OpenWeb 12/06/2011 (a.m.)
Survey: Companies Adopt the Cloud to Use Tablets, End Up Saving Less - ReadWriteCloud
- Contrast this with an astounding 92% of Brazil-based firms, and 70% of Australia-based firms, reporting some degree of cost savings.
- - By Gary Edwards
- Only 10% of respondents claimed cost reduction as the key driver for their cloud adoption campaign.
- - By Gary Edwards
- 46% of U.S.-based businesses, said it was mainly to give employees greater options for accessing resources, including from tablets and smartphones.
Mobile banking pioneer mFoundry nabs $18M from MasterCard, Intel Capital and others
Good stuff. The Internet-payment sector is really heating up: Square, PayPal, mFoundry, Simple, and my favorite - DWOLLA. The credit-card-payment-industry is still in control, but you can see from the heavy investments they are making in Web based systems, that the mobility phenomenon has them concerned. Dwolla is my favorite because of the innovative way they connect direct to the bank accounts of users, cutting the transaction and reconciliation cost from credit card standard 2.75% o a FLAT $0.25 cents!!!! Outstanding. Could prove very disruptive.
- - By Gary Edwards
- - By Gary Edwards
I Don't Understand What Anyone Is Saying Anymore
Precious stuff! And funny too:Summary statement:Abstract Valley Girl 2.0 Acronymitis Using Meaningless ExpressionsThis is when you combine the four diseases above. So you get phrases like, "You should meet this guy with the SIO. He's sort of this kind of social entrepreneur thinking outside of the box in the sustainability space and working on these ideas around sort of web-based social media, and he's in a round two capital raise in the VP space with the people at SVNP." How many times have you heard what you now recall to be precisely this sentence?This would all be funny if it weren't true. People just don't make sense anymore. You'll save yourself a lot of trouble if you internalize this. Observe it, deconstruct it, and appreciate just how ridiculous most business conversation has become.
- - By Gary Edwards
TripLingo | Mandarin for China
TripLingo provides mobile Language assistance applications for the iOS and Android. Assists with local idoms and prhasing for commonly used conversations and questions. Geared to help world travelors. Lots of languages to choose from!
- - By Gary Edwards
11 Groundbreaking Inventions Of 2011
Extraordinary stuff. A few items in particular stood out for me: The Army Research Office's "Vibrating Belt"; TripLingo; DiDO, and the skin cell printer. Amazing stuff.
- - By Gary Edwards
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