Hmm, apparently Samsung has pushed one too many of Apple’s buttons.
According to DigiTimes Apple has bought up half of Elpida Memory’s total chip production of mobile DRAM rather than give the iPad and iPhone order to Samsung, its largest supplier, accused of ripping off its technolo... Hmm, apparently Samsung has pushed one too many of Apple’s buttons.
According to DigiTimes Apple has bought up half of Elpida Memory’s total chip production of mobile DRAM rather than give the iPad and iPhone order to Samsung, its largest supplier, accused of ripping off its technolo...May. 16, 2012 03:48 PM EDT Reads: 729 |
A California Superior Court last Friday threw out Proview Electronics’ three-month-old infringement suit against Apple over the iPad trademark. The dismissal only came to light the other day.
Proview claimed Apple duped it when Apple bought the iPad trademarks from it in 2009 for $55,...May. 11, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 640 |
If you are unfamiliar with the term “Consumerization of IT” or CoIT then you may think that it means “IT has become a consumer product”.
But that is not interpretation which is generally accepted.
Traditionally, adoption of Information Technology used to start with defense & governme...May. 2, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,692 |
Do we need programming languages? You may think that the answer is no. But, if you go by the recent trend you may need to change your mind. Why is Google working two (GO, DART) new programming languages? Why has IBM (X10), Cray (Chapel) and Red Hat (Ceylon) working on creating a new pr...May. 2, 2012 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,941 Replies: 1 |
You're just a few clicks away from the first edition of The Innovation Show, from SAP.
This brand new, 30-minute online show on May 3rd 2012 at 1400Hrs London time will update you on the latest technologies and IT innovations that are impacting your business. Innovation is anything bu...May. 1, 2012 12:06 PM EDT Reads: 419 |
Rethink Your Content Marketing by Aiming at Billions of Buyers on the Move For those of us who been around computing since the early days of PCs, the consumer move to mobile devices and away from desktop and even laptop computers is astonishing–and maybe a little terrifying. Smar...Apr. 27, 2012 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,170 |
After the bears lopped $70 billion off of Apple’s value in the last few days, the company went bear hunting Tuesday crushing estimates.
Net profits in the March quarter were up 94% year-over-year to $11.6 billion returning $12.30 a share compared to estimates of $10.04 on revenues of...Apr. 26, 2012 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 857 |
Taking a stance of 'Build it and they will come' has never worked in IT and especially now with the Consumerisation of Mobility and the Prosumers (Professional + Consumer) in your Enterprise, whom are expecting or even demanding the same experience as Mobile Apps on the App Stores/Mark...Apr. 26, 2012 07:40 AM EDT Reads: 1,333 |
Earlier this month it became widely publicized that Apple maintains complete control over the master encryption key to their marquee cloud offering, iCloud. Now, to anyone familiar with security and encryption this should come as no surprise. In order for nearly all consumer cloud serv...Apr. 19, 2012 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,274 |
Apple and Samsung, the two leaders in mobile devices now suing each other in nine countries over Android, have agreed to sit down and try to settle a couple of US patent suits ahead of a trial due to start in late July.
It’s not their idea. It’s the idea of federal court judge Lucy K...Apr. 19, 2012 07:45 AM EDT Reads: 934 |
Mobile game development has a world of its own. You will come across different set of programming languages which you would not have encountered elsewhere – Lua, Live Code, Unreal Script, Boo etc. Some of these tools are a derivative or an extension of what is available on other gaming...Apr. 16, 2012 11:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,758 |
SDN technologies provide network owners and operators better control over their networks, allowing them to optimize network behavior to best serve their customers' needs. While networking technologies continue to evolve, the ONF believes that more rapid innovation is needed.
"Applica...Apr. 16, 2012 05:30 AM EDT Reads: 853 |
One of the sessions I attended at FOSE 2012 was titled: “What the Research Shows: The Future of Mobile.” It featured two researchers, Dr. David Metcalf of the University of Central Florida, and Aaron Smith, of the Pew Internet and American Life Project. These gentlemen focu...Apr. 13, 2012 07:45 AM EDT Reads: 695 |
The Justice Department is fixing to sue Apple, Macmillan and maybe
Penguin for antitrust maybe as soon as Wednesday by all reports.
The iPad-centered charges are supposed to be collusion and fixing the price
of that newfangled invention, e-books.
The DOJ essentially destroyed M...Apr. 12, 2012 03:00 AM EDT Reads: 687 |
Here is #5. Five points the Mobile Information Worker expects from their Mobile Enterprise Data. 1. Always available and on-demand access to information (off-line and on-line). 2. New ways to interact and display data. 3. Reduce data re-entry error, by synchronising data. 4. Capture ne...Apr. 10, 2012 05:00 PM EDT Reads: 836 |
Here is #4. Five points for Mobile Apps in Shaping the new Business Enterprise. 1. Cost reduction compared to existing systems. 2. Streamlining business processes. 3. Competitive advantage with up to date data at hand. 4. Increase Employee satisfaction and effectiveness. 5. Rapid respo...Apr. 8, 2012 01:14 PM EDT Reads: 915 |
Here is #3. Five points that makes an Engaging Enterprise Mobile App. 1. Extend existing systems by innovating in new ways. Just transferring a PC based or paper based solution is NOT enough. 2. Display/Consume data in new ways. 3. Keep UX design familiar to the deployment platform rat...Apr. 8, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 836 |
Here is #2. Five points on how Enterprise Mobile Developers can improve the Relationships with their End Users. 1. Live several days in the life of your user observing work locations and patterns. 2. Have end users in on the design panel as well as the usability and testing. 3. Get buy...Apr. 7, 2012 05:00 PM EDT Reads: 865 |
Today I thought I would put together five steps and five points within to producing 5-Star Mobile Apps. Here is #1 Five points when Building the Business Case for Mobile Enterprise Apps. 1. Create a Visionary Plan for more mobile Apps and know how they will aid and shape your enterpris...Apr. 6, 2012 07:45 AM EDT Reads: 984 |
On April 8 Nokia will bring its Windows Phone Lumia 900 to AT&T for only $99.99. It integrates seamlessly with Microsoft Exchange, and the Windows Phone 7 interface is an effortless one. The user experience of this Windows phone is decidedly different from Android and iOS, and if y...Apr. 6, 2012 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,092 |
The European Commission Tuesday formally launched two parallel investigations into the prices Motorola Mobility is demanding for licenses to its standards-essential 2G and 3G wireless patents and Wi-Fi and online compression video patents.
The formal investigations [formal as in “we’...Apr. 4, 2012 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,088 |
Hybrid tools try to resolve the debate of …
“Should you write a mobile web application which will render on multiple platforms without significant change but won’t be able to take advantage on native features?”
Or
“Should you create platform specific native application to fully util...Apr. 4, 2012 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,883 |
Australia’s Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) filed a legal complaint against Apple Wednesday charging it with misleading consumers in promoting its new iPad.
It said Apple suggests the iPad with Wifi+4G can connect to an Australian 4G mobile network with a SIM card when it ...Apr. 2, 2012 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,327 |
Smartphones are trending up, they now account for almost 50 percent of mobile phones in the United States. And, not surprisingly, feature phones are trending down – four out of five new mobile phone purchases are for smartphones. The clear winner is Google, about 48 percent of smartp...Apr. 2, 2012 03:01 AM EDT Reads: 749 |
Apple’s contract manufacturer Foxconn and its Taiwanese avatar the Hon Hai Group are buying 9.9% of struggling Osaka-based electronics conglomerate Sharp.
They’ll get $1.6 billion worth of new Sharp shares. It’s the biggest investment a Taiwan company has ever made in a Japanese comp...Mar. 30, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,502 |
Apple CEO Tim Cook is in China, the company’s second-largest market, meeting with unnamed government officials as well as Vice-Premier Li Keqiang, who may be running the country next year.
The Chinese said they chatted about IP issues and greater cooperation. Seems China wants to enh...Mar. 29, 2012 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 988 |
It's always been an important part of planning an Enterprise Mobile Development… How to get started?... How to take that first step? As a Mobile Evangelist, my experience covers many areas such as presentations, communications and especially technical developer skills, with knowledge o...Mar. 28, 2012 07:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,274 |
Now that Mobility is part of our lives, we are all hooked on our Smartphone or Tablet device and take them everywhere we go, but we need to be aware of something that we almost take for granted… Data Connection & Usage! Especially if we are going abroad and hit the tricky subject of Da...Mar. 24, 2012 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 915 |
Apple has failed to shake coveted information about Google’s development of Android and its $12.5 billion planned acquisition of soon-to-be Google satellite Motorola Mobility out of MMI.
Circuit Court Judge Richard Posner, who will hear Apple’s patent complaints against Motorola this...Mar. 23, 2012 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,380 |
This week I attended a Mobile Monday event sponsored by Barnes & Nobile (B & N) which discussed Tablet Computing and promoted their Nook Developer program. The Chair for the meeting was Marek Pawlowski, Founder and Organiser MEX @marekpawlowski and the Panel consisted of Claudio Romani...Mar. 21, 2012 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,034 |
Akamai Technologies, Inc.), announced on Wednesday that Dolce&Gabbana, the world's leading Italian brand in the fashion and luxury industry, has chosen Akamai's Dynamic Site Accelerator, part of the Company's Aqua Web Solutions, to accelerate all versions of its web site (www.dolcegabb...Mar. 21, 2012 06:30 AM EDT Reads: 706 |
Breaking with tradition – and changing the definition of a growth company in the process – Apple Monday morning said it would start paying a quarterly dividend of $2.65 a share in the September quarter.
At $10.60 a year that would currently be about a 1.8% yield, putting it among the...Mar. 20, 2012 07:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,167 |
For some reason that isn’t clear, Apple and Motorola Mobility took a shot at negotiating a cross-license that might have covered all the Android OEMs late last year.
So says the European Commission’s decision to clear the Google-MMI merger that Bloomberg pointed to Monday.
The 38-p...Mar. 19, 2012 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,186 |
A Dutch court Wednesday told Samsung it couldn’t have an injunction against Apple’s iPhone 4s based on patents it pledged to ETSI and 3G/UMTS standards.
Not when Apple is willing to license them on fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory (FRAND) terms. It especially can’t have an inj...Mar. 19, 2012 07:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,318 |
It may be an unusual angle, but your Enterprise IP Wireless Expert may be your best ally around when it comes to implementing your Mobile Device Security Strategies. The reason why I think this is that all of smartphone and tablet devices support wireless connectivity, and most data p...Mar. 17, 2012 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 953 |
Here's a common scenario and one that will become more common with the ever increasing penetration of Tablet Devices in the Enterprise... Your Senior Exec just got their iPad. They love it. They use it everywhere. Literally everywhere! That’s a scary word for anyone involved in securi...Mar. 15, 2012 10:37 AM EDT Reads: 945 |
As I have already mentioned in many articles, Mobile Apps and Mobile Business Processes are becoming a routine part of daily work life, yet companies still wrestle with mobile security. They are totally correct to worry about how easily mobile devices are lost and stolen. They are also...Mar. 15, 2012 07:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,052 |
Whether you build a Mobile Apps as part of a public product or service, or develop in-house Mobile Apps to support your own business processes, it is useful to keep an eye on what the government regulators are up to regarding all things mobile. There is a lot of debate about what, if a...Mar. 14, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 926 |
At Mobile World Congress last week in Barcelona, I had the great fortune to interview...Raj Nathan, EVP and CMO, Sybase, an SAP company. As Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer of Worldwide Marketing and Business Solutions Operations, Dr. Raj Nathan is responsible for a...Mar. 14, 2012 05:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,156 |
I have talked a lot about the need to Mobilize Existing Business Systems and Processes in an innovative and strategic way and at the heart of this for Mobile App development is the Mobile Enterprise Application Platform or MEAP. This is important because mobile technology is evolving s...Mar. 13, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 955 |






A California Superior Court last Friday threw out Proview Electronics’ three-month-old infringement suit against Apple over the iPad trademark. The dismissal only came to light the other day.
Proview claimed Apple duped it when Apple bought the iPad trademarks from it in 2009 for $55,...
If you are unfamiliar with the term “Consumerization of IT” or CoIT then you may think that it means “IT has become a consumer product”.
But that is not interpretation which is generally accepted.
Traditionally, adoption of Information Technology used to start with defense & governme...
Do we need programming languages? You may think that the answer is no. But, if you go by the recent trend you may need to change your mind. Why is Google working two (GO, DART) new programming languages? Why has IBM (X10), Cray (Chapel) and Red Hat (Ceylon) working on creating a new pr...
You're just a few clicks away from the first edition of The Innovation Show, from SAP.
This brand new, 30-minute online show on May 3rd 2012 at 1400Hrs London time will update you on the latest technologies and IT innovations that are impacting your business. Innovation is anything bu...
Rethink Your Content Marketing by Aiming at Billions of Buyers on the Move For those of us who been around computing since the early days of PCs, the consumer move to mobile devices and away from desktop and even laptop computers is astonishing–and maybe a little terrifying. Smar...
After the bears lopped $70 billion off of Apple’s value in the last few days, the company went bear hunting Tuesday crushing estimates.
Net profits in the March quarter were up 94% year-over-year to $11.6 billion returning $12.30 a share compared to estimates of $10.04 on revenues of...
Taking a stance of 'Build it and they will come' has never worked in IT and especially now with the Consumerisation of Mobility and the Prosumers (Professional + Consumer) in your Enterprise, whom are expecting or even demanding the same experience as Mobile Apps on the App Stores/Mark...
Earlier this month it became widely publicized that Apple maintains complete control over the master encryption key to their marquee cloud offering, iCloud. Now, to anyone familiar with security and encryption this should come as no surprise. In order for nearly all consumer cloud serv...
Apple and Samsung, the two leaders in mobile devices now suing each other in nine countries over Android, have agreed to sit down and try to settle a couple of US patent suits ahead of a trial due to start in late July.
It’s not their idea. It’s the idea of federal court judge Lucy K...
Mobile game development has a world of its own. You will come across different set of programming languages which you would not have encountered elsewhere – Lua, Live Code, Unreal Script, Boo etc. Some of these tools are a derivative or an extension of what is available on other gaming...
SDN technologies provide network owners and operators better control over their networks, allowing them to optimize network behavior to best serve their customers' needs. While networking technologies continue to evolve, the ONF believes that more rapid innovation is needed.
"Applica...
One of the sessions I attended at FOSE 2012 was titled: “What the Research Shows: The Future of Mobile.” It featured two researchers, Dr. David Metcalf of the University of Central Florida, and Aaron Smith, of the Pew Internet and American Life Project. These gentlemen focu...
The Justice Department is fixing to sue Apple, Macmillan and maybe
Penguin for antitrust maybe as soon as Wednesday by all reports.
The iPad-centered charges are supposed to be collusion and fixing the price
of that newfangled invention, e-books.
The DOJ essentially destroyed M...
Here is #5. Five points the Mobile Information Worker expects from their Mobile Enterprise Data. 1. Always available and on-demand access to information (off-line and on-line). 2. New ways to interact and display data. 3. Reduce data re-entry error, by synchronising data. 4. Capture ne...
Here is #4. Five points for Mobile Apps in Shaping the new Business Enterprise. 1. Cost reduction compared to existing systems. 2. Streamlining business processes. 3. Competitive advantage with up to date data at hand. 4. Increase Employee satisfaction and effectiveness. 5. Rapid respo...
Here is #3. Five points that makes an Engaging Enterprise Mobile App. 1. Extend existing systems by innovating in new ways. Just transferring a PC based or paper based solution is NOT enough. 2. Display/Consume data in new ways. 3. Keep UX design familiar to the deployment platform rat...
Here is #2. Five points on how Enterprise Mobile Developers can improve the Relationships with their End Users. 1. Live several days in the life of your user observing work locations and patterns. 2. Have end users in on the design panel as well as the usability and testing. 3. Get buy...
Today I thought I would put together five steps and five points within to producing 5-Star Mobile Apps. Here is #1 Five points when Building the Business Case for Mobile Enterprise Apps. 1. Create a Visionary Plan for more mobile Apps and know how they will aid and shape your enterpris...
On April 8 Nokia will bring its Windows Phone Lumia 900 to AT&T for only $99.99. It integrates seamlessly with Microsoft Exchange, and the Windows Phone 7 interface is an effortless one. The user experience of this Windows phone is decidedly different from Android and iOS, and if y...
The European Commission Tuesday formally launched two parallel investigations into the prices Motorola Mobility is demanding for licenses to its standards-essential 2G and 3G wireless patents and Wi-Fi and online compression video patents.
The formal investigations [formal as in “we’...
Hybrid tools try to resolve the debate of …
“Should you write a mobile web application which will render on multiple platforms without significant change but won’t be able to take advantage on native features?”
Or
“Should you create platform specific native application to fully util...
Australia’s Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) filed a legal complaint against Apple Wednesday charging it with misleading consumers in promoting its new iPad.
It said Apple suggests the iPad with Wifi+4G can connect to an Australian 4G mobile network with a SIM card when it ...
Smartphones are trending up, they now account for almost 50 percent of mobile phones in the United States. And, not surprisingly, feature phones are trending down – four out of five new mobile phone purchases are for smartphones. The clear winner is Google, about 48 percent of smartp...
Apple’s contract manufacturer Foxconn and its Taiwanese avatar the Hon Hai Group are buying 9.9% of struggling Osaka-based electronics conglomerate Sharp.
They’ll get $1.6 billion worth of new Sharp shares. It’s the biggest investment a Taiwan company has ever made in a Japanese comp...
Apple CEO Tim Cook is in China, the company’s second-largest market, meeting with unnamed government officials as well as Vice-Premier Li Keqiang, who may be running the country next year.
The Chinese said they chatted about IP issues and greater cooperation. Seems China wants to enh...
It's always been an important part of planning an Enterprise Mobile Development… How to get started?... How to take that first step? As a Mobile Evangelist, my experience covers many areas such as presentations, communications and especially technical developer skills, with knowledge o...
Now that Mobility is part of our lives, we are all hooked on our Smartphone or Tablet device and take them everywhere we go, but we need to be aware of something that we almost take for granted… Data Connection & Usage! Especially if we are going abroad and hit the tricky subject of Da...
Apple has failed to shake coveted information about Google’s development of Android and its $12.5 billion planned acquisition of soon-to-be Google satellite Motorola Mobility out of MMI.
Circuit Court Judge Richard Posner, who will hear Apple’s patent complaints against Motorola this...
This week I attended a Mobile Monday event sponsored by Barnes & Nobile (B & N) which discussed Tablet Computing and promoted their Nook Developer program. The Chair for the meeting was Marek Pawlowski, Founder and Organiser MEX @marekpawlowski and the Panel consisted of Claudio Romani...
Akamai Technologies, Inc.), announced on Wednesday that Dolce&Gabbana, the world's leading Italian brand in the fashion and luxury industry, has chosen Akamai's Dynamic Site Accelerator, part of the Company's Aqua Web Solutions, to accelerate all versions of its web site (www.dolcegabb...
Breaking with tradition – and changing the definition of a growth company in the process – Apple Monday morning said it would start paying a quarterly dividend of $2.65 a share in the September quarter.
At $10.60 a year that would currently be about a 1.8% yield, putting it among the...
For some reason that isn’t clear, Apple and Motorola Mobility took a shot at negotiating a cross-license that might have covered all the Android OEMs late last year.
So says the European Commission’s decision to clear the Google-MMI merger that Bloomberg pointed to Monday.
The 38-p...
A Dutch court Wednesday told Samsung it couldn’t have an injunction against Apple’s iPhone 4s based on patents it pledged to ETSI and 3G/UMTS standards.
Not when Apple is willing to license them on fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory (FRAND) terms. It especially can’t have an inj...
It may be an unusual angle, but your Enterprise IP Wireless Expert may be your best ally around when it comes to implementing your Mobile Device Security Strategies. The reason why I think this is that all of smartphone and tablet devices support wireless connectivity, and most data p...
Here's a common scenario and one that will become more common with the ever increasing penetration of Tablet Devices in the Enterprise... Your Senior Exec just got their iPad. They love it. They use it everywhere. Literally everywhere! That’s a scary word for anyone involved in securi...
As I have already mentioned in many articles, Mobile Apps and Mobile Business Processes are becoming a routine part of daily work life, yet companies still wrestle with mobile security. They are totally correct to worry about how easily mobile devices are lost and stolen. They are also...
Whether you build a Mobile Apps as part of a public product or service, or develop in-house Mobile Apps to support your own business processes, it is useful to keep an eye on what the government regulators are up to regarding all things mobile. There is a lot of debate about what, if a...
At Mobile World Congress last week in Barcelona, I had the great fortune to interview...Raj Nathan, EVP and CMO, Sybase, an SAP company. As Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer of Worldwide Marketing and Business Solutions Operations, Dr. Raj Nathan is responsible for a...
I have talked a lot about the need to Mobilize Existing Business Systems and Processes in an innovative and strategic way and at the heart of this for Mobile App development is the Mobile Enterprise Application Platform or MEAP. This is important because mobile technology is evolving s...
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