Ehealth is no longer a dream and we had further evidence of this at Mobile World Congress today in Barcelona while visiting the “connected house” pavilion. Let’s zoom into these solutions of a very very near future in which our…
It may seem strange but somehow, I’m not entirely certain that innovation is always where you think it is. Sometimes it lurks in corners, or even is conspicuous but you were looking in another direction. Perhaps that’s what happened at…
First few slices of technological innovation at the 2012 MWC event. You certainly know you are in Spain when you can spot the Patanegra at a buffet, but the motivation for the happy few who were present and invited act…
As I started writing this article at the beginning of October 2011 , the http://www.programmableweb.com/[1] web site indicated on its home page that it has identified 4007 APIs and 6175 mash-ups on a global footprint: At the moment you are reading this piece on the Visionary Marketing, I am certain these numbers are completely outdated. I agree that, Dear Developers, these numbers are still very far from your ‘Ocean of Apps’ but this new ecosystem nevertheless starts to look like a ‘Jungle of APIs’.
2011 Worldwide Mobile OS market share comparison. There are several ways of looking at the market share comparison map by iCrossing. One is to highlight that Apple now has gone over the 50% market share mark in many countries (per…
Microsoft is trying to kill the good ol’ PC once again, but it might not work. As Erik Sherman demonstrates in his piece on the death of the PC. After all, as the late Mark Weiser (the true inventor of tablets)…
On June 1, 2010, we paid a visit to Nexenta, to attend a company presentation on data centre storage innovation delivered by Jon Ash, VP of Sales and Marketing and Brad Stone, CTO. There are 30 people working for Nexenta,…
To deploy a new cloud can be time-consuming. With Joyent, things may change greatly for service providers. The last visit of our November press tour in Silicon Valley took place in downtown San Francisco, with Joyent, an innovative company dedicated…
Back in June 2010, we visited Blade Network Technologies, a Nortel spin-off which was doing exceptionally well in the data centre business by providing networking infrastructure and services within the data centre. Blade Network Technologies and IBM: plans for the…
Fusion-io isn’t just about flash io-memory technology, it’s about scaling up. On November 16, we paid the scale-up a visit. Fusion-io is the epitome of these successful technology companies as can be found almost only in the US and which…
