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- Qualcomm moving to Applications DSP (ADSP)
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Category Archives: SaaS
Simpler, more focused and human friendly social media–that’s the future?
It’s Official: Teens Are Bored With Facebook [Business Insider, March 3, 2013] Teenagers are a good measure of what’s “cool.” Observing which apps they use and how they interact with technology can help the rest of us spot budding trends. … Continue reading
Posted in SaaS, social media
Tagged e-commerce, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Snapchat, window-shopping platform
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Nokia HERE Maps for everything, for FireFox OS in a strategic partnership with Mozilla
A highly recommended prerequisite reading: The Where Platform from Nokia: a company move to taking data as a raw material to build products [April 7, 2012] So, while Microsoft was struggling today with Steven Sinofsky, ex Microsoft: The victim of … Continue reading
Posted in SaaS, Cloud client SW platforms, Cloud SW engineering, Geopolitics, smartphones, Cloud Computing strategy, tablets, HTML5 et al, consumer devices, consumer computing
Tagged 360° LIDAR, 3D capture, 3D sight, 3D street level imagery, 3D visualization, accurate and fresh maps, Android, digital maps, earthmine, earthmine acquisition, Firefox OS, HERE Android API, HERE brand, HERE Maps, HERE Maps API for Android, HERE Maps for Firefox OS, HERE Maps for iOS, HERE SDK for Android, High Resolution Multi-View Cameras, HTML5, innovation, iOS, LiveSight, LiveSight-enabled experience, location and mapping service, map making, Maps on Windows Phone 8, mobile Web, modern map making, Mozilla, NAVTEQ True, Nokia City Lens, Nokia HERE, Nokia location and mapping service, Nokia Location Platform, Nokia Maps for Windows Phone 8, Nokia Transport for Windows Phone 8, Panoramic Cameras, Position Sensors, strategic partnership, the future of digital maps, The Where Platform, Where platform
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BUILD 2012: Notes on Day 1 and 2 Keynotes
While the first day keynote fo BUILD 2012 event from Microsoft was far from developers’ hearts the second one was much closer. In the end of that it was disclosed that: This BUILD is distinctly different: direct your imagination to … Continue reading
Posted in Cloud client SW platforms, Cloud Computing strategy, Cloud SW engineering, consumer computing, SaaS, smartphones, tablets
Tagged .NET Framework for Windows Phone 8, ARM code, BUILD 2012, Channel 9, cloud scale for enterprise apps, cloud-scale, cloud-scale apps, cloud-scale services, Compiler in the Cloud, complementary Sketch application, data platform, data platform in the cloud, Dave Campbell, Devices & Services, experience demos, Hadoop, Halo 4 on Windows Azure, HDinsight, Hive, Jazon Zander, Josh Twist, keynote, managed application binaries, Microsoft, monetization, portable class libraries, reimagining software, Satya Nadella, Scott Guthrie, Scott Hanselman, Steve Ballmer, Steve Guggenheimer, user-specific recommendation engine, Visual Studio 2012, Windows 8 generation, Windows Phone 7.x, Windows Phone 8, Windows Phone 8 SDK, Windows Phone Store
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James Whittaker’s Quality Software Crusade from Academia to Microsoft, then Google and now back to Microsoft
Updates: Why I joined Microsoft [published: March 21, 2012; written: March 13, 2012] - James Whittaker @docjamesw 7:06 AM – 20 Mar 12 via web · Details A web futurist is someone who hates the web as it is now and envisions a better future for it. … Continue reading
Posted in Cloud client SW platforms, Cloud Computing strategy, Cloud SW engineering, SaaS
Tagged Chrome, cloud, developers, dogfooding, Exploratory Software Testing, Facebook, functional testing, Gmail, Google, How Google Tests Software, integration testing, James Whittaker, Larry Page, Manual testing, Microsoft, Orkut, Security Development Lifecycle, software quality, software testing, testers, testing, Trustworthy Computing, Visual Studio Team System, Visual Studio Team System Test Edition, web
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Blurring lines between smartphones and feature phones: the Muve Music Phone case from Cricket Communications
Related information: Continued Toshiba-SanDisk dominance for flash memories [Feb 26, 2012] slotMusic and slotRadio has been, like you said, some of that we did in the content area, we don’t continue these products anymore. … However, we did take these … Continue reading
Posted in "smart" feature phones, Mobile Internet, SaaS, smartphones
Tagged Amazon, Android, Android 2.3, Best Buy, cloud client, Cricket Communications, Cricket PAYGo, Cricket ZTE Chorus, Cricket ZTE Score, EMI Music, feature phones, Gingerbread, Leap Wireless, LTE, Muve First, Muve Headliner, Muve Music, Muve Music v2.4, Qualcomm, SaaS, Samsung Mobile, Samsung Suede, Samsung Vitality, SanDisk, smartphones, SoC, Sony Music Entertainment, Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, ZTE, ZTE X500
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Application Craft: a multiplatform rapid development system and SaaS for HTML5 et al
Application Craft – our one minute overview [Oct 29, 2011] Check out our fantastic one minute video. It shows you just some of the great development features available. Related information: Microsoft and jQuery Mobile, PhoneGap [Oct 13, 2011] More information: – … Continue reading
Posted in Cloud client SW platforms, Cloud SW engineering, HTML5 et al, SaaS, smartphones, tablets
Tagged Android, Apple, Application Craft, cloud client, HTML5, IDE, Integrated Development Environment, JavaScript, jQuery Mobile, Nitobi, PhoneGap, PhoneGap Build, Responsive Design, Ripple, Robert Scoble, Sam Schillace, SmartSites, UX, Windows Phone 7
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$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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