Raju Vegesna
Currently the Evangelist for Zoho. Has been with the company for 10 years. Prior to Zoho, Raju co-founded a company serving the education market.
The opinions expressed on this site are his own and do not represent those of Zoho.
Is Android gaining market share because of carriers?
Last week at Google IO, Google announced some improvements to Android Market. The video of the session ‘Android Market for Developers‘ is now available here. One thing that caught my attention in the video is Android installations by country. Here is the slide. As it shows, there is a direct correlation between device activations and [...]
Control Swing
In 2007, Apple took the control from the carriers and put it in the hands of device makers when it launched the original iPhone. Here is an excerpt from a Wired article. For decades, wireless carriers have treated manufacturers like serfs, using access to their networks as leverage to dictate what phones will get made, [...]
On Windows Phone 7
Last week at the GigaOm’s Mobilize conference, I got a chance to play with a Windows Phone 7 device briefly. I was looking forward to playing with the device as I was optimistic on Microsoft’s new mobile operating system. After using the device briefly, it didn’t feel right. Microsoft went for the cool factor this [...]
Presence for Mobile Phones?
How often do we see mobile phones ringing/vibrating in a meeting? I see this in almost every meeting. We have an option to set our online presence to ‘Busy’ to avoid any IMs, Skype calls etc. But sadly, we don’t have a similar option for our mobile phones. I like working late and more often [...]
What’s the Next Casualty After Google Wave?
When Google announced that it is going to kill Wave, my first reaction was – wait, what will happen to Google Wave in Google Apps? So I looked for a post on Google Enterprise Blog. The post basically echoed what was mentioned in their official blog post . It didn’t clearly say if it’ll discontinue [...]
Impact of Touch on WebApps
For the past 20+ years, we are used to using intermediate devices like Mouse and Keyboard for input. Their replacements are Touch and Voice. While we are not there today for Voice, we certainly are getting there on Touch replacing mouse (atleast in portable devices). Whenever we see such fundamental changes, there is always an [...]
Do we need openness for our toaster?
There has been some interesting discussion about Apple and iPad being closed. In many cases for Apple, I’d buy this argument, but regarding iPad being closed, I have to disagree. As I talked earlier, iPad is a gadget for non-techies. People who have been scared about the complexity of computers will be able to use [...]
The iPad is the Computer for Rest of the World
Most of the industry has been underwhelmed with the iPad launch. I for one, actually think this is a great device. It may not be for us, techies, but for rest of the world, it is going to be a great device. This is a device I can hand it my grandfather and he won’t [...]
Google’s Disruption Leads to Commoditization
Bill Gurly wrote up a great piece on Google’s disruption in the navigation market. It is a great read to understand the impact Google’s new navigation ‘feature’ will have in that market. That’s right; Google will pay you to use their mobile OS. I like to call this the “less than free” business model. This [...]
Mobile OS: Is Google Pulling a Microsoft Against Apple?
In the Desktop Operating System space, we all know what happened between Apple and Microsoft. While Apple tied their OS to their hardware, MS succeeded taking more of an open approach letting any device manufacturers bundle their OS. This resulted in an entire eco-system giving them greater distribution and eventually a monopoly. Though many believe [...]
Connected Car
I have long been waiting for a connected car – one that is connected to internet all the time (3G or EVDO or Wifi). Ideally it should include a Solid State Drive (Hard drives fail frequently due to motion) to store content (music, primarily). The idea is, my car should connect to my home WiFi [...]
Android is Like Linux: Excites Geeks, Not End Users
There has been some good discussion around Android recently and Daring Fireball blog has some very good points on the opportunity Android has in the market. I 100% agree with him that the iPhone needs competition. Unfortunately, the competition doesn’t look very good so far. While John Gruber makes a case where competition could exist [...]
Microsoft Office on iPhone?
Remember when Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer laughed at the iPhone mentioning it doesn’t appeal to business customers? If you missed it, here it is…Well, it looks like Microsoft is developing an Office suite for the iPhone which obviously means it has changed its stance on ‘iPhone appealing to business customers’ – just like SAP few weeks [...]
SaaS Application Architecture is a Good Fit for Enterprises
When applications are designed (On-Premise or On-Demand), they are typically architected based on the number of users they are intended to serve as the architecture vastly varies based on the type/size of deployment. The architecture of a Cloud application like Gmail for example is majorly different from the architecture of an on-premise application like Exchange. [...]
Will Cloud Apps kill the VPN Market?
The VPN market had its glory days. Remember the days where you need to login to VPN before you connect to your internal systems/apps within your organization? I am not sure about you, but those days are long gone atleast for me as I started using more and more apps on the cloud. This makes [...]
