by David M. Smith | September 15, 2010 | Comments Off
There has been much talk of Google by way of its partnership with Verizon vis a vis Net Neutrality. Many opinions describe it as Google going against its long standing “don’t be evil’” mantra. No comment here on that topic. However, Google has indeed backed the concept of net neutrality for a long time. It [...]
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by David M. Smith | September 10, 2010 | 3 Comments
News broke overnight about Microsoft Office executive Stephen Elop moving to Nokia as CEO. This by itself is shocking news, but what other shocking aftershocks might follow? I’m no Nokia expert. All I know is that my first mobile phone was from Nokia back in the 90s but that nothing they’ve made recently has been [...]
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by David M. Smith | September 2, 2010 | 2 Comments
Disclaimer: I’m ranting about the term PaaS, not the concept. We just published the 2010 Hype Cycle for Cloud Computing and is it a surprise that the most hyped term (other than cloud computing itself), is PaaS? This is in part due to legitimate excitement about some of the offerings and possibilities. However there [...]
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by David M. Smith | June 30, 2010 | Comments Off
I am one again amazed at the buzz (sic) generated by the prospect of Google once again entering the social networking space. Originally the rumor was attributed to Kevin Rose of Digg (the link appears to be dead now, but it was picked up other places like here. But, isn’t Google a ‘web 2.0’ [...]
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by David M. Smith | May 19, 2010 | 1 Comment
I spent today at the Google I/O developer conference. Fun Fact: Google claims it stands for Innovation and Open. Day one (unfortunately only able to attend one day) had two main themes: one was about the web, the other about the cloud. Big implications for both. The Web, including HTML5, video and a web app [...]
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by David M. Smith | March 17, 2010 | 2 Comments
As expected, MIX10 was home to a lot of excitement. lots of cool stuff. Front and center was the grand unveiling of the developer story for Windows 7 phone. As outlined in my post about the earlier announcement I was looking for certain things at Mix and I said I would revisit after Mix. [...]
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by David M. Smith | February 16, 2010 | 3 Comments
Microsoft’s long awaited announcement of its mobile strategy at the Mobile World Congress this week did not disappoint. There is no shortage of commentary on it but i will reserve my opinion until I see what is announced at MIX10 in a couple of weeks. MIX is one of Microsoft’s development conferences, focused on [...]
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by David M. Smith | February 12, 2010 | 9 Comments
I expect that Google was hoping and thinking that Buzz would be a turning point in their social networking success. (On a side note, isn’t it amazing that Google, a “posterchild” company for web 2.0, a concept which is often associated with social networking, has not yet been successful in it… ) Back to [...]
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by David M. Smith | November 18, 2009 | Comments Off
After I just posted my previous entry titled Silverlight Steals the Show! I realized i had also buried the XRM non-news. So I was guilty of burying it almost as much as Microsoft is. So below is the last paragraph from the post, highlighting the non-news. Don’t get too non-excited about the non-news… XRM is [...]
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by David M. Smith | November 18, 2009 | Comments Off
At day 2 of Microsoft PDC09 in Los Angeles today. Time for a quick set of highlights. More to come in a lot of research in the coming days. The overachieving announcement: Silverlight 4 The big news today is Silverlight, Specifically the beta of version 4. Siverlight continues its march towards providing moreand more [...]
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