Posted on February 22nd, 2011 by
murtaza
Smartphone popularity is currently in a phase of exponential growth, individuals searching for high tech devices are replacing traditional mobile phones with feature-laden smartphones. According to Gartner estimates, consumers all across the US would most probably be buying a smartphones than any other devices in 2011. In the US alone, sales are expected to rise [...]
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Filed under: iPhone, mobile application development, open source
Posted on February 11th, 2011 by
ali.zaidi
As part of a new agreement, Nokia will adopt Windows Phone as its choice smartphone platform, and Bing will become the default search engine on all of Nokia’s phones! This is the hottest news in the tech industry. This is a bold move by Nokia which is still the market leader in mobile hardware but [...]
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Filed under: Agile Applications, Global Technology Market, Google Apps, Google OS, iPhone, Microsoft, Microsoft Windows, mobile application development, open source
Posted on September 29th, 2010 by
ali.zaidi
Google has turned its back on Wave, the communication Web app that debuted with much fanfare in 2009. Developers seemed to like what they saw when Google first rolled it out, but since then, adoption has been sub-par, according to the company. Parts of Wave’s system, however, will likely be worked into future Google products, [...]
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Filed under: Google Apps, Google OS, Internet, open source, social networks
Posted on September 27th, 2010 by
ali.zaidi
Some say that one of the reasons why Linux fails in the mass market is its heavy dependency on performing complex tasks via the command line. However Windows have command line to but only and mostly used by the power users. Should Linux concentrate on its GUI rather than command line? Full article from Tech [...]
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Filed under: linux, open source, Software Development
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 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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