M Bukovic's List: Google - Android

• Google grows revenue and profit in Q4

• ric Schmidt wants Google in your office
• he key breakthrough was understanding the browser can be both enterprise- and consumer-capable
• The architecture is driven from the browser. That is the story of enterprise IT today.
• Consumer stuff is as hard or harder than enterprise stuf
• Consumers are both very fickle and time-sensitive
• have to be always there. The architectural assumptions of IT in the 1990s are not the assumptions going forward today.
• here are some businesses that will never embrace them. For purposes of argument that will be 1 percent.
• t 99 percent, will conclude that the analogy about the ATM machine is correct
• convenience of using ATM machines and the bank outweighs carrying the money around with you
• "How do I trust the bank?" You work out the problems and (eventually) people have enough experience to know even if there is a problem it will be fixed.
• the uptime of our servers and services appears to be higher than that of corporate services
• udy the reliability, we're trying to get to four nines (99.99 percent availability).
• ustomer and free customers. Their service levels are quite different.

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• Will economic conditions trigger a cloud computing avalanche?
• • 1980-82 double-dip recession: PC revolution followed shortly thereafter.
   
  • 1990-81 recession: Web revolution followed.
   
  • 2000-01 recession: Open source, Web services revolution followed.
   
  • 2007-09 recession: Cloud revolution to follow?
   
   

  It’s important to note that these shifts brought technology to the fore th

• Gartner Says More Than 50 Percent of PCs Purchased for Users Under the Age of 15 Will Have Touchscreens by 2015

• Benioff talked about change - specifically the move from Cloud 1 to Cloud 2.
• oints are centered around Facebook, mobile devices, real-time collaboration.
• hink about how far we’ve come. A decade ago, computing involved mouse-clicking a desktop that was largely tied to a single location. Today, touch screen mobile phones and tablet PCs come equipped with wireless connections to the Internet and allow us to not only tap into some work e-mail but also interact with a network of friends, co-workers and family members via Facebook, Twitter and so on.
• ScanDrop: A cloud scanning product that doesn't get "the cloud"
• is integrating social network type of tools into its cloud offerings
• building on real-time collaboration
• ong them was Vint Cerf, Google’s Chief Internet Evangelist, who noted that the cloud in 2010 is much like networks in 1973. The issue came up as Cerf was asked about the differences between the public cloud and private clouds. The short answer is that there can be both, just as there’s is an Internet and, within companies, there are intranet, or private Internet.
• ack in the 1970s, he said, companies had their own networks but there was no compatibility and no interoperability. The internet solved that problem by connecting the networks themselve
• he agency will need to look at these services to see how they fit so that companies like Google - in their role as providing online tools to consumers - has the uninterrupted ability to deliver those services to consumers.

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• Get started with your Tegra SDK here

• New NVIDIA Tegra Processor Powers The Tablet Revolution

• GNU AFFERO GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE

• Google Sky Map: Coolest app ever