ServicesAngle and Wikibon Roundtable Discussion: Integration Activity Streams and Applications, Mobile Platforms

During the recently concluded Lotusphere 2012 event, ServicesAngle and Wikibon conducted a Roundtable discussion on IBM’s various cloud, social and mobile initiatives. The participants include myself, IBM executive Suzanne Livingston, Bob Sutor from IBM, Alex Williams, Klint Finley and Jeff Kelly. It was a good discussion. They had the roundtable live (and recorded it) using [...]

Some Observations On Google’s Mobile Strategy

Today, Techmeme is full of news coming from Google’s Mobile press event. The two interesting announcement from Google areA way to instantly send links, maps, etc. to Android phones from desktops. It is a clever interplay between three Google properties…

Importance Of Open Source In Mobile OS

This says it all and I don’t even have to do any explaining to emphasize the title of this post. As the sun set over the Silicon Valley last night, Google pushed the source code for Android 2.0 to the Android Open Source Project. Within two hours, the endlessly able Android community had it up [...]

Open Wireless dream might be a reality in the near future

When Google announced Open Handset Alliance and the release of Android SDK under open source license, I was pretty excited. In fact, few people like Robert Scoble even questioned my excitement during a twitter conversation. Some of the arguments put forward by pundits against my excitement towards Google’s strategy were Android is boring and the [...]