Google’s expected tablet announcement may be hours away, but some of the goals being set for it by the developers whose conference would be the platform for the launch seem unlikely to be fulfilled. Developers want a unified platform for Android, but Google has clearly lost control over the Android development process and may never…
The challenges with coming to terms with technical concepts in our Age of Hype is embodied in a story about SDN that appears in Network World. The story lists five drivers of SDN transition, which include mobility, the cloud, consumerization of IT, traffic patterns in data centers, and agile service delivery. The challenge is that…
With Microsoft entering the tablet business it’s fair to wonder just how far they’ll go to emulate Apple. The decision by Apple to suddenly give big raises to its retail employees could be an indication they believe a rival is going to launch a store and might pirate Apple employees. Microsoft might well have those…
This morning I found a press release from Telefonica that described their cooperation with China Unicom and Telstra on creating a platform for managing SIMs used for embedded M2M applications. The solution will be compatible with the GSMA standard and Giesecke&Devrient, a German-based integrator, will provide technology support. What I find interesting about this is…
Some early data from my spring enterprise survey is suggesting an interesting shift in behavior and policy in business use of voice services. The stuff isn’t surprising at one level, but it may be having a significant impact on the future of communication and collaboration. Over the last three years, my surveys of “mobility” among…
Tablets, say the research, are becoming a more favored platform for video viewing, with one in ten tablet users viewing content at least daily. The key point in the data may not be the frequency, which likely surprises no one, but the demography. The largest tablet penetration is in the key 25-35 year-olds, the swing…
Microsoft’s new tablet, the “Surface” was announced with much fanfare, but the product has been getting mixed reviews in no small part because it’s really not possible to review it at all. You can’t get one, even to play with, so far. No pun intended, but on the surface the device appears well-made and it…
Last week’s story of Nokia’s fall from grace in the handset market probably didn’t surprise anyone because it’s been a slow and agonizing decline, a wasting away for all to see. At this point, turning around almost certainly would require the company being acquired, either by another player or by a private equity firm who…
It’s one of those days of a buffet of items that missed the cut during the week. There’s a theme though, which is the evolution of broadband and Internet. Microsoft announced it’s going to buy Yammer, a company who specializes in creating a kind of social workplace, a collaborative framework based not on evolved voice…
Never one to shun conflict or controversy, Cisco has probably created both with its announcement of its SDN strategy at its “Live” event yesterday. It would be fair to say that Cisco didn’t even blow a kiss at OpenFlow, it only promised to blow a kiss at some point in the future. Needless to say,…