Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Steve Pavlovsky, Product General Manager, Control and Communications Systems Business, GE Intelligent Platforms (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: What else is interesting in terms of what’s happening in your industry? This is an old industry that innovates very slowly. Steven Pavlovsky: Yes, that is absolutely true in terms of where our industry has been. We’re in the process of launching a new control platform that has both control aspects and traditional

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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Brent Lang, President of Vocera (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Essentially it acts as an intelligent phone that is optimized for a hospital’s work flow and the people in the hospital, right? Brent Lang: Yes. You could think of it as a wearable, hands-free phone that’s controlled by using voice commands and that has an intelligent workflow engine that directs the call to

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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Brent Lang, President of Vocera (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: You did about $25 million in the second quarter of 2012? Brent Lang: That’s correct. For the quarter, we did just shy of $25 million. SM: You said a nurse can say the name of the person he’s trying to reach into his Vocera badge. Could you flesh that out a bit? Who

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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: David Aronchick, Co-Founder and CEO of Hark (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: If I were an app developer, and I wanted to mash up some Dark Knight content and use Dark Knight characters to build an app or game, today, I have to go through a proper licensing process, correct? David Aronchick: Yes. There are variety of things you would need to do. The unfortunate

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Catching Up On Readings: Why Do Developers Turn to Apple First?

Today’s Guardian (UK) investigates why developers prefer to write first for Apple, not Android. Developers, please weigh in with your thoughts on the article. Do you think this trend will change? Click on the full paragraph link for all of this week’s posts.

Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Chris Ruff, CEO of UIEvolution (Part 3)

SM: OK. Give me some examples of things that can be automated. Let’s say even 40%, 50%, 60% who knows, whatever is needed that can be automated, what is that piece? CR: A lot of it has to do with how you manage the data that’s being transported to the device, whether it’s rich media

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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Alex Dayon, Executive VP of Applications, Salesforce.com (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Right now you’re talking to thousands of entrepreneurs. You have the ears of thousands of entrepreneurs. Many of them are working on cloud startups and social startups, things that are very much in your ecosystem. What guidance can you provide for them in terms of what you are looking for? Where do you

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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Bill Seibel, Founder and CEO of Mobiquity (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: Are there any other trends or broad industry directions you would highlight? Bill Seibel: What we have to do is make sure we understand and deliver on any device that we have. Half of the companies in the world might make an argument that iPhones are dominating and are going to continue to

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