• Is Google App Engine Silently Gaining Traction?

     

    When Google released its PaaS offering called Google App Engine, it attracted Web 2.0 developers in big numbers but it didn’t gain much traction like Amazon Web Services or Microsoft platform. In fact, in May 2010, Network World had an article quoting …

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  • Cisco Planning To Acquire Skype To Target Consumer Market?

     

    Mike Arrington has made a post talking about a possible acquisition of Skype by Cisco. According to him there are talks to acquire Skype at a price near $5 Billion before they complete the IPO process.Cisco has made an offer to acquire Skype before the…

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  • Google Push Notification For iPhone: Does It Matter For iPhone Users?

     

    Google yesterday updated its Google Mobile app by adding push notifications for Gmail and Google Calendar. The idea is to notify the users about new mail or calendar events through push notifications on top of Google Mobile app and when the users …

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  • Acquia Uses Gluster Storage For Drupal Gardens SaaS Offering

     

    Acquia, the company behind commercial Drupal offerings, has selected Gluster open source storage platform for their hosting needs. Gluster storage platform offers an easy way to manage data on commodity servers within a single namespace. This is the ki…

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  • Will Google’s Net Neutrality Stance Affect Its Brand?

     

    Yesterday, Google and Verizon announced a joint policy proposal to regulate the internet. In short, they have called on FCC to assume control over the internet and regulate it to keep it “open”. Even though I am supportive of any proposal to keep the …

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  • Tapping The Cloud To Tackle Oil Spill

     

    As the workforce becomes more distributed, organizations are faced with daunting tasks with respect to workforce management, security, etc.. Location services and SaaS come very handy for organizational managers to manage their mobile workforce in a ce…

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  • Are We Nearing The End Of Google Wave?

     

    Techcrunch has a post talking about the possible demise of Google Wave, its much hyped real time collaboration platform. Even though it is not completely unexpected, it is a bit of a shocker for me personally.Maybe it was just ahead of its time. Or ma…

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  • Innovating Around Restrictions – PlayOn Story

     

    When talking about the capping of data for iPad by AT&T, I argued that such restrictions presents opportunity for others in the market to innovateWhen AT&T unexpectedly announced its plan to kill the unlimited plan with a spin on the savings …

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  • Amazon Says Stories About Eli Lilly Are False

     

    Amazon has publicly debunked the story about Eli Lilly moving out of Amazon Web Services. In a Twitter message posted by Amazon CTO Werner Vogels, Amazon categorically state that Eli Lilly is still their customer.For those following this anonymous sou…

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  • To Use Cloud Or Not?

     

    Last week when Twitter announced that they are building a datacenter I wrote a post wondering why companies move out of the cloud as they grow big. Even though I don’t have many examples of startups building their own datacenters after growing big, ma…

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