Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Kansas City, Mo. Also Gets i-Gbps from Google
Google has said it will extend its symmetrical 1-Gbps fiber to the home network across the river from Kansas City,Kan. to Kansas City, Mo. as well.
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.
"Trust" Now a Big Issue for Media, Business and Government
U.S citizens now trust business and government less in 2011 than they did in 2010. About six percent fewer U.S. respondents say they "can trust government to do what is right." At 40 percent of respondents, U.S. levels of trust in government are nearly identical to view of Russians about their own government. About 39 percent of Russian respondents think they can trust government to do what is right.
About 46 percent of U.S. respondents say they can "trust business to do what is right."
Media fares even worse than business or government, though. Just 27 percent of U.S. respondents say they "trust media to do what is right." Media scores dropped 11 percent since 2010.
read more here
About 46 percent of U.S. respondents say they can "trust business to do what is right."
Media fares even worse than business or government, though. Just 27 percent of U.S. respondents say they "trust media to do what is right." Media scores dropped 11 percent since 2010.
read more here
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.
Reputation Management in a Social World
It is by now commonplace that online reputation can be affected quickly and widely on social media. For many brands, that means activities to manage, shape or respond to these threats to a firm's reputation now are necessary.
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.
78% of IT Professionals Use Personal Devices for Work
A survey of 100 information technology professionals indicates just how much intermingling of "business issued" and "personal" devices now happens at enterprises.
The respondents indicate that 78 percent use personal devices for business-related purposes or use corporate devices to connect to personal applications. It is possible that those ratios do not apply equally to most enterprise employees, since the respondents are among the "most technical" employees at an enterprise.
And though most are worried about the impact such personal devices pose for enterprise security policies, fully 35 percent of the IT professionals say they also violating their corporate policies at least occasionally.
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.
Where Voice is Headed
A couple of key points are that voice shifts from being a fixed network service to being primarily a wireless service; shifts from being a stand-alone "service" to an attribute of some other application or experience; and that it increasingly is delivered "over the top" as an application, not as a provisioned service.
None of those key observations would be unexpected, or necessarily good news for today's telecom providers. "Voice" in the future will be a feature or attribute, not necessarily a service sold by a telco as a specific service.
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.
Monday, May 16, 2011
SAP Focuses on Mobile Apps
Germany's SAP AG sees the business-software industry's future in mobile apps. The corollary is that SAP sees cloud-based software as the future.
Bill McDermott and Jim Hagemann Snabe, who took over as co-chief executives in February 2010 following revenue and profit shortfalls, have sold investors on a plan to make SAP a growth company again in part by bringing the consumer mobile-app craze to the enterprise.
By combining its business-software assets with Sybase, which it acquired last year, SAP hopes to build a mobile powerhouse, offering its customers mobile versions of SAP's business software and the ability to easily build and securely manage their own mobile apps.
By combining its business-software assets with Sybase, which it acquired last year, SAP hopes to build a mobile powerhouse, offering its customers mobile versions of SAP's business software and the ability to easily build and securely manage their own mobile apps.
SAP Focuses on Mobile-App Software - WSJ.com (subscription required)
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.
Microsoft to Buy Nokia?
A report by a Russian blogger with good sources inside Nokia has prompted rumors that Microsoft is looking to buy the Finnish giant‘s phone business. Nokia denies the rumor.
The blogger, Edlar Murtazin, has a good track record: he predicted the Microsoft-Nokia partnership as long ago as December. Now he says that next week, Nokia will begin talks about the sales of the unit to Microsoft. The deal could close before the end of 2011. “Both companies are in a big hurry,” he writes (in Russian).
The blogger, Edlar Murtazin, has a good track record: he predicted the Microsoft-Nokia partnership as long ago as December. Now he says that next week, Nokia will begin talks about the sales of the unit to Microsoft. The deal could close before the end of 2011. “Both companies are in a big hurry,” he writes (in Russian).
These sorts of rumors have surfaced in the past, but never in the context of an abandonment by Nokia of Symbian and an embrace of Microsoft as Nokia's key smart phone operating system.
On the other hand, some will question the logic. Microsoft always has preferred an "open" approach where its operating system can be freely licensed by many other hardware providers. Buying Nokia would put Microsoft into competition with its partners.
Buying Nokia would essentially put Nokia out of business. It isn't so clear that makes sense, either. And all such large acquisitions are fraught with integration risk. One hopes, for both companies, that the rumor is false.
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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