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Importance Of API: The Apigee Example

Importance Of API: The Apigee Example

By Krishnan Subramanian on January 12, 2011

Image via CrunchBase Apigee (see previous CloudAve coverage), formerly known as Sonoa Systems, today announced that there are 16 Billion API calls flowing through their technology every month. This is a clear indication of massive growth of APIs in this increasingly cloudy world. Stephen O’ Grady of Redmonk also highlights this large scale proliferation of […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged api, api proliferation, Apigee, briefs, cloud computing, mobile, paas, saas

Motorola Takes Us a Step Closer to Personal Computing Nirvana–and it’s Not Even a Computer

Motorola Takes Us a Step Closer to Personal Computing Nirvana–and it’s Not Even a Computer

By Zoli Erdos on January 8, 2011

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 […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Mobile | Tagged android, google, mobile, mobility, motorola, shell computer, situational hardware, smartphone, sridhar vembu, superphone, web applications, web apps, zoho | 2 Responses

Finally Something Good on the Privacy Front–from Google Latitude

Finally Something Good on the Privacy Front–from Google Latitude

By Zoli Erdos on November 4, 2010

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 […]

Posted in Mobile | Tagged android, google, google latitude, gps, Latitude, location, mobile, privacy | 1 Response

SaaS Startups Should Check Out CouchDB First

SaaS Startups Should Check Out CouchDB First

By Krishnan Subramanian on October 26, 2010

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 […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Open Source | Tagged cloud computing, couchdb, database, mobile, mysql, nosql, open source, postgresql, rdbms, saas, smartphones, tablets | 12 Responses

Alcatel-Lucent Is Damn Serious About Their Plans To Make Wireless Carriers Relevant

Alcatel-Lucent Is Damn Serious About Their Plans To Make Wireless Carriers Relevant

By Krishnan Subramanian on September 2, 2010

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 […]

Posted in Mobile | Tagged alcatel-lucent, analysis, android, dumb pipes, iphone, mobile, smartphones, wireless

Some Observations On Google's Mobile Strategy

Some Observations On Google’s Mobile Strategy

By Krishnan Subramanian on August 12, 2010

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 […]

Posted in Mobile | Tagged analysis, cloud computing, google, mobile

Tapping The Cloud To Tackle Oil Spill

Tapping The Cloud To Tackle Oil Spill

By Krishnan Subramanian on August 9, 2010

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 […]

Posted in Mobile, Strategy | Tagged emergency response, location, mobile, oil spill, saas

New Augmented Corporate Reality BI Prototype

New Augmented Corporate Reality BI Prototype

By Guest Authors on July 26, 2010

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 […]

Posted in Enterprise, Mobile | Tagged Accelerated, All, Analytics, Augmented Corporate Reality, Augmented Explorer, Augmented Reality, BI, BI 2.0, Business Intelligence, BusinessObjects, camera, Dashboards, Explorer, Featured, innovation, ipad, iphone, iPod touch, Location Intelligence, Mapping, Maps, mobile, Prototype, sap | 2 Responses

What is next for computing when people have gone mobile?

What is next for computing when people have gone mobile?

By Dan Morrill on June 22, 2010

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 […]

Posted in Mobile | Tagged android, applications, cloud computing, Enterprise, htc incredible, mobile, people, ui, user interface, verizon

AT&T’s Tiered Plans: Killing Of Mobile Innovation Or Opportunity For Others

AT&T’s Tiered Plans: Killing Of Mobile Innovation Or Opportunity For Others

By Krishnan Subramanian on June 4, 2010

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 […]

Posted in Analysis, Mobile | Tagged ATT, data plans, ipad, mobile, Mobile web, telecom | 3 Responses

Living In The Clouds – iPad Edition

By Krishnan Subramanian on May 16, 2010

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 […]

Posted in General, Mobile | Tagged digital office, ipad, livingintheclouds, mobile, saas, virtual lifestyle

RoamBI – Beautiful Mobile BI for the iPad

RoamBI – Beautiful Mobile BI for the iPad

By Guest Authors on April 16, 2010

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 […]

Posted in Enterprise, Mobile | Tagged All, Analytics, BI, BI 2.0, BusinessIntelligence, BusinessObjects, Featured, ipad, iphone, mobile, RoamBI, sap, Xcelsius | 3 Responses

Alcatel-Lucent Empowers Developers With A Sandbox On The Cloud

Alcatel-Lucent Empowers Developers With A Sandbox On The Cloud

By Krishnan Subramanian on February 16, 2010

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 […]

Posted in Mobile | Tagged alcatel-lucent, analysis, api, cloud computing, developers, mobile

Telecoms unite against Apple

By Dan Morrill on February 15, 2010

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 […]

Posted in Design, Mobile | Tagged Apple, applications, ATT, companies, consumers, Misc Technology, mobile, t-mobile, telecom, verizon

Google Buzz Is New Black - Solving A Problem That Google Wave Could Not

Google Buzz Is New Black – Solving A Problem That Google Wave Could Not

By Chirag Mehta on February 9, 2010

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 […]

Posted in Mobile, Product reviews | Tagged collaboration, facebook, foursquare, gmail, google, google wave, gowalla, Latitude, location-awareness, mobile, social media, Strategy, twitter, user experience

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