Wall Street and the press are clinging hopefully to an iMore blog rumor – that some like Reuters and Bloomberg checked with their own Apple sources – saying Apple will introduce a major product – presumably either the iPhone 5 or the supposed unconfirmed seven-inch iPad mini – or even both – on Wednesday September 12. Naturally there could some time shifting. Unlike its timeless predecessors, the iPhone 5 is expected to be thinner, have a bigger four-inch screen and work on LTE wireless networks. It would reportedly be available nine days later on Friday September 21. There could also a new iPad Nano.
People are accustomed to buying goods online. If a company sells products to individuals, we call it B2C for Business To Consumers. If a business sells to other businesses – it’s B2B. Having an online store allows to sell around the clock regardless of the consumer’s location (at least within the country) as long as he or she is connected to the Internet. People spend some substantial time online and sellers are trying to reach their clients via all possible channels and devices being that a regular HTML Web page, a social network, a mobile application on any device with embedded browser. Still, some people aren’t Internet savvy and business will continue using more traditional channels like printed mail order catalogs. This is what the multi-channel marketing is about. Ideally, a business should be able to combine marketing the products with selling them right there. If you’ve seen the product commercial on Facebook or your mobile phone the storefront should be there too.
Few days ago I blogged about how GridGain easily supports starting many GridGain nodes in the single JVM – which is a huge productivity boost during the development. I’ve got a lot of requests to…
Apple has quietly offered to buy publicly held AuthenTec Inc for roughly $356 million, according to an SEC filing discovered last Friday. Fourteen-year-old AuthenTec does sensor-based fingerprint authentication, encryption and identity management for mobile devices. Two weeks ago AuthenTec signed up Samsung, which Apple is suing for patent infringement, to use its VPN widgetry in its new Android-based Galaxy smartphones and tablets. There was speculation the alliance provoked Apple to act.
Photographs of what could be Apple’s next iPhone surfaced Sunday, giving impatient iPhone fans an idea of what Apple could be unveiling sometime during the next few months. Maybe. Possibly. It all depends on whether the parts are actually from Apple. Chinese-language repair site iLab.cc reports it assembled an iPhone 5 using individual parts that [...]
One of the features in GridGain’s In-Memory Data Platform that often goes unspoken for is ability to launch multiple GridGain nodes in the single JVM. Now, as trivial as it sounds… can you start multiple JBoss or WebLogic or Infinisnap or Gigaspaces or Coherence or (gulp) Hadoop 100% independent runtimes in the single JVM? The answer is no.
RPost, the company that owns Registered Email, has gotten two new patents that cover the systems and methods service providers use to track e-mail delivery or failure using server logs. RPost says the protocol-level technology was novel in 1999 when RPost first filed for the patents and widely used today. The new patents are US Patent numbers 8,224,913, granted the week before last, and 8,209,389, granted in June. RPost intends to license them to thousands of e-mail service providers and “vigorously pursue infringement proceedings against unlicensed users.” That includes e-mail marketers, e-mail campaign delivery companies, social media companies, postal operators and cloud-based business applications. It says most e-mail service providers and cloud business applications have begun to differentiate their products by providing more analytics so their customers can measure the success or failure of the delivery of messages.
Managing software application performance is complex and increasingly challenging. Surprisingly, even today, massive IT resources remain chained to ensuring applications and infrastructures are up and running smoothly, rather than proactively leveraging strategic technologies to solve business problems or achieve competitive advantage. That world is changing. A new generation of preventive analytic technologies is emerging in the APM (Application Performance Management) industry, unlocking untapped value in this $2+ billion market that is growing $300 million per year. These technologies are only now achievable via revolutionary machine learning technologies, advanced quantitative analytics, and the natural evolution of BI … as BI-like analytics are bleeding into the APM world.
I distinctly remember marveling that a bankrupt Chinese company dragging around at least $400 million in debt owed to Chinese banks was able to afford lawyers to sue Apple when it lodged a short-lived suit against Apple in America. Well, according to a Google translation of a Chinese-language story in Sina Tech, Grandall, the Chinese law firm, was fronting Proview Shenzhen’s expenses and now it’s suing Proview in China for a piece of the $60 million Apple agreed to pay to get clear ownership of the iPad trademark in China that Proview contested. Apple, of course, claimed it had already paid for the privilege.
Dear, dear, dear, dear. Five days before the great Apple patent trial starts Monday – a trial Apple has got to win – Magistrate Judge Paul Grewal sanctioned Apple’s opponent Samsung for destroying evidence. It seems Samsung didn’t preserve e-mail and meeting notes ahead of the litigation like it was supposed to. The rules say when you’re “reasonably” sure you’re gonna get sued you have to keep all the relevant evidence for discovery. Samsung’s been down this road before so it knows the rules. And it was probably pretty sure what would happen after Steve Jobs and Tim Cook appeared on its doorstep in August of 2010 complaining about infringement.
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Ahead of the great Apple v Samsung Android trial that starts Monday in California Apple filed a damages claim with the court seeking $2.525 billion from Samsung. Good ole reliable FOSS Patents got to it first and isolated the key passage. It reads: “Samsung adopted as its number one goal to [redacted]’ in the smartphone and tablet markets, and it chose to compete by copying Apple. Samsung’s infringing sales have enabled Samsung to overtake Apple as the largest manufacturer of smartphones in the world. Samsung has reaped billions of dollars in profits and caused Apple to lose hundreds of millions of dollars through its violation of Apple’s intellectual property. Apple conservatively estimates that as of March 31, 2012, Samsung has been unjustly enriched by about [redacted; presumably $2 billion] and has additionally cost Apple about $500 million in lost profits. Apple also conservatively estimates that it is entitled to over $25 million in reasonable royalty damages on the proportionately small set of remaining sales for which it cannot obtain an award of Samsung’s profits or Apple’s own lost profits, for a combined total of $2.525 billion.”
Apple missed by Wall Street standards when it reported its Q3 numbers Tuesday and its stock tanked, dropping more than 5% after-hours, down roughly 31 bucks to $570 at best. It sold only 26 million iPhones, down 26% sequentially. Wall Street expected maybe 28 million or better. On the other hand, it sold 17 million iPads, which was better than the 15 milion-16 million the Street figured. It also got off 6.8 million iPods and four million Macs, up 2% and better than negative 1% IDC is giving the industry. At $35 billion revenues, although up 23%, it fell short of the $37.2 billion analysts expected. Ditto earnings. They were up 21% to $9.32 a share, but Wall Street wanted $10.35. Of course Apple had only guided to $8.68 on $35 billion so maybe it’s Wall Street that ought to get a grip on its inflated expectations ahead of a big product transition. The Wall Street Journal remembers that the same thing happened when Apple reported its September quarter ahead of the arrival of the iPhone 4S last year.
Google’s officially out of stock of 16-gigabyte Nexus 7 tablets. And, according to sources speaking to The Guardian’s Charles Arthur, it’s because the company “seriously underestimated” demand for the seven-inch device. “The Guardian understands that Google’s planners had thought that buyers on the Google Play store, more than from physical or online retailers, would be [...]
A few days ago a number of tweets caught my eye. Both appeared fortuitously within a minute of each other. Separately they were powerful in their own rights but together they made me think and reaffirmed my thoughts about Mobile UX/Design and how Mobile Apps should relate to the Enterprise. The first pointed to an article http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2012/07/mobile-is-where-the-growth-is.html Where basically it states that... "Mobile does not reward feature richness. It rewards small, application specific, feature light services." An interesting thought with respect to application scope and totally correct. In your company the MIC or Mobile Innovation Council should be concentrating on getting correct first time their ADS or Application Definition Statement, which sums up the core reason for the creation of the Mobile App.
Reaching customers and employees with cloud applications when they are located in emerging markets (such as Russia, Indonesia, Brazil and China) poses a major challenge. This is especially true for China, which has not only the largest Internet user base (twice that of the US and growing fast) but a lack of modern Internet infrastructure as well as licensing and regulatory hurdles, including the “Great Firewall.” In his session at the 11th International Cloud Expo, Jerry Miller, Vice President of Technology at CDNetworks, will discuss the various challenges to serving this market and how a CDN (Content Delivery Network) can help you not only deliver a fast download of your website and web applications even in China, but can also help you manage content and regulatory issues. You will hear how a major European-based financial trading platform saved millions of dollars a day in lost revenue by eliminating dropped trades caused by latency in China. You will also hear how a major UK-based luxury retail platform is now reaching China’s growing luxury market with fast page loads and ecommerce transactions. In addition, hear how Silicon Valley based SEMI is serving 26 websites in China and other emerging markets with 100% uptime and superfast load times. This session will be full of benchmarks, case studies, examples, and charts.
OpenXava is a framework for Rapid Development of Web Applications for iPad, well-suited for business and database oriented applications. OpenXava allows you develop applications just by writing simple domain classes with Java or Groovy. The user interface is generated automatically in runtime, without code generation.
Oh, the ignominy of it. A UK judge has told Apple it must take out ads in the Financial Times, the Daily Mail, Guardian Mobile magazine and T3 and say on its UK home page for six months that Samsung didn’t copy the iPad’s design. On July 9 the court found that Samsung’s Galaxy tablets don’t infringe Apple’s registered designs because they’re “not as cool” as Apple’s. Apple is expected to appeal. “Should Apple continue to make excessive legal claims based on such generic designs, innovation in the industry could be harmed and consumer choice unduly limited,” Samsung said in a statement.
OpenXava is a framework for Rapid Java Web Development, well-suited for business and database oriented applications. OpenXava allows you develop applications just by writing simple domain classes with Java or Groovy. The user interface is generated automatically in runtime, without code generation. This feature has been demanded for long time by the community. Until now only single table per class hierarchy mapping strategy was supported, that is the case where all classes hierarchy is stored in the same table. Since OpenXava 4.5 you can also use joined and table per class mapping strategies.
A British judge ruled Wednesday that Apple must run ads in U.K. newspapers saying that Samsung Electronics didn’t copy designs for its iPad – the jurisprudential equivalent of ordering a pupil to write “I will not engage in spurious patent battles” on the blackboard 10,000 times.
What’s an app? It depends who you ask. If you asked me a few weeks ago, I’d say that Tiggzi app builder creates apps. You build an HTML5/jQuery Mobile app UI, plus you can export the app as PhoneGap. That’s an app. Then there is Parse, an excellent mobile backend service company (we got a [...]
The BYOD trend requires sweeping changes to the way devices are used in the workplace. Find out how to confront and manage those changes, provide a better user experience, and ensure security. Gartner Hosted BYOD VIDEO: Mobility and the Social Enterprise Technical Design Workshop VIDEO: Bring Your Own Device Without Compromise Design Guide: BYOD – Device Freedom Without Compromising the IT Network
An ex TV weatherman built a weather graphics business only to find his server farm got mighty hot in the summer. What's an entrepreneur to do? Build a blade server business that uses conventional components that are swappable for greater reliability and lower operating cost. Open platforms have always meant more cost savings and greater flexibility in business computing. In the ‘80s, proprietary desktops gave way to clones, and the ‘90s saw proprietary servers and workstations dissolve into off-the-shelf x86 architectures. Today, a handful of "big iron" vendors own the blade market with their proprietary enclosures and restrictive designs...and history is about to repeat itself.
World IPv6 Launch: June 6: The Internet Society, an international nonprofit organization that advises on Web standards, policy and education, has selected June 6, 2012, as the World IPv6 launch day. This date will mark the beginning of a new phase in the life of the Internet, when IPv6 begins to become a normal part of the Internet experience for everyone—taking over from IPv4. Chrome overtakes IE on weekends: Over the past three weeks, Google Chrome has beaten out Internet Explorer as the No. 1 browser in the world — but only on Sundays. Monday through Saturday, IE has remained the browser with the highest worldwide market share, although its lead is slipping.
It's finally summer, time to slow down, to plan, to learn and to discover your inner data geek! Summer is also the time for blue skies and clouds. And although you may know everything you want to know about the white fluffy clouds that dot the sky, do you know enough about getting your data into and out of Salesforce.com – the most widely adopted cloud-based CRM? Cloud applications like Salesforce.com have fundamentally changed how we think about and work with our customer data. However, these systems have also significantly complicated getting real-time reports that we rely on to make sound business decisions. What is really needed is a solution that enables real-time reporting across Salesforce and your SQL-based on-premise systems.