Google Criticism

Here is an article about Google. In the article Donald Norman's criticism is a little harsh but he mentioned very good point about Google. Last few years Google became an ordinary technology company and loosing its innovative power.

Donald Norman: He is an academic in the field of cognitive science, design and usability engineering and a co-founder and consultant with the Nielsen Norman Group. He is the author of the book The Design of Everyday Things.

http://gigaom.com/2011/09/05/don-norman-google-doesnt-get-people-it-sells-them/

Cloud Computing Rivals and Amazon Web Services

Amazon Web Services is the largest cloud service provider by far. Amazon, like most of the big cloud providers, doesn’t disclose much about current or planned data centers. Accenture analyst estimates that Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) runs on a 450,000 servers. Amazon does not break out AWS revenue, but some say it could already be a billion dollar business. Here are seven cloud rivals;

1: Rackspace: Rackspace encompasses managed services and pure hosting businesses, it’s also a major cloud provider with actual, paying customers.

2: Google: Google could already be the biggest cloud player. If you count all that Google Apps and Gmail storage, then Google’s obviously a huge player.

3: Microsoft: Windows Azure has big capacity, but actual traction is unclear. Microsoft just launched an Azure focused startup accelerator in Israel to help boost demand. Next week, it is expected to announce timing for the first of its ERP products.

4: IBM: IBM SmartCloud is coming up fast.

5: Hewlett-Packard: HP’s been all over the map on cloud plans, promising an Azure-based implementation a few years ago that has gone nowhere but HP’s cloud will add features and capabilities beyond what AWS provides.

6: VMware: VMware’s vCloud already runs a ton of clouds for third-party providers, and the company’s Cloud Foundry platform-as-a-service is gaining traction.

7: Facebook:With more than 800 million users, Facebook doesn’t offer cloud services now, but then again, Amazon used to just sell books. Facebook could evolve into many things.

Google Enters Tablet Market

Google enters tablet market with a cheap Android tablet. 7-inch Google Nexus tablet would launch this year.

Here is an article about that topic : 

http://gigaom.com/mobile/report-google-nexus-tablet-a-done-deal/

The Next iPhone Will Be Apple's Biggest Launch Ever ??

Here is an article about iPad and iPhone. UBS’ investment research team said it expects the coming iPhone5 to be Apple’s “biggest launch ever.”

The new iPhone is expected to be a fully redesigned product, fueling higher than average “excitement and buzz,” but more importantly, a stronger than expected “upgrade cycle for existing iPhone users and continue to encourage other smartphone and non-smartphone users to make the switch. 

http://www.forbes.com/sites/afontevecchia/2012/03/16/forget-the-ipad-the-next-iphone-will-be-apples-biggest-launch-ever/

Twitter Acquires Posterous

Twitter has acquired blogging platform Posterous. Posterous has specialization on simplification of blogging. 

Some of the features on Posterous are autopost everywhere, post tagging via email, group blogging, group blog doubled as email list, and Posterous Spaces.

Twitter’s purpose with this acquisition to be a destination portal. It will embed the Posterous experience into its operating environment to expand values of its microblogging platform.

Social Demographics: Women Use Social Media More Than Men !

It’s very interesting result for demographics that women use social media more than men. More women are on Facebook and Twitter. About 57% of Facebook and 59% of Twitter users are women.

More than 66% of adults are connected to one or more social media platforms. The infographic breaks down the demographics, including education level, income, age and gender of social media users, along with other miscellaneous facts.

http://mashable.com/2012/03/09/social-media-demographics/

Mobile Market Research 2011

Mobile market research published in Vision Mobile Blog about 2011 mobile sector. We can see from the research that in 2011 ;

- There were nearly 1,630 mobile handsets shipped (483 mio were smartphone)
- Smartphone penetration %30
- Smartphone Market Share by OEM (%20 Samsung, %19 Apple, %16 Nokia, %11 RIM)
- Smartphone Market Share by OS (%49 Android , %19 iOS, %16 Symbian)
- Top 5 mobile phone vendors (Nokia, Samsung,Apple,Lg,ZTE) 

Links about that topic

http://www.visionmobile.com/blog/2012/02/infographic-100-million-club-top-smartphone-facts-and-figures-in-2011/

Mobile sector grows fast in terms of market changes. We are going to see more innovations in this area due to dynamics .