According to Andy Rubin of Google, there are 850,000 activations of Android devices, whether mobile or tablets a day. Rubin explains the motivations behind the acquisition of Motorola: "The advantage of having a firm that makes it able to dial to where we think the future will, but it won't make anything exclusive that it may damage the rest... We believe in an open ecosystem."
As it happens, Motorola released the Android 3.0 Xoom tablet. Samsung offers version 4.0, which unifies tablets and phones. "Without balance you can not make an ecosystem. " Within this logic fits the fact that many manufacturers such as Motorola's own Motoblur, Samsung or HTC Sense Hub, provide their own equipment and adaptable interface. "I know it's controversial, some may prefer the pure system, as it comes, it also helps handled who are not familiar or want to customize. Anything to give consumers more choices seems right. "
Rubin has revealed that in 2011 12 million tablets with Google software were sold, excluding the Amazon Kindle Fire. They just doubled those sold in 2010.
First came Google Music, Google Books and later, YouTube was acquired... Just after they released Android. Now they need to combine both worlds ... "We will add more content, but for now we can not advertise. We have to improve to do business. "
Android still has some issues to solve: such as hiw you can't have good Facebook application in tablets? All board members have agreed that what is seen in the 10 inch version does not seem very consistent with the social network. "We will try to mark a path as the application of Gmail or YouTube, which detects the device and adapts, but it is a question for us, but for Facebook it does offer a version for iPhone and one for iPad" . A few hours later the head of Facebook's Technology has announced its commitment to a web-based, open mobile HTML5.
Rubin says high-end phones today will become the minimum within a window of 18 months. "The important thing is to be brave enough to set trends." When he arrived at Google, the firms invested in Android because, he says, Google knew that their business model, with free services and advertising revenue, was the only one who could succeed with their vision completely. It is unfair to think that all innovation comes from a company. The evolution is collective. "
Neither ruled out at some point a launch of a Google e-reader, but it does not seem too logical: "There is already an application in our Kindle Store."
The future, according to Rubin, is the era postPC. Once you have set in tablets and phones the next frontier is in the home, when you come home and leave the keys, mobile and work. "I feel that if we put Android at home, this will not work. We must be imaginative to join more traveling companions. If not, others will come up with another ecosystem. It is an industry that we want to lead by giving intelligence to home," he argues. It fits with the line of home automation smart labels, just a day before Sony had introduced its new handsets.
Source: El Pais
Louis Rhéaume
Infocom Intelligence
louis@infocomintelligence.com
Twitter: @InfocomAnalysis
A blog on the convergence of info-communications industries: communications, computing, electronics, entertainment, publications and education. Strategic, technological and financial analysis. English and French blog. Cette chronique traite de l’évolution des industries de l’information et des communications et couvre des aspects stratégiques, technologiques et financiers, comme l’économie du savoir et de l’innovation. L’auteur est Associé principal de Infocom Intelligence.
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Monday, March 05, 2012
Friday, February 17, 2012
14 best Google Chrome Apps
Here are the 15 best Google Chrome Apps according to BI Intelligence.
1-PadMapper makes apartment hunting tons easier.
PadMapper leverages Google Maps, Craigslist, Apartments.com, and Move.com to make for an immersive apartment hunting application
2-Springpad keeps track of everything you need to remember.
Springpad keeps track of notes, pictures, bookmarks, recipes, to-do lists, and more, and it syncs across all of your computers and mobile devices.
3-Offline Gmail gives you the flexibility of Gmail, even without an internet connection.
Gmail is the email service and email client of choice for millions of people, yet if you're left without an internet connection, it's easy to feel helpless.
The Offline Gmail app for Chrome downloads your mail to a local folder on your computer and enables you to send and compose emails without an internet connection. Pretty convenient.
4-AdBlock is one of the most popular Chrome apps ever
AdBlock does one thing, and it does it well: remove banner ads from the websites you visit, including popular destinations like Facebook and YouTube.
5-Cryptocat is a private chat room for you and your friends
Cryptocat is an ultra secure encrypted chat room for you and friends. In order to join your conversation, friends need a unique code identifier.
Cryptocat even works on your Android or iPhone.
6-Here's the best way to read on your computer.
Kindle Cloud Reader is your gateway to reading all of your Kindle books on your computer.
The user interface is great, and the app even saves the entirety of the current book you're reading for offline reading.
7-Access great 60 Minutes videos with this app.
The 60 Minutes app includes all the segments you see on TV, plus interviews and behind-the-scenes commentaries.
8-Aviary is like Photoshop, but free and in your browser window.
Aviary can make Chrome a little bit sluggish, but considering it's a free Photoshop alternative that lives inside your browser, it's a must-try. Most of the photo manipulation tools you've come to know and love are all here.
9-Scratchpad stores little notes and pictures you want to remember.
Scratchpad hangs out in the bottom corner of Chrome and stores every little thing you need to remember, like pictures, to-do's, and more. It syncs with Google Docs.
10-SlideRocket is like PowerPoint but in your browser.
Like Aviary, SlideRocket takes a desktop staple application and sticks it in your browser, proving that you don't need a powerful computer to run productivity apps. SlideRocket is a new take on slideshow creation. It's a modern version of PowerPoint, and even lets you export slideshows for easy viewing on mobile devices.
11-Take a look inside your body with this app.
BioDigital Human takes advantage of new WebGL 3D technology to let you peer inside the human body and learn about what you're made of.
12-The New York Times even has a Chrome app.
The New York Times' Chrome app turns browsing your favorite newspaper into a fresh and new experience. There are even keyboard shortcuts to help navigate pages.
13-Write Space gives you a distraction-free writing environment.
Looking for a distraction-free writing environment on your computer? Write Space is a full-fledged text editor that requires no internet connection and saves your document every time you type a new letter. It saves the document to your computer, so you don't have to worry about losing it somewhere in the cloud.
14-Weather Underground's Chrome app is both useful and handsome.
Weather Underground's Chrome app combines some of the most accurate forecasts with beautiful high definition (if not necessarily relevant) images from around the world
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/best-google-chrome-apps-2012-1?nr_email_referer=1&utm_source=Triggermail&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Tools%20Select&utm_campaign=Tools%20Select%202012-01-05#weather-undergrounds-chrome-app-is-both-useful-and-handsome-17#ixzz1mgeOWiI7
Louis Rhéaume
Infocom Intelligence
louis@infocomintelligence.com
Twitter: @InfocomAnalysis
1-PadMapper makes apartment hunting tons easier.
PadMapper leverages Google Maps, Craigslist, Apartments.com, and Move.com to make for an immersive apartment hunting application
2-Springpad keeps track of everything you need to remember.
Springpad keeps track of notes, pictures, bookmarks, recipes, to-do lists, and more, and it syncs across all of your computers and mobile devices.
3-Offline Gmail gives you the flexibility of Gmail, even without an internet connection.
Gmail is the email service and email client of choice for millions of people, yet if you're left without an internet connection, it's easy to feel helpless.
The Offline Gmail app for Chrome downloads your mail to a local folder on your computer and enables you to send and compose emails without an internet connection. Pretty convenient.
4-AdBlock is one of the most popular Chrome apps ever
AdBlock does one thing, and it does it well: remove banner ads from the websites you visit, including popular destinations like Facebook and YouTube.
5-Cryptocat is a private chat room for you and your friends
Cryptocat is an ultra secure encrypted chat room for you and friends. In order to join your conversation, friends need a unique code identifier.
Cryptocat even works on your Android or iPhone.
6-Here's the best way to read on your computer.
Kindle Cloud Reader is your gateway to reading all of your Kindle books on your computer.
The user interface is great, and the app even saves the entirety of the current book you're reading for offline reading.
7-Access great 60 Minutes videos with this app.
The 60 Minutes app includes all the segments you see on TV, plus interviews and behind-the-scenes commentaries.
8-Aviary is like Photoshop, but free and in your browser window.
Aviary can make Chrome a little bit sluggish, but considering it's a free Photoshop alternative that lives inside your browser, it's a must-try. Most of the photo manipulation tools you've come to know and love are all here.
9-Scratchpad stores little notes and pictures you want to remember.
Scratchpad hangs out in the bottom corner of Chrome and stores every little thing you need to remember, like pictures, to-do's, and more. It syncs with Google Docs.
10-SlideRocket is like PowerPoint but in your browser.
Like Aviary, SlideRocket takes a desktop staple application and sticks it in your browser, proving that you don't need a powerful computer to run productivity apps. SlideRocket is a new take on slideshow creation. It's a modern version of PowerPoint, and even lets you export slideshows for easy viewing on mobile devices.
11-Take a look inside your body with this app.
BioDigital Human takes advantage of new WebGL 3D technology to let you peer inside the human body and learn about what you're made of.
12-The New York Times even has a Chrome app.
The New York Times' Chrome app turns browsing your favorite newspaper into a fresh and new experience. There are even keyboard shortcuts to help navigate pages.
13-Write Space gives you a distraction-free writing environment.
Looking for a distraction-free writing environment on your computer? Write Space is a full-fledged text editor that requires no internet connection and saves your document every time you type a new letter. It saves the document to your computer, so you don't have to worry about losing it somewhere in the cloud.
14-Weather Underground's Chrome app is both useful and handsome.
Weather Underground's Chrome app combines some of the most accurate forecasts with beautiful high definition (if not necessarily relevant) images from around the world
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/best-google-chrome-apps-2012-1?nr_email_referer=1&utm_source=Triggermail&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Tools%20Select&utm_campaign=Tools%20Select%202012-01-05#weather-undergrounds-chrome-app-is-both-useful-and-handsome-17#ixzz1mgeOWiI7
Louis Rhéaume
Infocom Intelligence
louis@infocomintelligence.com
Twitter: @InfocomAnalysis
Tuesday, December 27, 2011
For Google's Chairman: "Within 10 years, computers will be 30 times faster…which will allow us to do amazing things."
According to Google's Chairman Eric Schmidt: "Within 10 years, computers will be 30 times faster…which will allow us to do amazing things."
Mobile is a world driver of growth and prosperity. Schmidt highlighted the captive market for these changes by pointing out that, in some countries, people are placing greater priority on having a mobile phone than getting running water at home.
Speaking about the future, Schmidt is optimistic that computers and artificial intelligence will not take over the world. Instead he believes that a complimentary scenario will emerge:
Over five to ten years, human and computers will be distinguishable. Humans will still be very good at what we do — intuition, fun, entertainment, innovation — and computers will get extraordinarily good about what they are very good at, such as needle in a haystack problems and infinite memories.
Schmidt believes that the value of mobile devices is the networks of information that they are connected to, rather than the device itself:
"I don’t think of this as my phone, it is my personal super computer that can answer any question that I care about in life."
Source:
http://www.c-span.org/Events/Google-CEO-Discusses-Internet-and-Censorship/10737426642-1/
Louis Rhéaume
Infocom Intelligence
louis@infocomintelligence.com
Twitter: @InfocomAnalysis
Mobile is a world driver of growth and prosperity. Schmidt highlighted the captive market for these changes by pointing out that, in some countries, people are placing greater priority on having a mobile phone than getting running water at home.
Speaking about the future, Schmidt is optimistic that computers and artificial intelligence will not take over the world. Instead he believes that a complimentary scenario will emerge:
Over five to ten years, human and computers will be distinguishable. Humans will still be very good at what we do — intuition, fun, entertainment, innovation — and computers will get extraordinarily good about what they are very good at, such as needle in a haystack problems and infinite memories.
Schmidt believes that the value of mobile devices is the networks of information that they are connected to, rather than the device itself:
"I don’t think of this as my phone, it is my personal super computer that can answer any question that I care about in life."
Source:
http://www.c-span.org/Events/Google-CEO-Discusses-Internet-and-Censorship/10737426642-1/
Louis Rhéaume
Infocom Intelligence
louis@infocomintelligence.com
Twitter: @InfocomAnalysis
Saturday, December 24, 2011
Google + en vie et en croissance!
Plusieurs blogues technologiques ont prédit la mort du réseau social Google +. Or, celui-ci a maintenant plus de 150 millions d'abonnés et connait une forte croissance. C'est le troisième réseau social le plus important après Facebook et le chinois Waebo.
Google+ serait avant tout un succès international, puisque seulement 10% de ses utilisateurs seraient américains. Les efforts de Google pour gagner de nouveaux abonnés semblent donc payer. Le réseau social est désormais compatible sur l'ensemble des plateformes mobiles et dispose même d'une application dédiée sur l'App Store et l'Android Market. Il est aussi totalement intégré dans la majorité des services Google les plus populaires (Gmail, YouTube, Picasa, etc.).
Louis Rhéaume
Infocom Intelligence
louis@infocomintelligence.com
Twitter: @InfocomAnalysis
Google+ serait avant tout un succès international, puisque seulement 10% de ses utilisateurs seraient américains. Les efforts de Google pour gagner de nouveaux abonnés semblent donc payer. Le réseau social est désormais compatible sur l'ensemble des plateformes mobiles et dispose même d'une application dédiée sur l'App Store et l'Android Market. Il est aussi totalement intégré dans la majorité des services Google les plus populaires (Gmail, YouTube, Picasa, etc.).
Louis Rhéaume
Infocom Intelligence
louis@infocomintelligence.com
Twitter: @InfocomAnalysis
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
An infographic of Google ads
Here is an infographic of Google ads.
For a better look, see original graph at
http://mashable.com/2011/12/19/online-advertising-2011-google/
Louis Rhéaume
Infocom Intelligence
louis@infocomintelligence.com
Twitter: @InfocomAnalysis
For a better look, see original graph at
http://mashable.com/2011/12/19/online-advertising-2011-google/
Louis Rhéaume
Infocom Intelligence
louis@infocomintelligence.com
Twitter: @InfocomAnalysis
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Some key elements for innovation management value creation: the case of Yahoo versus Google
In a recent interview, a former Yahoo VP argues that the key element for efficient innovation management in order to create value is to have an organization enabling small accountable and empowered team that can take risks. Salim Ismail is a successful angel investor and entrepreneur. He has operated seven early-stage companies and is a frequent speaker on internet technologies, private equity and entrepreneurship. From February 2007 to February 2008, Salim was a Vice President at Yahoo and the Head of Brickhouse, Yahoo's internal incubator where game-changing ideas were brought in, built and launched. He is now working for Singularity University.
Yahoo became a matrix company under Terry Siemel, with several layers of organizational approval. The firm is now developed under the traditional verticals administrative functions. Google on the other hand always promoted risks taking and has less organizational layers of approvals, even less under the new CEO Larry Page. Free time is giving to engineer to work on the innovation project of their choice. Google encourage risk taking. Many internal resources of Yahoo made spin-off outside the firm like Zynga. Like Xerox which created many innovations like the mouse, the operating systems, Ethernet but did not develop it, outside spin-offs of Xerox created more value than Xerox itself: Apple, 3Com, Adobe Systems; history is repeated with the case of Yahoo.
According to Ismail, in the fast moving area of high tech, it is difficult to play the game of catching-up on trends and competition. Few players won that game. Apple totally reinvented the company, but they have relied on the Blue Ocean Strategy.
For more information on the ideas of Salim Ismail, see the interview on TechCrunch.
http://techcrunch.com/2011/10/11/keen-on-how-yahoo-screwed-up-and-lessons-for-other-silicon-valley-giants-tctv/#ooid=locnJ1Mjq5H8b_xXxgp9bym7HAdEvXrv
Louis Rhéaume
Infocom Intelligence
louis@infocomintelligence.com
Yahoo became a matrix company under Terry Siemel, with several layers of organizational approval. The firm is now developed under the traditional verticals administrative functions. Google on the other hand always promoted risks taking and has less organizational layers of approvals, even less under the new CEO Larry Page. Free time is giving to engineer to work on the innovation project of their choice. Google encourage risk taking. Many internal resources of Yahoo made spin-off outside the firm like Zynga. Like Xerox which created many innovations like the mouse, the operating systems, Ethernet but did not develop it, outside spin-offs of Xerox created more value than Xerox itself: Apple, 3Com, Adobe Systems; history is repeated with the case of Yahoo.
According to Ismail, in the fast moving area of high tech, it is difficult to play the game of catching-up on trends and competition. Few players won that game. Apple totally reinvented the company, but they have relied on the Blue Ocean Strategy.
For more information on the ideas of Salim Ismail, see the interview on TechCrunch.
http://techcrunch.com/2011/10/11/keen-on-how-yahoo-screwed-up-and-lessons-for-other-silicon-valley-giants-tctv/#ooid=locnJ1Mjq5H8b_xXxgp9bym7HAdEvXrv
Louis Rhéaume
Infocom Intelligence
louis@infocomintelligence.com
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