Posted in Cloud Computing, Internet, SaaS, tagged Salesforce.com, VMWare on April 13, 2010| Leave a Comment »
All we can do is speculate at this point, but this looks like it could be very interesting…more thoughts as they come.
More thoughts as promised…
We are likely looking at something along the lines of Amazon’s EC2 offer. Interesting, but not exactly earthshattering. Pre-announcing now has served to generate a lot of interest – lets hope that there is something more at play.
Posted in Internet, Miscellany, tagged advertising, twitter on April 13, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Tomorrow is d-day for Twitter as it will begin to introduce ads in an effort to turn Tweeters into dollars and cents. As I understand it, Tweeter will soon find ads at the top of the search list based upon keywords that have been used. So a search for Starbucks might yield Tweets from Starbucks advertising $0.50 off a Grande Latte or whatever. The next step is apparently to insert advertiser Tweets into your Twitter feed.
Posted in Cloud Computing, Wireless, tagged apple, Gartner, Google Android, iPhone, MIcrosoft on April 13, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Microsoft announced the Kin One and Kin Two yesterday. The phones will be only found on the Verizon (US) network to begin, and then making its way to Vodaphone networks in Spain, the UK, Germany and Italy. It is worth remembering that Vodaphone has a healthy interest in Verizon Wireless. Nothing in Canada at present, which is fairly typical as far as wireless product introduction goes (the Canadian iPhone launched a year after the US). Bell and Microsoft have had a very good relationship in the past, so Bell Mobility would seem as likely a candidate as any to offer the devices in the future.
Posted in Canada, tagged Amazon on April 12, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Seems Amazon has been granted the ability to open its own distribution centre in Canada. I wonder if this will have any impact on the service they deliver to Canadian consumers? Amazon Prime anyone?
Posted in Canada, Cloud Computing, HR, tagged Canada, Cloud, Federal Government on April 12, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Read this. It is good to see that the Canadian federal government seems committed to the cloud. The fact that they seem to have moved beyond strategizing and roadmaps to actual deployment of cloud based services is a good thing, and ought to bode well as they move forward. The government’s existing IT infrastructure would seem to resemble a tangled nightmare and a move to cloud based computing should result in significant cost savings and productivity increases across the board. If they get it right…
Thoughts on things 