Kiip.me to Mobile Game Developers: There will be Ice Cream
Brian Wong discusses his company and the future of mobile advertising Fourteen minutes into the movie, there’s a great scene that serves as the perfect prologue for the events to come. Daniel Plainview has launched into a sales pitch to convince the town to accept his offer to drill into their land. He exclaims [...]
Square responds to VeriFone
As Techcrunch said this morning, Welcome to the Jungle, mobile payments is huge, and only going to get bigger in the longer run. For those who are unaware of what happened yesterday between Square and VeriFone, you can catch up on it here. The good ne…
Lessening the Pain of Data Roaming With Onavo
I am in the Belgian city of Brussels at the moment, which means that my mobile phone is ‘roaming;’ off my UK network and being charged a scary amount of money to access data. Travelling to Europe is less scary than going elsewhere in the world, as I’m ‘only’ charged about £3 per Mb here. [...]
Why I Invested in Gogii (textPlus) – My First Ever Later Stage Deal
This is a post I’ve been dying to write for 18 months. I invested in LA-based Gogii, one of the fastest growing, most exciting mobile social networking companies you’ve never heard of and maker of a product called textPlus. I know this because you’re not a young teenager. And if you are – what on [...]
Hugh Hefner, Sherlock Holmes & Indiana Jones: Making the Case for Mobile Intelligent Content
The navigation system on her phone has turned her life around. Judy, a 50 year old woman feels like a new person. She can now go where ever she wants because the navigation software on her phone is intelligent enough to recognize where she is and where she wants to go. But for her it’s [...]
ON that Personal Computing Nirvana Again
This will be a fairly short post – because all I do is refer to this piece I wrote recently: Motorola Takes Us a Step Closer to Personal Computing Nirvana–and it’s Not Even a Computer Why bring it up again? Because Walt Mossberg just validated the concept: Today’s best smartphones are really hand-held computers. They [...]
Shrinking Balls
In my last post, I wrote about the sentiment analysis of the Super Bowl and how brands are impacted by the real-time stream. That stream stimulates a Mean Girls phenomenon that causes people to be more passionate and start to bully as they become more popular. I know some analysts…
Couchbase – Consolidation Begins In Big Data Space
One of the common comment from those watching the Big Data space is that there are too many projects that makes it too difficult to chose the right set of tools for the user needs. Well, the consolidation process has started with the merger of Membase (see previous CloudAve coverage), the company supporting open source [...]
What Honeycomb and Android Tablets Mean for Businesses
Google is set to announce their first tablet-oriented Android operating system, codenamed Honeycomb. At Box, we’ve been waiting for this moment since we started seeing significant traction with our apps for both the iPad and Android phones, with nearly 400,000 downloads to date. With the introduction of Honeycomb, we’ll begin working immediately on a tablet-centric version of our Box Android app.
How did we get to this point?
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, [...]
Deciphering Amazon’s Android App Store Strategy
Last week, Amazon unwrapped a marketplace for Android Applications pitching it as a credible alternative to Google’s own Android Marketplace. This move has generated both excitement and concerns from pundits. There are some who wonder about this move by Amazon and there are others who worry about how the fragmentation of marketplace will affect the [...]
Motorola Takes Us a Step Closer to Personal Computing Nirvana–and it’s Not Even a Computer
It took five years, but the personal computing nirvana vision I first heard from Zoho CEO Sridhar Vembu is becoming reality. The concept that I discussed in The Cell-Phone Aware PC May Be a PC-less PC, and other posts is simple. Instead of a plethora of situational devices with redundant computing capacity, carry around just [...]
ChromeOS is a Very Big Deal
(Guest post by Charlie Wood, founder, Spanning Cloud Apps) Google’s ChromeOS is a very big deal. Well, not yet, but it will be. However, some very clever people disagree so I thought it might be useful to go through my rationale for believing what I do. Let me first make a disclaimer: I’m a big [...]
A Comprehensive Comparison Guide to Mobile Advertising Networks (Infographic)
Something we’ve expected for some time now, online advertising spending has just surpassed newspaper advertising spending. But don’t expect online advertising to maintain its lead for long. By all accounts mobile will soon surpass online advertising spend due to the sheer numbers of App/internet enabled mobile phones that are appearing worldwide. While the matrix is [...]
iPad In The Enterprises: ServiceMax Announces Field-Service iPad App
I have been covering the iPad in the enterprise meme here at CloudAve and many others are regularly talking about how iPad is changing the business landscape. Clearly, the use of iPad is not a fad. From sales teams to IT admins, enterprises of all sizes are finding iPad to be very convenient, even increasing [...]
