Tweet Google Music with Last.fm | Daniel SlaughterWhoa! This guy did some JavaScript work to wire up Google Music it Last.fm. I can finally scrobble again! Counting Calories? Your Weight-Loss Plan May Be Outdated Carbon Disclosure Project’s emissions reduction claims for cloud computing are flawed – GreenMonk: the blog Apple Has Sold 222 Million iOS [...]
Tweet I’ve been doing a lot of mobile research lately. Can you tell? ;> Evans Data Corporation | Reports | View Release | Mobile Development Survey 2011, v1The three free pages have some good stuff, for sure. HTML 5 Editor Ian Hickson discusses features, pain points, adoption rate, and more | TechRepublic Apple iOS 5 [...]
Tweet Mobile app momemtumSome App store momentum numbers I collected this afternoon: number of apps, iPad apps, and downloads. Starbucks Mobile Payments Coming to Android & 1,000 Safeway Locations 5 Big Trends in Mobile Commerce [STUDY] BlackBerry's Blues Continue as Platform Falls to Third Place Starbucks Card Mobile Is a Hit: 3 Million People Pay [...]
Tweet Magic Quadrant for x86 Server Virtualization Infrastructure Bickel Blog: PaaS and ADHD"Sure, it is taking time for the example Heroku set in the Ruby marketplace to be understood by the enterprise and Java folks, but the wake-up call has happened. It is clear that PaaS will displace App Servers and infrastructure virtualization needs for [...]
Tweet Beyond SaaS; Cloud Computing Update and Investment Opportunities – Trident Capital BlogInvesting opportunities in the cloud space. What s the ROI of Mobile Banking? 15.7%, Forrester Says – Bank Technology News"Forrester estimates that overall, mobile banking usage among U.S. adults has increased from 4% in 2006 to 16% at the end of 2010. The [...]
Tweet Q1 2011 Cloud Apps Financial Results Roundup – Software Advice Articles Dachis Group Announces Launch of the Social Business IndexLooks like some kind of Big Data powered aggregator of the junk flowing through social networks: "The Social Business Index, built on top of Dachis Group's Social Business Intelligence as a Service (SBIaaS) Platform, is [...]
Tweet Adobe offloads unwanted Linux AIR onto OEMs Dell plugs hole in virtualization stack Who'll Be Rich? Those Under 35 With $100K Household Income | Ad Age Stat – Advertising Age'It turns out a major predictor of wealth is one's earning a high income in his or her 20s. Those below the age of 34 [...]
Tweet YouTube – The Many Faces of SAP at Apple, Part II SAP's McDermott Sees No Big Acquisitions After Sybase"SAP also provides software behind Apple’s iTunes media download service." Not invented here: Apple's secret applicationsOne of the "Apple runs SAP" rumor write-ups, with job searches to prove it. My Cloud Expo preso: Taking the Revolutionary [...]
Tweet Devopsdays 2011 – MountainView Risk, probability, and how our brains are easily misled New accounting rules to juice IT numbers – The Register – 2009Recognizing revenue at the time of sale for integrated systems (like UCS) instead or spreading it across the life of the product. App Engine: Google's deepest secrets as a service [...]
Tweet The Lords of Strategy: The Secret Intellectual History of the New Corporate World (9781591397823): Walter Kiechel: BooksThis is a pretty damn fine book, you know, if you’re into this kind of topic. Short logic (LNKD worth just 63% of peak high)“Since IPO’ing two weeks ago, the stock has tumbled from $122 to $77. So [...]