
Posted on July 13th, 2010 by
ali.zaidi
If online reports are to be believed, Google could be cooking up a rival for Facebook — and bringing the maker of popular social games like “FarmVille” with them.
Google Games, built around some sort of partnership with casual-gaming company Zynga, is in the works and would be part of a larger social network called Google [...]
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Filed under: Global Technology Market, Google Apps, Web 2.0

Posted on July 12th, 2010 by
ali.zaidi
Linux is easy to learn, highly capable of fulfilling a typical computer user’s needs, and 100 percent free. So why is it that Linux still has such a miniscule share of the overall desktop market? Maybe its gratis nature has been keeping it down. It seems that when consumers don’t know enough about a product, [...]
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Filed under: Enterprise Agility, Enterprise Software, Global Technology Market, Innovative Business Models, Management, linux, open source

Posted on June 8th, 2010 by
ali.zaidi
For months, the tech press has been drooling over details of a next-generation Apple iPhone, which likely will be unveiled on Monday at an event in California.
The phone is expected to be fitted with a higher-resolution screen, a front-facing camera that can be used for video conferencing and a camera flash.
But even with those new [...]
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Filed under: Global Technology Market, Smartphones, Software Development, iPhone, mobile application development

Posted on May 26th, 2010 by
murtaza
Companies, in the ‘historic’ days, based their supply chains on a simple formula: ‘Push in more and the supply is gonna make its own demand’. Today, supply has been deprived of this ‘demand-creating autonomy’. A lot of things along with higher availability are required to push up demands. Advertising, broadcasting, promoting and not to forget [...]
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Filed under: Agile Applications, Enterprise Agility, Enterprise Software, Global Technology Market

Posted on May 17th, 2010 by
ali.zaidi
flash, sharply rejected by Jobs and Company, has moved on to Apple’s (Nasdaq: AAPL) competitors, hoping for a warm welcome and the promise of a place in the mobile market. While Apple CEO Steve Jobs’ recent open letter deploring Adobe’s (Nasdaq: ADBE) Flash managed to do little in terms of settling the argument as to who was right in [...]
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Filed under: Business Dynamics, Global Technology Market, Web 2.0, adobe

Posted on April 19th, 2010 by
ali.zaidi
Twitter’s now playing the ad game much like Google, and today Google announced a new way to search tweets that beats Twitter’s own search bar. Are these two companies on a collision course to become hated rivals soon? Or does the future hold a more cooperative relationship between the two — [...]
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Filed under: Global Technology Market

Posted on April 9th, 2010 by
ali.zaidi
The growing rancor between Apple and Google has been generally fed by Google’s attempt to outdo Apple’s iPhone with its Android software. But now Apple is taking aim at Google’s bread-and-butter–online advertising–with plans to introduce a mobile advertising platform called iAd along with the release of the iPhone OS [...]
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Filed under: Agile Applications, Business Dynamics, Global Technology Market, Software Development, iPhone