Wednesday, June 2, 2010
Steve Jobs on Where Apple is Going
Steve Jobs, Apple CEO, expounding on a number of subjects at "All Things Digital." Jobs says Apple is not interested in search or TV. But Apple also said it was not interested in phones. I seem to recall that Apple wasn't all that hot on tablets, either.
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
No More Windows at Google?
“We’re not doing any more Windows," said one Google employee. New hires are now given the option of using Apple’s Mac computers or PCs running the Linux operating system.
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Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
Can Google Apps Save a Business Money?
Many enterprises would have a really hard time quantifying the benefits from cloud applications, hosted applications or software as a service.
Google claims it can help businesses quantify how much they can save by switching to Google Apps. Smaller organizations might buy the logic.
Google claims it can help businesses quantify how much they can save by switching to Google Apps. Smaller organizations might buy the logic.
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
Hulu Growth Flattens
As it gears up to offer subscription plans, and more content moves behind a pay wall, growth might even dip a bit.
That's the challenge for any content provider that opts for pay walls: fewer users but more revenue.
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
Games, Music, Social Networking, News and Maps Top Smartphone Downloads
About 21 percent of American wireless subscribers had a smartphone in the fourth quarter of 2009, up from 19 percent in the previous quarter and significantly higher than the 14 percent at the end of 2008.
About 14 percent of mobile subscribers have downloaded an app in the last 30 days. Games, music and social networking apps seem to be high on the list for both smartphone and feature phone users.
News and map applications get much higher use by smartphone users.
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Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
U.S. Users Watched 30.3 Billion Videos in April 2010
YouTube accounted for the vast majority of videos viewed at the property. Hulu ranked second with 958 million videos, or 3.2 percent of all online videos viewed. Microsoft Sites ranked third with 644 million (2.1 percent), followed by Viacom Digital with 384 million (1.3 percent) and Yahoo! Sites with 371 million (1.2 percent).
Some 178 million U.S. Internet users watched online video during the month. Recently launched in December 2009, Vevo (which includes viewing from the Vevo channel on YouTube) attracted 43.6 million viewers in April, representing a quarter of the U.S. online video audience.
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
Yota LTE Shift Raises Questions About Mobile WiMAX
Russian operator Yota says it will cover its next 15 cities with Long Term Evolution instead of WiMAX, and that it would cover Moscow and St. Petersburg with LTE by the end of 2011.
Many industry watchers assumed that Yota would deploy TD-LTE. However, Yota may have acquired additional spectrum to deploy FD-LTE instead.
“If the speculation that Yota is considering FD-LTE deployment and that it will continue running its WiMAX networks in the meantime is true, this shows Yota’s intent to use LTE for fully mobile applications with international roaming," ABI Research practice director Philip Solis says.
Many industry watchers assumed that Yota would deploy TD-LTE. However, Yota may have acquired additional spectrum to deploy FD-LTE instead.
“If the speculation that Yota is considering FD-LTE deployment and that it will continue running its WiMAX networks in the meantime is true, this shows Yota’s intent to use LTE for fully mobile applications with international roaming," ABI Research practice director Philip Solis says.
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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