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Monthly Archives: September 2011
$199 Kindle Fire: Android 2.3 with specific UI layer and cloud services
Follow-up: Kindle Fire with its $200 price pushing everybody up, down or out of the Android tablet market [Dec 8, 2011] Suggested preliminary reading (although the 7″ Kindle Fire has an IPS screen, the 10″ coming in 2012 may have the … Continue reading
Posted in Cloud client SW platforms, Cloud Computing strategy, SaaS, tablets
Tagged Amazon, Amazon Appstore for Android, Amazon EC2, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon Prime, Amazon S3, Amazon Silk, Amazon Simple Storage Service, Amazon Web Services, Android, AWS, cloud client, Computers and Internet, Gingerbread, IPS, Kindle Fire, OMAP, Opera, Opera Mini, Texas Instruments, TI OMAP, Whispersync
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Pixel Qi’s second investment round concluded by the 3M investment
Preceding information (essential reads): – Pixel Qi’s first big name device manufacturing partner is the extremely ambitious ZTE [Feb 15, 2011, latest update: June 3, 2011] – Pixel Qi and CPT alliance for sunlight readability [Dec 22, 2010, latest update: June … Continue reading
Windows 8 Metro style Apps + initial dev reactions
With this style of apps there is a clear platform diagram: but there is no similar kind of diagram for the structure of the applications themselves, although that structure is absolutely different from the ones we are familiar with in … Continue reading
Posted in Cloud client SW platforms, Cloud SW engineering
Tagged BUILD, cloud client, Computers and Internet, HTML5, Intel, JavaScript, Metro, Metro design language, Metro style, Metro UI, Microsoft, slates, Tablets, UX, Windows 8, WinRT
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Windows 8: the first 12 hours headlines and reports
After A too early assesment of the emerging ‘Windows 8’ dev & UX functionality [June 24, 2011] we came to an as full disclosure as possible by the keynote of the BUILD conference. Here are the very first (12 hours) … Continue reading
Posted in Cloud client SW platforms, Cloud Computing strategy, Cloud SW engineering, tablets
Tagged 3.9G, BUILD, cloud client, Computers and Internet, HTML5, Intel, JavaScript, Kal-El, LTE, Metro, Metro design language, Microsoft, Near Field Communication, NFC, NVIDIA, NXP Semiconductors, Plane Line Switching, PLS, Qualcomm, SaaS, Samsung, slates, Snapdragon, SoC, Super PLS, Tablets, Tegra, Ultrabook, UX, Windows 8, Windows Live, Windows Store, WinRT, Xbox
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Pre-Commerce and the Consumerization of IT
Follow up (very much suggested reading): – Social media based global product management [Sept 13, 2011] IDC 2011 Video: Closing the Consumerization Gap[July 12, 2011] In this recording, Frank Gens, Senior Vice President and Chief Analyst of IDC, discusses the results … Continue reading
Posted in Pre-Commerce
Tagged 4A, 4L, 4P, Blog Council, Bob Pearson, Computers and Internet, Consumerization of IT, Dell, IdeaStorm, Karen Quintos, Michael Dell, Paulo Simas, Pre-Commerce, social media, Social Media Listening Command Center, The Engagement Span, WCG, WeissComm, WeissComm Group
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The high-end Windows Phone 7.5 (Mango) marketing
HTC Unveils HTC TITAN And HTC Radar Smartphones [HTC press release, Sept 1, 2011] HTC Corporation, a global leader in mobile innovation and design, today hosted a series of consumer meet-ups in London, Paris, Madrid and Berlin to unveil its … Continue reading
Posted in Cloud client SW platforms, smartphones
Tagged Android, Apple, Blackberry, cloud client, Gartner, HSPA+, HTC, IDC, Mango, Microsoft, Qualcomm, RIM, SoC, Symbian, Windows Phone 7, Windows Phone 7.5
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