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: 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 Cloud Computing: Ari Zilka, CTO of Terracotta (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: OK, as a follow-on question – this is a good, visceral example to illustrate what you’re talking about. Why has Twitter not been able to monetize along those same lines? It’s similar to Facebook, but Twitter has not succeeded in leveraging the big data/real time element of their infrastructure, why not? Ari Zilka:

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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

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iPhone Beneficiaries Qualcomm And Broadcom

Chipmakers Broadcom (NASDAQ:BRCM) and Qualcomm (NASDAQ:QCOM) recently reported their quarterly results. While Broadcom posted record sales on strong demand for electronic devices such as the iPad and iPhone, Qualcomm benefitted from the global growth in 3G. Let’s take a closer look.

Strong iPhone Sales In Asia Lead Apple Up and Away

Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) reported another strong quarter this week driven by a whopping 131% increase in iPhone shipments and a 33% increase in Mac sales. Apple started shipping its latest innovation, the iPad, on April 3 after the close of its first quarter and is already expected to have sold more than 500,000 units of the

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