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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Bill Seibel, Founder and CEO of Mobiquity (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: Interesting. Let’s talk about another example. Bill Seibel: For the New York Post, we built the Android version and the Kindle Fire version of the publication, which is mostly around the device, but we also architected and built the subscription management on the back end. We do all the management of subscriptions and
Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Tasso Roumeliotis, CEO of Safely (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: I think I agree with you. You are saying that Groupon is the most significant. Groupon – and the others in that category, such as LivingSocial – is the more significant innovation in location-based coupon services in the recent generation. Tasso Roumeliotis: Yes, exactly. SM: What do you see as the impact of
Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Lee Congdon, CIO of Red Hat (Part 7)
Sramana Mitra: In my research so far, I have not seen a lot of great offerings in the social media analytics space that do a good job of taking a lot of data. I agree with you that yes, the relationships can easily be struck with the firms that are producing data – the Twitters
Outsourcing: Sanjay Dhawan, CEO of Symphony Services (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: You can set up a 1,000-person operation in a certain region, especially if you run your own university. I don’t think that should be a problem. San Dhawan: Right. SM: There are two other topics I want to explore. One is, how do you go from a $200 million to a $1 billion company,
Smartphone Ecosystem (Part 8): Operating Systems, Part 2
By guest author Nalini Kumar Mappala The year 2009 has been the coming-out party for Android. There has been a lot of innovation as well as regular updates with exciting features. The scene at Microsoft, on the other hand, has been lackluster. Updates to Windows Mobile were incremental and more service updates than feature upgrades.
Wireless Carrier Roundup
There has been a buzz of activity in the wireless market with several Android phones being launched, including the Droid by Motorola on Verizon. Since the launch of the iPhone, AT&T has been increasing its subscriber base and Verizon has managed to keep up with the competition. However, Sprint and T-Mobile are finding it hard
The Apps Store Wars
By Guest Author Saad Fazil Apple’s iPhone has triggered “apps store” wars (with the iPhone as the clear leader so far), with almost every major mobile platform vendor now launching its version of an apps store. It’s becoming increasingly difficult to even remember their names: Google’s “apps store” is called Android Marketplace, RIM’s is called
