Experiencing the Cloud

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Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) are fast changing from a computer-centered era of the past 60+ years into a new one based on an ICT cloud where the resources shared by everybody are behind the so called cloud covering smaller or bigger data centers, different hosting centers, or even servers in your closet connected to the Internet. All fueled by 3.5G/3.9G, SoC & reflectivity. See the links on the right sidebar:

ALERTS:
- Tech investment banking expertise to strengthen the unique value focus of growing the HTC brand and to achieve high growth again [April 18, 2012]
- The future of consumer legacy of immersive technologies [April 13, 2012]
- The Where Platform from Nokia: a company move to taking data as a raw material to build products [April 7, 2012]
- The 41 MP Nokia 808 PureView meeting the vanishing world challenge [April 4, 2012]
- Sharp-er Hon Hai / Foxconn [March 31, 2012]
- Nokia trying the first Lumia month in China with China Telecom exclusive [March 28, 2012]
- Huawei Enterprise after its 1st year and the 2012 strategy [March 26, 2012]
- Standards-based adaptive layouts in Windows 8 (and IE10) [March 24, 2012]
- James Whittaker’s Quality Software Crusade from Academia to Microsoft, then Google and now back to Microsoft [March 14, 2012]
- MWC 2012: Fuzhou Rockchip Electronics [March 13, 2012]
- Nokia under transition (as reported by the company) [March 11, 2012]
- The future of Windows Embedded: from standalone devices to intelligent systems [March 9, 2012]
- MWC 2012: the 4G/LTE lightRadio network [March 8, 2012]
- MWC 2012 day 1 news [Feb 27, 2012]: Samsung and Nokia [Feb 28, 2012]
- Continued Toshiba-SanDisk dominance for flash memories [Feb 26, 2012]
- E Ink strategic value proposition: displays on every smart surface [Feb 20, 2012]
- Nokia’s strategy for “the next billion” based on software and web optimization with super low-cost 2.5/2.75G SoCs [Feb 14, 2012]
- China-based second-tier and white-boxed handset makers targeting the emerging markets [Feb 13, 2012]
- AMD 2012-13: a new Windows 8 strategy expanded with ultra low-power APUs for the tablets and fanless clients [Feb 3, 2012]
- Marvell’s SMILE Plug for the “Classroom 3.0” initiative [Feb 1, 2012]
-Marvell SoCs to win both Microsoft and Nokia for Windows Phone and Windows 8 platforms (after the Kinect success) [Feb 1, 2012]
- Nokia CEO: salespeople to deliver true WP7 retail experience supported by improved product management, marketing and accelerated global coverage with a full breadth of products [Jan 29, 2012]
- Qualcomm added a superior to its mirasol, but also MEMS display technology for its upcoming US$1B fab [Jan 26, 2012]
- China TD-SCDMA and W-CDMA 3G subscribers by the end of 2011: China Mobile lost its original growth momentum [Jan 21, 2012]
- Intel 2011: a year of records, milestones and breakthroughs [Jan 21, 2012]
- AH-IPS technology from LG Display and True HD IPS of LG Mobile LTE superphones: Nitro HD (AT&T) and Spectrum (Verizon)  [Jan 19, 2012]
- Pixel Qi finding ruggedized devices are the 2012 opportunity  [Jan 16, 2012]
- Google adding a style guide (design guidelines) to Android (4 years late) [Jan 13, 2012]
- Nokia’s Lumia strategy is capitalizing on platform enhancement opportunities with location-based services, better photographic experience etc. [Jan 12, 2012]
- VIZIO’s two pronged strategy: Android based V.I.A. Plus device ecosystem + Windows based premium PC entertainment [Jan 11, 2012]
- Smarterphone end-to-end software solution for “the next billion” Nokia users [Jan 9, 2012]
- Marvell® ARMADA® PXA168 based XO laptops and tablets from OLPC with $185 and target $100 list prices respectively [Jan 8, 2012]
- The new, high-volume market in China is ready to define the 2012 smartphone war [Jan 6, 2012]
- Google’s revitalization of its Android-based TV effort via Marvell SoC and reference design [Jan 5, 2012]
- The precursor of 2012 smartphone war: Nokia Lumia vs. Samsung Omnia W in India [Jan 3, 2012]
- Shrinking capital investment in the worldwide LCD industry [Jan 2, 2012]
- The ZTE way of capitalizing on the LTE opportunity [Dec 20, 2011]
- The leading ClearBlack display technology from Nokia [Dec 18, 2011]
- Best practice industrial and user experience design – Nokia and Microsoft [Dec 17, 2011]
- New Mobile and Communications Group (MCG) at Intel [Dec 16, 2011]
- Imagination Technologies becoming the multimedia IP leader for SoC vendors [Dec 16, 2011]
- World’s lowest cost, US$40-50 Android smartphones — sub-$100 retail — are enabled by Spreadtrum [Dec 11, 2011]
- Kindle Fire with its $200 price pushing everybody up, down or out of the Android tablet market [Dec 8, 2011]
- One terabit of data in a fingertip-size NAND flash memory package from Intel and Micron joint venture [Dec 7, 2011]
- The future of TV via a new Metro-styled Xbox 360 dashboard plus a plethora of new content partners [Dec 7, 2011]
- The killing power of bloated web communications [Dec 6, 2011]
- Samsung Exynos 5250 [Dec 6, 2011]
- OPhone 2.5 and beyond from Borqs for China Mobile [Dec 5, 2011]
- Blurring lines between smartphones and feature phones: the Muve Music Phone case from Cricket Communications [Dec 2, 2011]
- China becoming the lead market for mobile Internet in 2012/13 [Dec 1, 2011]
- 1st W3C conference for Web developers and designers [Nov 26, 2011]
- Web apps for the open web from Mozilla [Nov 25, 2011]
- Windows 8 gaining smartphone like “connected standby” capability [Nov 23, 2011]
- Designing smarter phones–Marko Ahtisaari (Nokia) and Albert Shum (Microsoft) [Nov 23, 2011]
- Qualcomm mirasol display technology delivered [Nov 22, 2011]
- Application Craft: a multiplatform rapid development system and SaaS for HTML5 et al [Nov 16, 2011]
- NVIDIA Tegra 3 and ASUS Eee Pad Transformer Prime [Nov 10, 2011]
- Samsung push for bada in 2012 and other Linux based devices [Nov 5, 2011]
- ST-Ericsson NovaThor SoCs for future Windows Phones from Nokia [Nov 3, 2011]
- Lightning fast (ICT-backed) and dominating finances clashing with the age-old slowness of democratic consensus building [Nov 2, 2011]
- The early 2010 Windows 8 alternative: the Courier tablet [Nov 2, 2011]
- Nokia Lumia (Windows Phone 7) value proposition [Oct 26, 2011]
- TI’s OMAP4460 in Samsung GALAXY Nexus with Android 4.0 [Oct 21, 2011]
- TD-SCDMA: US$3B into the network (by the end of 2012) and 6 million phones procured (just in October) [Oct 18, 2011]
- Microsoft and jQuery Mobile, PhoneGap [Oct 13, 2011]
- The accelerated Adobe strategy for HTML5 et al [Oct 12, 2011]
- Qualcomm is very close to getting the HTML5 web apps performance and feature set to rival that of native OS apps [Oct 11, 2011]
- Plane to Line Switching (PLS) screen technology (Samsung) [Oct 2, 2011]
- The technical excellence of the new Symbian range from Nokia [Oct 1, 2011]
- $199 Kindle Fire: Android 2.3 with specific UI layer and cloud services [Sept 29, 2011]
- Pixel Qi’s second investment round concluded by the 3M investment [Sept 19, 2011]
- Windows 8 Metro style Apps + initial dev reactions [Sept 15, 2011]
- Windows 8: the first 12 hours headlines and reports [Sept 14, 2011]
- Social media based global product management [Sept 13, 2011]
- Pre-Commerce and the Consumerization of IT [Sept 10, 201]
- The high-end Windows Phone 7.5 (Mango) marketing [Sept 4, 2011]
- More on supply chain battles for … [Aug 31, 2011]
- First real chances for Marvell on the tablet and smartphone fronts [Aug 21, 2011]
- Innovative entertainment class [Android] tablet from VIZIO plus a unified UX for all cloud based CE devices, from TVs to smartphones [Aug 21, 2011]
- PCs and cloud clients are not parts of Hewlett-Packard’s strategy anymore [Aug 19, 2011]
- New high-tech and direct investment relationships between the US and China? [Aug 19, 2011]
- Huawei’s IDEOS U8150 smartphone for US$86 in Kenya: 350,000 units sold in 8 months [Aug 17, 2011]
- Supply chain battles for much improved levels of price/performance competitiveness [Aug 16, 2011]
- Nokia feature phones (S40) are losing market more than Nokia smartphones (S60, Symbian) [Aug 14, 2011]
- First Nokia WP7 in Q4 via an ODM route from Compal [Aug 13, 2011]
- Nokia World 2011 — Oct 26-27, London [Aug 11, 2011]
- Nokia’s North America centric approach for Windows Phone 7 [Aug 11, 2011]
- Next-gen Snapdragon S4 class SoCs — exploiting TSMC’s 28nm process first — coming in December [Aug 9, 2011]
- Qualcomm’s new partnership with Nokia [Aug 8, 2011]
- Microsoft Tellme cloud service for WP7 ‘Mango’ and other systems [Aug 6, 2011]
- Qualcomm Snapdragon SoCs with a new way of easy identification [Aug 4, 2011]
- Nokia Windows Phone to debut on August 17 at the huge gamescom 2011 event [Aug 3, 2011]
- The Memjet disruption to the printing industry [July 30, 2011]
- Netbook prices starting $50 less at $200 via Intel MeeGo strategy [July 29, 2011]
- Tackling the Android tide [July 16, 2011]
- Good TD-LTE potential for target commercialisation by China Mobile in 2012 [July 13, 2011]
- Marvell’s single chip TD-SCDMA solutions beaten (again) by two-chip solutions of Chinese vendors [July 11, 2011]
- Nokia N9 UX [?Swipe?] on MeeGo 1.2 Harmattan [June 24, 2011]
- A too early assesment of the emerging ‘Windows 8’ dev & UX functionality [June 24, 2011]
- First-ever Israeli National Pavilion Set up at 2011 Computex Taipei [June 20, 2011]
- SOEs and state coexistence in China [June 19, 2011]
- China Mobile repositioning for TD-LTE with full content and application aggregation services, 3G [HSPA level] is to create momentum for that [June 18, 2011]
- Acer repositioning for the post Wintel era starting with AMD Fusion APUs [June 17, 2011]
- Metro styled new entertainment experience on Xbox 360 [June 6, 2011]
- ICT Top-100 in Mainland China and the #1 Huawei [June 4, 2011]
- Google as an evil enterprise: the perception changes as vital APIs are shut down [June 1, 2011]
- SEO – Rand Fishkin – SEOmoz – Future – Past [May 31, 2011]
- Microsoft’s huge underperformance on mainland China market [May 30, 2011]
- High expectations on Marvell’s opportunities with China Mobile [May 28, 2011]
- Microsoft’s next step in SoC level slot management [May 27, 2011]
- Barnes & Noble NOOK offensive [May 25, 2011]
- Microsoft on five key technology areas and Windows 8 [May 24, 2011]
- E Ink and Epson achieve world-leading ePaper resolution [May 23, 2011]
- Chromebook / box with Citrix Receiver going against Microsoft [May 12, 2011]
- TSMC led foundries and their SoC customers against Intel [May 10, 2011]
- Intel’s SoC strategy strengthened by 22nm Tri-Gate technology [May 10, 2011]
- Amazon Tablet PC with E Ink Holdings’ Hydis FFS screen [May 3, 2011]
- E Ink Holdings EPD prospects are good [April 30, 2011]
- Intel: accelerated Atom SoC roadmap down to 22nm in 2 years and a “new netbook experience” for tablet/mobile PC market [April 17, 2011]
- Gartner: media tablets are the new segment next to mobile PCs and desktops, as well as web- and app-capable mobile phones [April 16, 2011]
- Larry Page to boost Google even more as becoming CEO again [April 2, 2011]
- Acer’s decision of restructuring: a clear sign of accepting the inevitable disintegration of the old PC (Wintel) ecosystem and the need for joining one of the new ecosystems under formation [April 1, 2011]
- Acer & Asus: Compensating lower PC sales by tablet PC push [March 29, 2011]
- ASUS Eee Slate based Windows marketing from Microsoft [March 21, 2011]
- ASUS, China Mobile and Marvell join hands in the OPhone ecosystem effort for “Blue Ocean” dominance [March 8, 2011]
- Be aware of ZTE et al. and white-box (Shanzhai) vendors: Wake up call now for Nokia, soon for Microsoft, Intel, RIM and even Apple! [Feb 21, 2011]
- Pixel Qi’s first big name device manufacturing partner is the extremely ambitious ZTE [Feb 15, 2011]
- Kinoma is now the marvellous software owned by Marvell  [Feb 15, 2011]
- Marvell to capitalize on BRIC market with the Moby tablet [Feb 3, 2011

More information regarding the fundamental changes expected in the current year is available in the third and first posts of 2011:
- Next-generation cloud client experiences based on the Metro design language [Jan 24]
- Changing purchasing attitudes for consumer computing are leading to a new ICT paradigm [Jan 5]

This is directly leading to my second post of CES 2011 presence with Microsoft moving to SoC & screen level slot management that is not understood by analysts/observers at all [Jan 7]. That move will lead to dramatic changes in the industry as will be made clear through additional details by the time of Microsoft’s MIX 2011 of April 12-14 event as the latest. Large post with detailed content, including:
Part I. The SoC support announcement
Part II. The Steve Ballmer CES 2011 opening keynote and all other Microsoft related
- Footage from the Microsoft keynote with some relevant keynote transcript excerpts included
- New Windows Laptops, Tablets and Slates Showcased
- The Next Generation of Microsoft Surface – LCDs That Can ‘See’
- New Xbox Avatar Capabilities on Display
- Copy-and-Paste Coming to Windows Phone 7
- Additional details for the three PCs demonstrated in the keynote
- Other new PCs
- Hardware acceleration for cloud clients (browsers etc.): AMD Fusion APUs, NVIDIA GeForce 500M [Jan 14]
- Xbox and Surface 2 additional information
- Windows Embedded Standard 7: the first wave of OEM partners exploiting the included Windows Media Center [Jan 14]

December News: — Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) and 3.0 (Honeycomb), see more information (updated on Jan 10, 2010) – How Microsoft is going to solve the problem of assuring HTML5 et al platform stability for web developers? See more information. – Pixel Qi and CPT alliance for sunlight readability: screens with only 0.5 watts in mono and 1.25 watts in color? See more information. – Hanvon and E-Ink Holdings are betting on next-generation e-readers to build a strong mass market in China during the next year or two, also well supplementing a Microsoft and Intel based premium strategy by Hanvon, see more information – With Treesaver you have now a platform by which you could publish to the web in print-like high quality accessible from any device/browser, and without any specific apps, see more information – Microsoft’s upcoming CES 2011 announcement of a Windows slate overlay software for touch-first HTML5 applications could have true competitive impact on the overall tablet (iPad etc.) market, see more information. – Intel is restricted to play a catch up game in the tablet space and just to try the waters in the smartphone market in 2011, but after that everything will be much more promising because of its manufacturing technology lead and earlier evidence to become a dominant player via its architecture, see more information. – Nokia to challenge iPhone, Android and Windows Phone 7 with a brand new User Experience (UX) design pattern for MeeGo, see more information – Microsoft has a new overall platform strategy based on evolving HTML 5, and an enhanced one for its own Windows client devices, see more information.

And here are the pre-December 2010 news in a grouping also representing popularity:

Most read: - Marvell ARMADA: beating other ARMs — beaten by Chinese chipmakers — full tablet prototype costing $75 to manufacture - Phone/tablet capable Wintel: Oak Trail Atom SoC — arriving in December — Oak Trail pricing — Microsoft slate promise still late - 3.9G and 4G: LTE & WiMAX — TD-LTE in 2011 — IMT-Advanced

- Microsoft and HTML 5:  new platform? — leading compliance? — split strategy - Other infonuggets: Android — OPhone — HTC brand — 2 Chinas: cloud computing and joint ICT market — business SaaS: SAP Business by Design and Microsoft Office 365 — 3 screens and a cloud - E-reading: SaaS wars — FUD - Mobile speed: 3.75G — in reality

Consequently our clients are fast changing as well. You no longer need a fully equipped PC or notebook to serve your personal computing needs. As small device as the contemporary smartphone is sufficient to feel yourself empowered by the ICT cloud. We even had media tablets last year, like the pioneering Apple iPad, which are serving your cloud content consumption needs. And then all those classic devices, the PC, the notebook, the netbook etc., that you were accustomed to in the recent pre-cloud era, have just started to be transformed into something else to fit cloud authoring and consumption as well.

The authoring includes not only content in the classic sense, meant directly for human eyes, but significantly more capable software of a new kind that is operating in the cloud, aptly called Software as a Service (SaaS).

In fact this very website is solely relying on such an SaaS. It is reached via a URL http://lazure2.wordpress.com/ which means that it is supported by one of the leading content creation and consumption SaaS’ called WordPress.com from Automattic Inc. The subdomain name of lazure2 is just for making this website distinquishable among all other WordPress.com websites which are more than 15 millions.

WordPress.com has roots in the first decade of the 21st century of internet hosting. For this reason it is possible to not only track the trend of fundamental paradigm change towards cloud computing but also experience its simplest form by writing content on “Experiencing the Cloud” website.

We certainly may expect an exponential increase of more and more sophisticated SaaS’ written from the start for the cloud. We are tracking this trend as well.