Can ARM beat or meet Intel at its server game?

November 5, 2012 0 Comments

From last few years the dominance of tablets is driving innovation and changing computing landscape. If ever there is an interesting “war of worlds” in the technology space apart from the smartphone wars, it is the Intel vs ARM microprocessor wars. ARM architecture based processors made “Post-PC” era possible and profitable. Over the weekend VentureBeat [...]

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Is Samsung the next Apple?

November 3, 2012 0 Comments

Samsung Electronics announced its third quarter results and profits are up by 91% fueled by its most popular Android based smartphone Galaxy S III. In a period when there were not many competitive new smartphones either Android or iOS based, Samsung benefited the most.  Can Samsung sustain its lead and profits in Android world? Lets [...]

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Google Chrombooks for Everyone?

October 30, 2012 0 Comments

Google in partnership with Samsung announced the new chromebook priced at $249 and New York Times correctly identifies the shift in Google’s marketing strategy.  A clear shift in Google’s strategy to target the average consumers, who are not really cloud friendly.  A closer look at the specifications reveals that it is a phone of laptop [...]

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iPad mini pricing review

October 24, 2012 0 Comments

Apple announced iPad min at special San Jose event and pried the basic 16GB version at $329. Is it too high? too low ? or just right? Larry Dignan at ZDNet  Apple’s move to price the iPad mini at a starting price of $329 may preserve profit margins, but ultimately may cede some of the tablet [...]

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Can Google survive the shift to Mobile Advertising?

October 22, 2012 0 Comments

Last Thursday Google announced its 2012 Q3 earnings and reported consolidated revenues of $14.10B for the quarter ended September 30, 2012, an increase of 45%  compared to the third quarter of 2011. But that’s not the news everyone is talking about. Even if we were to ignore the early release of the earnings by human [...]

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Can Microsoft Surface RT win Business and Student segments ?

October 18, 2012 0 Comments

Microsoft started taking pre orders for Surface RT and already ran out of the initial stock. Microsoft priced Surface RT 32GB version at $499 in much different way than I imagined and suggested.  Microsoft Surface RT supports  Office Home & Student version, low-end version of the popular office suite, Windows Live mail, Skydrive and no outlook. [...]

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Google Data Center Video

October 17, 2012 0 Comments

  Google gave unprecedented access to CBS Michelle Miller to its high security North Carolina data center.  For more on Google data centers read here  

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What should Nokia do ?

October 14, 2012 0 Comments

At ITG digial author Mr. Erich wrote a great article investigating various possible root causes for Nokia’s fall and ruled out some of the most common misconceptions of bloggers. I wanted to take it a little further down that thought process and pay more close attention to current situation and what Nokia can do about [...]

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Microsoft Surface Strategy: The Game Theory way

October 11, 2012 5 Comments

With Microsoft confirming  the shipping  date for Surface RT,  technology journalists started predicting the price of the device  and the possible threat to iPad empire. For example, bloggers at computerworld have some thought-provoking discussions about the pricing strategies based on the manufacturing cost and on ways to neutralize the iPad.  But in my opinion there [...]

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Christmas Retail Wars: Walmart vs Amazon

October 10, 2012 0 Comments

Today at Wal-Mart 19th annual analyst meeting, Wal-Mart outlined its e-commerce strategy.  And to prepare itself for the coming holiday sales war with online retail giant Amazon, Wal-Mart started testing “same day delivery” service in test markets across the country.  The service costs $10 per order irrespective of the number of items. The billion dollar question [...]

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