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• Evans Data Corporation | Reports | View Release | Mobile Development Survey 2011, v1
  The 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 versus Google Ice Cream Sandwich Android OS – Who will win the mobile OS battle? – International Business Times
  Really, more of a praise Apple, diss Android list.
• Mobile Banking Gets Riskier
• PopCap Admits That Developing For Android Is A Struggle
  "Though Android is one of three strategic mobile markets for PopCap, it’s been a challenge because of the breadth and variance of devices."
• In US, Smartphones Now Majority of New Cellphone Purchases | Nielsen Wire
• Despite Microsoft gains, VMware still dominates virtualization market
• Azure: it’s Windows but not as we know it • The Register
• U.S. banks changing out core systems for real-time processing – Computerworld
• Developer Economics 2011 – Winners and losers in the platform race
• "In the coming days of silent planes and graceful aircycles, and cloudless silvery skies, and a…"
• Your company’s own app store
• Mashable – The Social Media Guide
• Despite Android’s Rise, It’s Losing Developer Support
• The cloud and the incredible shrinking office • The Register
• The Ruby Racer: Under the Hood – August 13, 2011 — 09:15 AM
  My man Charles will be presenting on his popular Ruby Racer project the the Lone Star Ruby Conference.
• Adobe AIR and Adobe Flash Player Team Blog
• Mobile web is only half of retail mobile commerce | Mobile Manifesto
  "[W]e’re seeing over 30% higher conversion for iPhone native app customers vs. mobile web customers."
• How To Build A Mobile Website
• SmoresAlertColorJPG.jpg (2625×3375)
• A Useful Collection of iPhone/iPad Apps Developer Tools and Resources | Onextrapixel – Showcasing Web Treats Without A Hitch
• CloudCamp Austin July 20, 2011 – Cloud computing- Eventbrite
  An Austin cloud camp in the evening of July 20, 2011.
• iOS device and OS version stats from Instapaper 3.0 – Marco.org
• QR Code Awareness | Austin & Williams Unplugged
• Is the tablet computer a new PC or post-PC? | asymco
  "The picture that emerges is that while Windows continues to be dominant with 84% of units sold in the last quarter, the growth belongs to tablets which captured about 90% of it."
• Apple Soars to Third Place in U.S. PC Market With 10.7% Share – Mac Rumors
• Is the enterprise dead as a tablet strategy?
  "Simply put, no one is credibly focusing on [the enterprise] and its surrounding eco-channel."
• Microsoft: HP, eBay polishing Azure cloud-in-a-box (honest)
  Azure appliance round-up…
• Amazon to Offer iPad Rival by October
  Whoa: Android everywhere!
• PayPal on Android To Start Hassle-Free NFC Payments
• Microsoft partners are not whooping and cheering for Office 365
• Dancing To The Drumbeat Of HTML5, New Pandora Is Brilliant, Beautiful (MG Siegler/TechCrunch)
  At first, we had been talking about more incremental changes, with the site still operating in Flash. But then last summer, it became clear that browsers with full HTML5 capabilities had gained enough support. We realized we could do the full Pandora experience without Flash."

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• Beyond SaaS; Cloud Computing Update and Investment Opportunities – Trident Capital Blog
  Investing 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 firm also found that 94% of banks surveyed have a mobile banking strategy in place, although for 38%, this strategy has been in place for less than a year."
• Visa Moves Beyond the Point-of-Sale – Delivers Personal Payments to U.S. Account Holders | Business Wire
• The Microsoft/Android war: Which patents are at stake?
• Devops Is a Poorly Executed Scam
  'Culture of respect & trust, good attitude toward failure. How about "culture of stop fucking up"? This is one of those obvious happy-horseshit type statements that makes you believe the salesman is benevolent. A developer who consistently ships broken code or a sysadmin who consistently pushes out broken configuration aren't going to get any better with respect or trust.'
• Communities Dominate Brands: Bloodbath update: Smartphone market at end of June (before the Q2 results)
  An omnibus wrap-up of mobile-world activities from the beginning of July.
• Cloud.com Names Christian Reilly as Vice President of Enterprise Solutions
• Open letter to BlackBerry bosses: Senior RIM exec tells all as company crumbles around him
  "We urgently need to invest like we never have before in becoming developer friendly. The return will be worth every cent. There is no polite way to say this, but it’s true — BlackBerry smartphone apps suck… 25 million iPad users don’t care that it doesn’t have Flash or true multitasking, so why make that a focus in our campaigns? I’ll answer that for you: it’s because that’s all that differentiates our products and its lazy marketing."
• Dell's Lesson for RIM and MS: Do It Steve Jobs' Way
  A pretty up take.
• Q2 2011 Community Health Statistics — The OpenStack Blog
• Heroku | Clojure on Heroku
• Is a Sea Change Coming in the Server Market? « Data Center Knowledge
• Local councils shed CIOs as cuts bite • The Register
• Lulz Security® (LulzSec) releases
• H. P. Lovecraft’s Commonplace Book | Beyond The Beyond
  "This book consists of ideas, images, & quotations hastily jotted down for possible future use in weird fiction. Very few are actually developed plots—for the most part they are merely suggestions or random impressions designed to set the memory or imagination working. Their sources are various—dreams, things read, casual incidents, idle conceptions, & so on.—H. P. Lovecraft
  Presented to R. H. Barlow, Esq., on May 7, 1934—in exchange for an admirably neat typed copy from his skilled hand."
• Cloud.com Escalates Storage Focus With NetApp Deal – Network Computing

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• Q1 2011 Cloud Apps Financial Results Roundup – Software Advice Articles
• Dachis Group Announces Launch of the Social Business Index
  Looks 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 the world's most comprehensive platform for identifying actionable insights, measuring social ROI, and analyzing the effectiveness of strategies and tactics organizations employ to engage the marketplace." Nifty!
• IT pros still not sold on SaaS
• Zenoss Prescribes Cure For The Common Cloud – Network Computing
• Office 365 goes live, gives SMBs a taste of the enterprise
• Preet Bharara Takes on Wall Street Crime
  “People on Wall Street are going to be coming to work with brown pants on. It’s going to change the way they work for a long time.”
• The Cost of Proprietary vs. Public Cloud | Andi Mann – Übergeek
• Forget cool, OpenFlow and networking is now hot!
• News from the Analyst Summit in London
  "more and more vendors respond to the demand of end-users that preventive controls are nice and if doable and affordable they are the best one can do, but in the meantime it is necessary to manage the insecurity, so a lot of products focus on more transparency and thus helping at least knowing what is going on – right or wrong."
• Cloud Application Development and Management Services – Accenture
• IBM – IBM LotusLive Engage helps Signature Mortgage reduce loan processing time (09/24/2010)
  I saw this guy talk on this case back at Lotusphere. It was really good.
• What’s the point of PaaS again? | Ewan's Blog on IT and stuff like it
  "most of the new PaaS offerings out there seem to simply consist of a provisioning engine deploying your application onto a static set of infrastructure, often hosted on Amazon EC2 or their internal equivalent platform, without offering significant functionality of load balancing, dynamic scaling of resources, database performance options, disaster recovery and so on."
• The Web Is Shrinking. Now What? | Digital Quarters
  "When you take these three growth areas out of the picture, the size of the hole left behind is staggering: the rest of the Web – the tried and true core that we thought would have limitless growth – is already shrinking."
• Experian Hitwise – 1 Facebook fan = 20 additional visits to your website
  "Leveraging our unique data sets we now have an answer: for retailers, each new fan acquired on Facebook is worth 20 additional visits to your website over the course of a year."
• Will IBM Go 'All In' On Cloud Computing?
• Hacker Poll: Do You Want To Use a PaaS?
• ServiceNow Makes Help Desk Social – Network Computing
• IBM's Steve Mills talks Oracle and Watson's future
  " IBM's SaaS portfolio] represents about $200 million in revenue."
• Red Hat: 'Yes, we'll break $1 billion this year' • The Register
• Cloud Foundry Open PaaS Deep Dive | Cloud Foundry
• What are the barriers for developers moving to a PaaS like Heroku? – Quora
• On the Battle Lines of PaaS–The Future is Bifurcated
  Trying to sub-categorize the PaaS market.
• Top 5 mobile data protection best practices
  "According to a recent Juniper Networks Inc. survey, 40% of workers reported using their own mobile devices for both personal and business activities; of those, 80% admitted to accessing their employer's network without permission." (thanks to Philippe Dewost in Quora)
• Eclipse Release Train 'Indigo' Launches 62 Projects
• Cloud.com and OpenStack code will merge
  Peder, Cloud.com's CEO, says the cloud.com code-base will merge with OpenStack, eventually, sometime soon. Hey, that's something!
• Dell snaps up RNA Networks
• Adobe updates Flash Builder, Flex; unveils LiveCycle-CQ integration | Applications – InfoWorld
• Microsoft's Windows 8 client to include a hypervisor for virtualization | ZDNet
  This would mean all sorts of interesting things for desktop management. Mostly, making it a lot easier.
• Android 3.1 Platform Highlights | Android Developers
• Alfresco Aims for SMBs, Launches Alfresco Team for Enterprise Collaboration
  This stuff actually looks pretty good.
• Salesforce.com pushing social enterprise concept
  Twittering network gear: "a software product called Isaac that can allow networked devices to securely communicate via social media, said Vala Afshar, chief customer officer."

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• 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 applications
  One of the "Apple runs SAP" rumor write-ups, with job searches to prove it.
• My Cloud Expo preso: Taking the Revolutionary Approach « Barton's Blog
• Walled Gardens, Open Platforms and Rabbits | The Intuit Network
• Rover Puck by CLEAR
  Hey, it looks pretty cool.
• Gartner Sees PaaS Search Query Spike – ReadWriteCloud
• Opscode Unveils Private Chef for the Enterprise — SEATTLE, June 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ –
  "New methods of IT automation are providing IT staff with tools that enable them to deliver applications at a speed that matches the rapid pace of business demands," said Michael Cote, analyst at RedMonk. "I like these new approaches like Opscode's because they seek to fundamentally change, and thus improve, the way IT is managed rather than just incrementally speeding up older approaches. Early adopters looking to get an edge in IT-led innovation will appreciate one of the few toe-holds of differentiation left in today's highly competitive world."
• IBM: 1100100 and counting | The Economist
  The chart tracking hardware vs. software vs. services revenue from 1990 to 2010 is one of the best summaries of IBM you'll get.
• Marketing Survey Registration | LoopFuse OneView
  They say SMBs are doing more sales & marketing automation.
• VMware unfurls fresh Spring Java 'vFabric' • The Register
• IDC starts walking down Windows Phone 7 2015 projections | ZDNet
• Can cloud save the NHS? • The Register
• InfoQ: Getting Started With Spring Integration
• Cloud Computing Is No Fad – Forbes.com
  "The global market for enterprise cloud-based services will grow from $12.1 billion in 2010 to $35.6 billion in 2015 (see Figure 1). The year-on-year growth rate will be 43% in 2011, but will decrease to 13% over the next five years. Software-as-a-service (SaaS) will account for 70% of revenue in 2010, while 30% will be related to infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS). This revenue split will change over the next five years, as IaaS's share increases to 40%."
• Report: The 'Personal Cloud' will be a $12 billion industry by 2016
  "According to a new report by Forrester, the "personal cloud" industry will be in a cloud of its own by 2016. The research company says that, due to fragmented personal technology (all those smartphones, MP3 players, tablets and PCs), the emerging personal cloud ecosystems that tie it all together will make for a $12 billion industry within the next five years…. by 2016, 196 million Americans will be using a personal cloud service and that 97 million will pay for the service — amounting to nearly $6 billion in direct revenue."
• ActiveMQ: not ready for prime time – Good Stuff
  The man didn't like it: "I am writing this so that if you are considering ActiveMQ versus the numerous other open source message queues that you don't make the same mistake that I did… choose something else."
• Twitter / @Helmke: @reillyusa @zolierdos @cot …
• Apple iCloud: Same old cage, new height
  "We haven't banished operating system lock-in, in other words. We've just renamed it 'cloud.'" Ha! That's clever. Rise of the Walled Cloud! The Cloud Castles!
• HP, Microsoft take joint aim at Oracle
  The soap operas continue!
• IBM brings high-performance computing to the cloud
• Enterprise Architecture: From Incite comes Insight…: Enterprise Architecture, SOA and ServiceMix
• InfoQ: Does My Bus Look Big in This?

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• Devopsdays 2011 – MountainView
• Risk, probability, and how our brains are easily misled
• New accounting rules to juice IT numbers – The Register – 2009
  Recognizing 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 [printer-friendly] • The Register
  An extensive piece on Google's PaaS, App Engine.
• HP Delivers Enterprise Agility with New Converged Infrastructure Solutions | Business Wire
• Rackspace plans to triple Austin workforce
  "The San Antonio-based company, which manages more than 66,000 computer servers worldwide, employs nearly 300 people here and is looking to hire more…. Over the next two to three years, the company expects to grow to more than 1,000 workers in Austin."
• iPad for Business Use (for my boss) – Spiceworks Community
• Analysts Predicting Tablet Boon To Cut Into Laptop Market
  "Gartner expects tablet sales of 54 million in 2011, and says that PC shipments in the U.S. will grow less than 10 percent annually on average between 2011 and 2015," that lessening blamed on tablets, of course.
• Salesforce.com CEO Benioff talks growth, analytics, and Microsoft
• IBM Introduces New Offerings to Accelerate Global Software Development – United States
• IDC slashes PC sales forecast for 2011
  "The analysis house projected yearly growth of 7.1 per cent back in February but has downgraded this to just 4.2 per cent following a weak Q1 when sales slipped 1.1 per cent with the markets across Western Europe, North America and Japan at saturation point. 'The PC market has definitely hit a slow patch,' said Loren Loverde, veep for worldwide consumer device trackers at IDC."
• Strange portents in the storage world • The Register
• Ballmer Tap-Dancing On A Wire As World Moves On Without Microsoft
  Hot tip: if you're a tech company in trouble, use this brief window where all eyes are on Microsoft and then Apple at WWDC to get your stuff together before anyone notices.
• LARRY ELLISON: How He Tried To Disrupt Microsoft And Failed
• FT.com / FT Magazine – There’s safety in small numbers
• Forrester calls Google's Chromebook 'corporate idiocy' | Mobile Technology – InfoWorld
• Dell boasts of cloudy server dominance • The Register
• Top security nightmares: Privately owned iPhones, iPads and other mobile devices
• Private clouds hold a wide lead over public clouds among IT pros | Data Center – InfoWorld
  I'm starting to see this pattern in cloud surveys: if you already use cloud, it's just fine an you plan to use more; those who don't use it yet have all sorts of "security" fears and even a tad on cost. The advise: do a small, pilot project instead of FUDing yourself in the head.
• Apps Dominate Mobile Data, But You Can Also See The Cloud Appeal For Apple
  "The data shows that Android users eat up a whopping 582 megabytes of data per month, taking the crown for most data usage of all smartphone owners."
• 10G top-of-rack switches to surge to $1B in sales this year
• SAP Looks to Reinvent Itself with Social Media, Collaboration Capabilities
  Nice round up of what SAP is doing in "social."
• Polycom to buy HP's videoconferencing assets
  Management consultants in action! Ditching parts of the portfolio that don't align with the turn-around plan and all that.
• Dell digital guru escapes to Aussie bank • The Register
• Sinking Sun scuppers Oracle server figures • The Register
• A pivotal moment for Microsoft as it attempts to escape its Windows legacy
  A good overview if Microsoft's ongoing issues and opportunities when it comes to their core technology, Windows.
• Android Share Surges Again, Apple Gains A Bit, RIM Destroyed
• Microsoft: If we 'Build' a new developers conference, will they come?
• Google buys social analytics vendor PostRank
• Stephen Elop's Nokia Adventure – BusinessWeek
• IT increasingly bypassed on cloud adoption
• Oracle Donates OpenOffice.org To Apache: A Quick Analysis
• Microsoft becoming Apple with Windows 8 control freakery? • The Register
• The Keene View on Cloud Computing: Where is the Killer App for PaaS?

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