Asia is predicted to be the fastest area of growth for enterprise mobility between now and 2016.
India's IT service pr...Apr. 15, 2013 11:25 AM EDT Reads: 607 |
 Having decided that mobile is the place to be, Rackspace is offering developers free purpose-built mobile cloud stacks based on OpenStack to help them “design, build, test, deploy and scale mobile apps” on its cloud.
The stacks are supposed to reduce complexity and save deployment ti...Apr. 15, 2013 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,975 |
 There is little argument at this point that the mass adoption of mobile technology and bring-your-own-device (BYOD) strategies by enterprises is a true business technology revolution. At the core, the catalysts driving this revolution are the vast array of mobile devices leveraging soa...Apr. 15, 2013 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,694 |
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