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 [...]
Finally Something Good on the Privacy Front–from Google Latitude
Recently I’ve been experimenting with Google Latitude: I wanted to see if I could use it to replace the “family locator” function that most mobile carriers offer at a premium price. This would require that your child or elderly parent or whoever’s whereabouts you care about carries the phone in their pocket with the display [...]
SaaS Startups Should Check Out CouchDB First
Ever since Oracle acquired MySQL, there is a lingering question in the minds of SaaS companies that had relied heavily on MySQL and the analysts who follow the space closely. It is about the impact of this acquisition on the SaaS providers. While thinking about the impact of any adverse move by Oracle on SaaS [...]
Alcatel-Lucent Is Damn Serious About Their Plans To Make Wireless Carriers Relevant
Ever since Apple unleashed iPhone and changed the people’s perspective on their mobile phones, wireless providers were grappling with a future where their networks are fast becoming dump pipes. Even though iPhone itself is a walled garden of some kind, it (along with other Android based devices) helped tear down the walls built up by [...]
Some Observations On Google’s Mobile Strategy
Today, Techmeme is full of news coming from Google’s Mobile press event. The two interesting announcement from Google are A way to instantly send links, maps, etc. to Android phones from desktops. It is a clever interplay between three Google properties, Google’s Chrome browser, Google’s Android phone and Google Cloud (Do I hear monopoly from [...]
Tapping The Cloud To Tackle Oil Spill
As the workforce becomes more distributed, organizations are faced with daunting tasks with respect to workforce management, security, etc.. Location services and SaaS come very handy for organizational managers to manage their mobile workforce in a centralized way. As more and more organizations of all sizes and shapes start using smartphones, organizations can tap into [...]
New Augmented Corporate Reality BI Prototype
Based on a blog post and proof-of-concept application earlier this year, I have been championing a SAP BusinessObjects Innovation Center project to build an “augmented corporate reality” prototype. The idea stemmed from one of the key themes of my BI future directions presentations: that for the first time in centuries, new technology comes from the [...]
What is next for computing when people have gone mobile?
Image via Wikipedia If you own an Iphone, an Ipad, an Android phone, or any of the other highly connected mobile devices, you get a very good idea of where computing is going. The problem is that we are still stuck on the same paradigm when it comes to services and work. Chained to a [...]
AT&T’s Tiered Plans: Killing Of Mobile Innovation Or Opportunity For Others
Image by Getty Images via @daylife AT&T shocked the iPad users this week with an announcement that it will eliminate the unlimited data plan they offer now. In fact, this unlimited, no contract plan was one of the reasons many people, including me, bought iPad 3G in the first place. Even though many will not [...]
Living In The Clouds – iPad Edition
It has been sometime since I wrote the last post in the Living In The Cloud Series. With iPad in my hand, I thought it is time to revisit this series and talk briefly about how iPad fits in a life on the clouds. When iPad was announced, I wrote a post about how iPad [...]
RoamBI – Beautiful Mobile BI for the iPad
RoamBI for iPhone, which I reviewed last year, has long been the best-looking mobile BI application available in the market. Now the folks at RoamBI have been one of the very first vendors worldwide to come out with an updated application for the iPad, and they provided me with one in order to test their [...]
Alcatel-Lucent Empowers Developers With A Sandbox On The Cloud
Mobile platform is getting hotter and hotter for developers. After iPhone turned the user behavior of mobile devices upside down, a gold rush began for developers. The huge success of iPhone platform has made mobile very attractive for everyone from users to developers to, even, enterprises. The success of Android platform and the excitement created [...]
Telecoms unite against Apple
Apple faces the combined ire of 24 of the worlds telecom companies who want to start their own application store so that people that download applications to their phones and make more money off the applications that they are currently trying to support. Apple should buy T-Mobile or some other telecom, much like Google is [...]
Google Buzz Is New Black – Solving A Problem That Google Wave Could Not
Today Google announced Google Buzz. Watch the video: The chart below shows the spectacular adoption failure of Google Wave as a standalone product. This was predicted by a lot of people including myself. As Anil Dash puts it Google Wave does not help solve a “weekend-sized problem”. Besides the obvious complex technical challenges there are three distinct [...]
iPad And SaaS Junkies
Image via Wikipedia When Apple announced the release of iPad earlier this week, all hell broke lose in the tech blogosphere including here at Cloud Ave. On a personal level, I am put off by the lack of camera and Apple’s arrogance to wield control on people’s buying habits. However, the idea of iPad excites [...]
