
Hybrid mobile apps will conquer the mobile enterprise
[Image by HLundgaard] There is a difference about how we thinks things will evolve, and how they do. I’ve been wondering about Mobile and app stores for a while – they seem contradictionairy. Mobile has taken such a great flight because of lowered cost and increased availability of Internet for mobile, the old-fashioned telephone has turned […]

IBM’s Worklight Acquisition: Few Thoughts
Two days back IBM announced their plans to acquire Worklight, the Israel based mobile development platform, to beef up their enterprise mobile strategy. IBM realizes that in this era of BYOD/Consumerization of IT, they need to had a strong mobile strategy supporting various platforms. In fact, at the recent Lotusphere 2012 conference, IBM showcased their […]

Will Mobile Kill The Web? (Hell No)
Square honcho and legendary angel investor Keith Rabois said some provocative things about mobile versus web at the VentureBeat Mobile Summit:Keith Rabois, a startup veteran who’s now president and chief operating officer at Square, didn’t mince w…

Mobilize 2010: Revisiting Web Apps – Native Apps Debate
Yesterday, at Mobilize 2010, a conference organized by GigaOm on mobile technologies, there was a panel discussion on “Apps Vs Web: The Fight For The Future”, moderated by Dr. Phil Hendricks. They had panelists from both sides of the debate and it was one of the interesting panels based on my interests. Basically, the panelists […]

Innovating Around Restrictions – PlayOn Story
When talking about the capping of data for iPad by AT&T, I argued that such restrictions presents opportunity for others in the market to innovate When AT&T unexpectedly announced its plan to kill the unlimited plan with a spin on the savings for most of their data plan users, many in the tech blogosphere were […]

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 […]

RIPing The Traditional Web: Not So Fast
Recently, Rob Mills wrote a post on Think Vitamin proclaiming death to traditional web. He was pointing out the widespread use of mobile devices and the next wave of iPad like devices and argued that this will make traditional web secondary to mobile sites and apps. The web is dead. OK, it isn’t but it […]

Sonoa Helps Developers Speed Up Mobile Applications
In March 2009, I profiled a cloud based company called Sonoa Systems who were helping SaaS providers with analytics, security and compliance. I was very impressed with what they are doing and kept a tab on their progress. Sonoa Systems is uniquely positioning itself to help enterprises and SaaS providers with analytics, performance, security, compliance and regulations etc.. […]

Tapping The Clouds For Mobile Nirvana
One of the many reasons for the success of SaaS in the desktop world is that it frees users from the restrictions put on by the OS vendors. Whether it is Apple’s OSX or Microsoft’s Windows OS, there are some inherent restrictions imposed on both the users and developers due to the proprietary nature of these operating systems. The […]