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, linux, Management, 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 [...]
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Filed under: Global Technology Market, iPhone, mobile application development, Smartphones, Software 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: adobe, Business Dynamics, Global Technology Market, Web 2.0
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 — one of partnership, or [...]
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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 4.0 software later this summer. Apple’s [...]
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Filed under: Agile Applications, Business Dynamics, Global Technology Market, iPhone, Software Development
Posted on March 3rd, 2010 by
ali.zaidi
Dries Buytaert of Drupal and Acquia is warning that Software as a Service is becoming a threat to open source and that clouds could create the same vendor lock-in customers sought to avoid with open source. Even where SaaS companies let customers take back their data, they often don’t let them take the code underlying [...]
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Filed under: Business Dynamics, Drupal, Enterprise Software, Global Technology Market, open source, SaaS, SOA & Agile Applications, Software Development
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