Month: November 2012
Skype Updated – Optimized for Tablets, 100Mn Downloads on Android Challenging Tencent, Sina
Skype releasing version 3.0 into the Android market and 4.2.1 for the iOS has farther reaching significance and implications than most of the industry bloggers and media would believe. The longer-term strategic implications appear sound and are gathering momentum. We tested the new version of Skype for Android against older…
An Insight into Palo Alto Single Pass Architecture for NGFW for Controlled Corporate Network Access
Palo Alto Networks is focused on the $7.4bn network security market. Specifically, Palo Alto is a vendor of NGFWs – Next Generation Firewalls a part of Unified Threat Management (UTM) devices, the fastest growth segment of the network security market. Palo Alto is a startup in the Enterprise Security space…
Apple Continues to Acquire IPR Portfolio – Taking Patent Wars Very Seriously
Apple Inc embroiled in patent wars with Samsung has taken the IPR aspect very seriously and has licensed close to 1,024 patents from Rockstar Consortium, which bought over 4,000 from Nortel for $4.5Bn in 2011. Apple is the major contributor to Rockstar Consortium (also includes Microsoft, Sony, Ericsson and RIMM),…
Internet search volume down 2.5% y/y in October – Transition to Mobile
comScore Data for the United States shows search volume down 2.5% y/y. You can view the monthly Search Query Volume data for the last 12 months for Google, Yahoo, Bing, Ask and Aol. For Google, Explicit search growth improved down 1% y/y from down 2% y/y in September. October is…
Microsoft Surface Tablet for Office Productivity – Thumbs Up
A reader of our Blog had a chance to get Hands on with Microsoft Surface Tablet mostly as a corporate Productivity User and here are his thoughts. The author has himself worked in Consumer Devices as an Embedded Systems Engineer and extends credit for designing a tablet that may have…
Aggressive promotions coming off as new Operators get Prudent – Mobile Tariffs to Rise
Aggressive promotions from incumbent wireless operators like Airtel has come off in recent months with SIM cards no longer being sold below marked price and the payouts to retailers being brought down significantly. To illustrate with an example on Mobile Plans, in May 2012, a Airtel SIM card being sold…
What is the State of Facebook Advertising on Mobile Vs Desktop; Tools & Analytics for Advertisers
Social Networking Giant Facebook has emerged as the largest threat to Online Advertising monster, Google. Interacting with Ad Agencies we’d like to present the current state of Facebook Advertisement Platform which offers inventory for Mobile, Tablet, Desktop users and also the state of Tools and Analytics Facebook offers to Advertisers….
Idea 1299 & Idea 1599 Virtually Unlimited Calling Plans with FREE 3G Data Usage
As you may have observed, we normally do not write about Voice / Data Plans here unless it is disruptive and needs a special mention to readers to enlighten the trends within the Indian Telecom Industry. Pure Wireless Telecom Operator Idea Cellular has a dedicated Analytics team which runs various…