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Why Zynga was Right to Buy OMGPop and Words With Friends, And What it Means for SaaS

Why Zynga was Right to Buy OMGPop and Words With Friends, And What it Means for SaaS

By Jason M. Lemkin on October 10, 2012

Zynga just keeps getting hammered.  The latest was on preannouncing a big miss for Q3, and an almost complete write-off of its $183m acquisition of OMGPop, the guys behind briefly ultrapopular Draw Something.  Next up may well be a complete write-down of  the $200m+ for Words with Friends. The OMGPop acquisition was called “catastrophic“, for example, […]

Posted in Entrepreneurship | Tagged appstore, Omgpop, saas, SiliconBeat, software as a service, zynga

PaaS Is The Future Of Cloud Services: Engine Yard Opens Up Platform Services

PaaS Is The Future Of Cloud Services: Engine Yard Opens Up Platform Services

By Krishnan Subramanian on September 21, 2011

Engine Yard (previous CloudAve coverage), one of the earliest PaaS players, today announced the launch of Engine Yard Platform Services. This is a partner program with more than 40 cloud vendors offering their services for Engine Yard platform. This is more like an appstore for Engine Yard Platform customers so that they can easily use […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Platforms | Tagged Addons, appstore, engine yard, engineyard, insights, paas, paasfuture, platform, platform as a service, platform services, Ruby, xeround

Beating Apples system Amazon introduces Cloud Reader

Beating Apples system Amazon introduces Cloud Reader

By Dan Morrill on August 10, 2011

Is this one of the first chinks in Apples armor for eBooks? I have tried repeatedly to use the eBook development kit for Apple, and honestly from a user friendly and programmatic viewpoint it is probably the worst chunk of software pushed by Apple. If the eBook fits all specifications and everyone from Amazon to […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts | Tagged amazon, AmazonKindle, Apple, appstore, cloud computing, cloud reader, E-book, ipad, iphone, kindle, Netflix | 1 Response

Four reasons enterprise software should skip native mobile apps

Four reasons enterprise software should skip native mobile apps

By Hutch Carpenter on June 6, 2011

The desire to “consumerize” mobile apps for their own sake is stoking today’s outsized enthusiasm with device-specific enterprise mobile apps at a time when HTML5 is right there staring us all in the face. Tony Byrne, Enterprise 2.0 B.S. List: Term No. 1 Consumerization The runaway success of the iPhone app store has demonstrated that […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts, Mobile | Tagged AdMob, android, Apple, appstore, enterprise 2.0, geek, Handhelds, html5, iOS, iphone, mobile apps, mobile html, Mobile operating system | 2 Responses

Do we need openness for our toaster?

Do we need openness for our toaster?

By Guest Authors on February 13, 2010

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 […]

Posted in Design | Tagged android, appstore, Design, ipad, iphone, openness, usability | 1 Response

Siri brings their Virtual Personal Assistant’s smarts to the iPhone

Siri brings their Virtual Personal Assistant’s smarts to the iPhone

By Paul Miller on February 5, 2010

Siri provoked a flurry of interest last summer, and presumably not just because CTO Tom Gruber took part in one of my podcasts. With their genesis inside a big DARPA-funded Artificial Intelligence project, their talk of emergent Virtual Personal Assistants and their slick iPhone-powered demonstrations, the company ticked more than enough of the right boxes […]

Posted in Infrastructure | Tagged @hisiri, Adam Cheyer, android, Apple, appstore, artificial intelligence, Blackberry, CALO, Handhelds, iphone, open data, Semantic Technology, semantic web, Siri, smartphone, SRI, Tom Gruber, virtual personal assistant, vpa, web 3.0, ZDNet | 2 Responses

Is the iPad a big iPod or is it the new Newton?

Is the iPad a big iPod or is it the new Newton?

By David Terrar on February 1, 2010

The first thing I’ve got to say is the title of this post was supplied in a tweet from Alan Patrick (@freecloud), but it perfectly encapsulates the controversy going on in the geek world around the new Apple tablet device announced on Wednesday.  Is it going to be as successful and “game changing” like the […]

Posted in Design, Product reviews | Tagged Apple, appstore, convergence, darwin, Design, divergence, ebook, epub, ibook, ipad, iphone, iPod, mac, newton, productivity, tablet | 2 Responses

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