Social readers seemed to make a lot of sense. After all, long before there was a Facebook, there was a New York Times “most emailed” list. We apparently just love to share our enthusiasm or disgust for a remarkable story. Mashable breaks it down for you: Social reader apps were... Read More »
Editor's Note: This article originally appeared in The Telegraph (UK) and appears on CloudBlog with permission. Thanks to Shane Richmond, Head of Technology (Editorial) at Telegraph Media Group. - @jtaschek During the Industrial Age, companies were formed for a number of reasons: to achieve scale; to increase reach; to simplify... Read More »
Facebook’s IPO (NASDAQ: FB) has taken its rightful place in the history books, but the attention has shed new light on its biggest challenge: mobile advertising. About 25 percent of our time consuming media is sent on a mobile device, yet mobile accounts for only two percent of total advertising.... Read More »
Cameras lined the steps to the Sheraton in midtown Manhattan, eager to get a glimpse of the headliner at a packed house for the show about to unfold. A new Broadway star? A young lion of Hollywood? Nope. Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook arriving to take part in the... Read More »
Amazon’s EC2 is increasingly functioning as an on-demand supercomputer, according to a fascinating piece by Jon Brodkin in Ars Technica. It’s another example of scale and heft moving to the cloud, and in the process democratizing the availability of high-end computing capability previously accessed by only the “one percent” of... Read More »
Another report has the PC on the endangered species list, especially with consumers. Forrester’s take, “Tablets Will Rule The Future Personal Computing Landscape,” sees PC squeezed out by beefier tablets more robust cloud services, and a new class of device called “frames.” The numbers alone are similar to previous studies... Read More »
Twitter’s buzzworthy announcement of its “Innovator’s Patent Agreement” could rewrite the tangled web of patent litigation in the technology world. Just to refresh you, he’s what that web looks like for mobile patents alone (source: Reuters): Twitter is proposing that its IPA can help prevent patents from being used to... Read More »
Some eye-popping numbers from Gartner on the outlook for tablets: 2016 global tablet sales should reach 369.3 million units Apple seen leading market with 169.7 million units by 2016 Android unit sales seen rising eight-fold over same period Those numbers are bold enough, but what caught my eye is Gartner’s... Read More »
It looks like we are near a tipping point for the social enterprise. According to a survey of more than 1300 executives and IT decision-makers, a full 49% have invested in social networking solutions in 2012. But for most of these forward-thinking companies, the journey is just beginning: just 19%... Read More »
Soon everyone on earth will be connected. It’s over. People are getting connected. Things are getting connected. Whole communities are getting connected. And when communities get connected, other things begin to happen. They become markets. Entire markets in themselves. And at the same time participants in larger markets. It’s fractal,... Read More »
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