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We wrote last week about the state of the cloud services market and how crowded it is becoming.
Cloud Bzz lists more than 30 providers. That includes companies that provide enterprise private clouds, public clouds and public sector clouds. John Treadway's take is that over the next few years there will be at most five or six companies that matter in the cloud infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) space.
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SAP employee Timo Elliott has unveiled a prototype for an augmented reality business intelligence iPhone app. He emphasizes that it's a prototype, not a supported product. It's not available for download yet, but Elliott gives us a look at what an augmented enterprise could look like.
Elliot released some proof-of-concept mock-ups on his blog earlier this year (see our coverage), but the project is now in development at SAP in the BusinessObjects Innovation Center, which Elliot says is based on Google Labs.
The app prototype enables users to mashup location information with any sort of corporate data available in an enterprise's BusinessObjects OnDemand account. The use case Elliot demonstrates is locating the nearest customers and displaying supplemental information.
Cloud computing has been a boon to tech startups, allowing them to build, launch and scale without substantial up-front investment in hardware. But at what point does the moving from the cloud to a data center make more sense - for both performance and cost?
Facebook announced plans earlier this year to build a custom data center in Prineville, Oregon, and Twitter announced last week that it plans to build one near Salt Lake City, Utah. And web app maker 37Signals isn't building its own data center, but it did reveal last week that it will move its infrastructure from Rackspace hosting to a colocation space in a Chicago data center.
As Jonathan Heiliger, Facebook's VP of Technical Operations said at last month's Structure 2010 conference, "For a consumer web site starting today, I would absolutely run on the cloud. It allows you to focus on building your product. But if you have 10 million users, that's a pretty big check I'm writing to someone else. How much control do I have?"
A study from wireless billing vendor Validas has revealed that Verizon Wireless smartphone owners are now exceeding the data usage of iPhone owners, who are currently restricted to AT&T. According to the study, average data consumption on Verizon smartphones is 421 MB as opposed to 338 MB on the iPhone. Out of all the vendors, Verizon Wireless has seen the largest data usage increase over the past year, jumping from 33.4% to 42.9%.
Since Blackberry devices were excluded from the study (and they compress data anyway), that leaves Windows Mobile, Android, Symbian and Palm's webOS to blame (or thank?) for the Verizon phones' data-hogging ways. But given Motorola's extremely strong Droid sales, most of that data usage is likely to have occurred with Droid devices like the Motorola Droid.
The 2009-2010 Validas study looks at year-over-year trends in wireless data usage across U.S. carriers. The data was drawn from 20,000 consumer wireless bills, analyzed from January through May 2010. To be clear, Validas did not detail the Droid's data usage in the study versus the other phones. We're assuming Droid data usage surpassed data usage on other phones. Below we explain why that assumption is a likely one.
As the popularity of augmented reality (AR) grows and the technology becomes increasingly easier to develop, it is hard to find an area of our every day lives that is not being augmented. Sports have played a large role in the proliferation of AR - you can thank the technology for telling you where the first-down line is on Sunday - and it's being brought right down to field level now with mobile applications. Last weekend during a brief vacation, I played a round of golf and was able to test out Golfscape, an iPhone app that helps golfers determine distances with an AR rangefinder.
Golfscape is made by Shotzoom Software, the company behind the popular Golfshot app which provides GPS distances, stat tracking and score keeping. Why the AR functionality isn't simply packaged in with the original Golfshot app is almost beyond me - it may have something to do with the fact that Shotzoom charges $29.99 for Golfshot and $19.99 for Golfscape.
China's vibrant "shanzhai" (also "shanzai") industry, which modifies or knocks off existing electronic products, quickly pounced on the iPad as it did many other phones and devices. Shanzai.com, a site that reviews these ersatz gadgets, reported the first iPad clone in March. Since then the faux iPads have reportedly been selling like crazy. "China's shanzhai industry is rolling out 'iPads' faster that people can say 'one gig or two'!" CNNGo wrote in June.
But months after the iPad's release, Chinese news media are reporting that the market for fake iPads has slowed dramatically. Why?
Lax intellectual property enforcement has fueled China's scrappy shanzhai industry, especially for consumer electronics. Shanzai phones and gadgets are often cheaper, more available and may come with creative twists, like the inPad's multiple USB ports or the slide-out keyboard that doubles as a stand on an unnamed, but clearly iPad-inspired, tablet device.
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