Experiencing the Cloud

May 19, 2016: The technology breakthrough which will lead to industry shakeout like that of between 1976-2016:

More information: The Next Revolution: 3D XPoint™non-volatile memories with speed and performance close to DRAM

Special message for those people who are hating long posts, especially if there are several of them. Also a warning that your “well founded” technological and industry trend opinions are now quickly becoming invalid as we are at an overall inflection point for all technology related industries. And this is bringing disruption (in terms of business continuity management) even to the recent disruptors whether they like it or not. So you need a decent technology trend tracking more than any time before. And you won’t, you couldn’t spare a “deep dive” into the very core of the technologies for the “experiencing of the cloud” from now on whether you like it, or not. So it is better to start such a deep dive as early as possible, and this website is providing great help in that for you.

[v0.7 yet] You came to a technologies trend tracking website maintained by Sandor Nacsa from Csömör, Hungary, and first you see the newest homepage content available since June 25, 2015.

First take a careful look at the “Prerequisites (June 2015⇒)” on the right (not all are available yet, the last “Windows for Networked Society” will be available in August only, and likely in a v0.X version).  That is reflecting the transition to post 2015 content geared towards the emerging “Networked Society [v0.5 yet]” from the post 2009 one which was representing ‘only’ the then emerging “Mobile Internet” phenomenon.

While the latter was still reminescent of the 2nd half of 20^th century’s “Computerized Society” this new type of content will embrace trend tracking for the full core technology landscape underlying the formation of this “Networked Society”. And note that such a society will as much determine the state of globality in the 1st half of the 21^st  century as the previous one determined the 2nd half of the last century in our global world.

The current transitional content is required for the exploration of the best ways to do technology trend tracking in these wider and longer ranging circumstances. So please accept as such. Especially the inevitable length of the proper prerequisites. Unfortunately they are absolutely necessary for understanding upcoming posts as they will be short.

For the start here I’am introducing my rationale for all that in the form of a mixed infographics & meme:

My composite assumptions about the strategic setup in the cloud space determining the future of the “Networked society” as of June 2015

Gartner Magic Quadrant Cases for Advanced Analytics Platforms and BI & Analytics platforms (19 and 20 of February 2015) as examples for understanding the Gartner research methodology. Click for the large view, and then have a look to the detailed reports which are behind. The links for that are provided here as well, thanks to Microsoft interest in paying to Gartner on behalf of everybody in these 2 cases.

Note:
The mixed infographics & meme provided above is heavily relying on representations of the competitive landscapes in most important for our case technology areas, namely: “Enterprise Application Platform as a Service (Enterprise Application PaaS)”, “Cloud Infrastructure as a Service (Cloud IaaS)” and “Public Cloud Storage Services” . The Gartner Magic Quadrant research methodology—which is behind these representations—provides a graphical competitive positioning of four types of technology providers in fast-growing markets: Leaders, Visionaries, Niche Players and Challengers.

Most IT buyers will use the MQ to short list the vendors that they will talk to for their technology service that they are looking for. These Gartner MQs (as well as the “competing with that” Forrester Waves) also get used in justifying the purchase decision that they made at the end of the buying cycle. It will be misleading, however, to be satisfied with those evaluations. Especially in the case of crucial underpinnings which Enterprise Application PaaS and Cloud IaaS definitely are. IT buyers should carry out their own further investigations—based on the short list obtained on Gartner MQs, Forrester Waves or others—before making such important decisions. To show a different kind of equally important for modern enterprises MQs I’ve composed the clickable illustration available above. It shows MQs for 2 interrelated technology areas of strategic importance:  “Advanced Analytics Platforms” and “Business Intelligence and Analytics Platforms“. Even the changes over the previous years are represented in some way there. Technology vendors appearing in a favorable quadrant, like Leaders, will quite often pay to Gartner for making the full report available on-line for a certain period in time. This is the case of Microsoft here, so I provided the above links as well. Software buyers will use that full content, not simply the graphical representation when working even on creating their short lists. So you should do the same if you want to understand the MQ methodology on these 2 example, which is easier to do for this analytics stuff as they are a much more general topic than anything else.

In addition to the following infomation representing the OpenStack V4 level state-of-technology-development as of June 25, 2015 see my related, but specific update post:
– OpenStack adoption (by Q1 2016), ‘Experiencing the Cloud’, June 7, 2016

And now we came to the issue of OpenStack which is the only available open source technology primarily deployed as an IaaS solution. Its promise has been huge, but “OpenStack is heading to the Trough of Disillusionment on the Technology Adoption Curve” as it was characterized by Randy Bias in his State of the Stack v4 address to the attendees of the OpenStack Summit held on May 20, 2015:

Randy told the audience there: “This is some information from Gartner and some others. Yeah, you know, there’s a lot of coaching I find. But what I found most interesting is this quote at the bottom which is that I want quote to you. … It dovetails completely with what I’ve been thinking, and what I’ve been hearing. Which is that number one is difficulty of the implementation is a problem. Two, shortage of skills, people who can actually build these things. Three, conflicting or uncoordinated project governance, and this is stuff that we’ve started to address with the “Big Tent” approach, and things like that. But you know there needs to be more. And, weak spots in some projects. And then, integration with the existing infrastructure, which I violently disagree with. You know, if you’re building OpenStack you should produce on new stuff, on net new stuff. But whatever, Gartner’s smarter than me, I guess, or supposedly. But this [is] pretty smart.” See also his slides.

OpenStack is currently [July 2, 2015] powering (not necessarily by itself only, although typically and mainly) a number of public clouds:
– in North America: Rackspace, Internap, OVH, HP Helion, IO, AURO, Dreamhost, VEXXHOST
– in Latin America: Kio Networks (Mexico), Dualtec (Brazil)
– in  Western Europe: Rackspace, OVH, Internap, Enter Cloud Suite, City Network, DataCentered, Numergy, Cloudwatt, Teuto.net, Elastx AB
– in China: Rackspace (Hong Kong), UnitedStack (Guangzhou)
– In Australia: Rackspace, Anchor
Note that out of those Cloud IaaS’ only Rackspace has been included into the Gartner Magic Quadrant (in the right uppermost part of the “niche player” category, i.e. with a very great potential to move into a better category next time). This means that the other “OpenStack powered” clouds have fallen out even from the “niche” category, i.e. they are not considered as significant players at all. For HP Helio it is for very simple reason that they have declared lately the intent of NOT targeting the public cloud market.

This does not mean at all, however, that OpenStack will not play a very significant role in the future. But that role is quite different of the cloud markets we’ve been presenting so far. Data networking and telecommunications equipment vendors* have entered a very critical phase in their business development. What is called by the #1 such supplier, Ericcson as “Networked Society” needs a cloud infrastructure platform inside the network itself. One on which all the vendors can build their higher level solutions for Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and Software Defined Networking (SDN). Those vendors have no other option than take OpenStack, “harden” and standardize it, and with this make it “telco grade” in the process.
* = traditional communications equipment vendors, now telco specific solution vendors

Look at the TelcoWorkingGroup/Members of the OpenStack Foundation, and you will see who are the major players in that process.  As of July 3, 2015 I’ve  found the following setup there (the technology areas of interests are on the right, in the form of a “tag cloud” in order to show the relative interest in them):
– IT (i.e. companies rooted in traditional IT): a total of 52 members — 40 from 9 large/bigger players (HP: 11, Red Hat:8, Mirantis:4 [the “only independent OpenStack provider”], IBM:3, VMware:3, eNovance:3 [acquired by Red Hat in summer 2014], Canonical:2, NEC:2, Tech Mahindra:2, Virtual Open System:2) plus 12 “small player” members (but among them: Dell, EMC, Oracle, Samsung)
– Communications equipment->solutions: a total of 49 members — 35 from 7 large players (Huawei:8, Cisco:6, Ericsson:4, Nokia Networks:4, Brocade: 4, Metaswitch Networks:4, Alcatel-Lucent:3, Juniper Networks:2) plus 14 “small player” members (but among them: Cyan which is belonging to Ciena from May 5, 2015)
– Telecom (i.e. operators or service providers as called otherwise): a total of 25 members — 19 from 9 large/bigger players (Deutsche Telekom:8, AT&T:3, SK Telecom:2, Comcast:2, Telefonica:2, DOCOMO Euro-Labs:2) plus 6 “small player” members (but they are: Orange, Verizon, Swisscom, Italtel, Portugal Telecom and CenturyLink) 
– Semiconductors: a total of 14 members — 12 from Intel (from which 3 from their OpenStack team and 3 from the wholly owned subsidiary Wind River with strong business interest in “telco grade” software of different kind), 1 from Freescale OpenStack team, and 1 from DEK Technologies 

February 7, 2014 (internal)⇒May 12, 2014 (public on the actual OpenStack Summit):
The Ericsson Case as an illustration — OpenStack as the Key Engine of NFV

From the OpenStack as the Key Engine of NFV presentation by Alan Kavanagh and Jan Söderström of Ericsson at OpenStack Summit on May 12, 2014 in Atlanta. You can watch the presentation on YouTube, as well as read the very recent OpenStack as the API framework for NFV: the benefits, and the extensions needed article by Alan Kavanagh in the #3 2015 issue of Ericsson Review. Note that Alan Kavanagh is one of the 4 member team of participants in the OpenStack TelcoWorkingGroup from Ericsson. He is Ericsson’s OpenStack Solutions Architect from 2012, as well as their Cloud Architect Expert since 2014. In the first part of the presentation video on YouTube Jan Söderström is also introducing Ericsson as it is today (“it is a SW company now, not the telephony company any more” etc.). He is VP and the Head of Product Line Cloud System and Platforms there.

May 19, 2014: from The Ericsson OpenStack Coming Out Party post on the Ericsson Research Blog

Despite the fact that people from Ericsson have been attending the OpenStack summits for 3 years, the official presence has been very low key.

At the OpenStack Juno Summit, Ericsson had a full Cloud PDU delegation, and even a booth. The booth featured two real-time demos, on virtualized CSCF for IMS and OpenStack charging using the Online Charging System, and two Flash demos, on Realtime Cloud and the virtualized Enterprise Gateway. Both the Online Charging System demo and the Realtime Cloud demo were products of Ericsson Research. The booth saw visits from several operator customers, but also from other companies, including some cloud service providers.

All three of the breakout session talks given by Ericsson were well attended.

1. The talk, given by Jan Soderstrom and Alan Kavanaugh, introduced Ericsson as a company to the OpenStack community. Being a telco equipment vendor, many in the community were not familiar with Ericsson’s history and current products. Jan gave a brief overview of these topics. Alan then introduced Ericsson’s approach to OpenStack, stressing that our primary goal in OpenStack is to bring the necessary technical work to the community to make OpenStack an appropriate platform for our telco customers. Alan stressed that Ericsson intends to contribute much of this work back to the community, in accordance with the open source operating principles.

2. Toby Ford, from ATT, and Mats Karlsson followed with a talk that had the room full to overflowing with attendees. Toby stressed that ATT was committed to OpenStack for its Network Function Virtualization platform, and Mats re-iterated Alan’s message about the additional technical work needed in OpenStack.
   [you can watch the video on YouTube: Leveraging OpenStack to Solve Telco Needs (Intro to SDN/NFV)]

3. Finally, Alan and François Lemarchand gave a talk about the use of OpenStack and SDN for service chaining and the virtual Enterprise Gateway.
   [you can watch the video on YouTube: SDN OpenStack Integration: Virtual Enterprise and Residential Gateway Use Cases]

Ericsson has a long history and much experience in standardization of telecommunication systems. The coming out party at OpenStack signals our intention to engage with the open source community, to the benefit of both sides.

And OpenStack is a truly distributed SW development initiative with people working on it in quite a number of countries:

From OpenStack Community Activity Report, January-March, 2015 by Bitergia:

New peak of code contributors
With 556 active contributors per month, this quarter has the highest in the history of OpenStack. Compared to previous quarter, core and regular contributors have also increased over 10% the former and 20% the latter.

Contributing developers are characterized as core, regular and casual depending on their activity in the git repositories. The classification is built by sorting contributors by their total number of commits; we sum the total commits per each individual contributors: the individuals whose commits sum up to 80% of the total number of commits in the quarter are the core contributors in that quarter. The regular contributors are those whose commits sum up to 95% of the total. The others are the casual contributors.

Submitters time to respond starts to decrease
For the first time, contributors submitting changesets seem to be reacting faster to comments from reviewers and submit new patches more rapidly. These values may be the result of the increased efforts by the OpenStack Foundation targeting newcomers.

Note that the whole OpenStack effort is still a relatively moderate one as far as the number of contributors to source code is concerned. But that number has been growing. For example, in the OpenStack Grizzly release, which debuted in April 4 2013, there were 596 authors who contributed a total of 9,490 code commits. That’s a number that more than doubled with the Icehouse release. For OpenStack Icehouse of April 17 2014, 1,202 authors contributed 17,209 code commits. In terms of contributing organizations, Red Hat topped the list, followed by IBM, HP and Rackspace. With the recent Kilo release of April 30 2015,  close to 1600 authors from 169 different organizations contributed with 21,181 commits to the source code. Red Hat was still the top participating organization, followed with HP, IBM, Mirantis and Rackspace.

Kilo was also the first release in which the “Communications equipment->solutions” type companies first were showing significant contribution with Cisco and Huawei entering the top 10 companies rank (#9 and #10 positions respectively) while some others from the sector are not far from moving up: Comcast #16 with 2 authors, NTT (DOCOMO) #17 with 4 authors, Ericsson #19 with 4 authors. But for the remaining companies from the list of the TelcoWorkingGroup/Members contributions are still of lesser significance: Brocade was #70 with 2 authors, Alcatel-Lucent #110 with no specific author indicated for only 84 lines added. Juniper is #152 but there is neither an author nor lines are indicated. Nokia Networks and Metaswitch Networks had no authorship in the Kilo release at all, despite their strong contribution to the TelcoWorkingGroup with 4 people each. Among the single person TelcoWorkingGroup members Mellanox was however #45 with 2 authors, Midokura #68 with 3 authors, and PLUMgrid #74 with 1 author, but others (ADVA Optical Networking, ASOCS, BTI Systems, Cyan, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Openwave Mobility, Qosmos, Sandvine, Snabb, Sonus Networks, and Spirent) had no authorship at all.

This is also showing that most of the network and telecommunications oriented contributions to the code will come in the future OpenStack releases. My personal guess is about 2 more years will be needed for “telco/carrier grade” hardening of the OpenStack code together with the necessary enhancements in the functionality (see the May 12 2014 “OpenStack as the Key Engine of NFV” story by Ericsson indicated earlier).

Find more information regarding this network and telecommunications direction of the cloud technology development in my upcoming “Cloud for Networked Society” post which is one of the “prerequisities”.

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My homepage from June 24, 2010 to June 22, 2015:
(in order to understand what was driving me during that earlier period)
Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) are fast changing from a computer-centered era of the past 60+ years into a new one based on an ICT cloud where the resources shared by everybody are behind the so called cloud covering smaller or bigger data centers, different hosting centers, or even servers in your closet connected to the Internet. All fueled by 3.5G/3.9G, SoC & reflectivity. See the links under “2010 – the 1st grand year of:” title on the right sidebar:

The Upcoming Mobile Internet Superpower

China is the epicenter of the mobile Internet world,
so of the next-gen HTML5 web
Put* together by Sándor Nacsa in August 2013

Food for thought:
– Simpler, more focused and human friendly social media–that’s the future? [March 4, 2013]
– Microsoft’s Future Vision: Live, Work, Play [March 1, 2013]

Breakthrough of all encompassing industry disruption kind:
– With 28nm non-exclusive in 2013 TSMC tested first tape-out of an ARM Cortex™-A57 processor on 16nm FinFET process technology [April 2, 2013]

Understanding the near term future:
– My summary of “supply chain” and “current market trend” analyses of the 2013 market by 3d parties: Boosting both the commodity and premium brand markets in 2013 with much more smartphones and tablets while the Windows notebook shipments will shrink by 2% [Nov 20, 2012 – Feb 21, 2013]
– Exynos 5 Octa, flexible display enhanced with Microsoft vision et al. from Samsung Components: the only valid future selling at CES 2013 [Jan 10, 2013]
– The future of mobile gaming at GDC 2013 and elsewhere [April 6, 2013]
– Qualcomm moving ahead of Allwinner et al. in CPU and GPU while trying to catch up with Allwinner in Ultra HD [Jan 12 – Feb 20, 2013]
– IGZO is coming as the ultimate future technology for LCDs [Jan 20, 2013]
– BYOD trends vs. Mobile enterprise platform trends [Jan 21, 2013]
– The first Windows Phone 4Afrika from Huawei for $150 = Huawei Ascend W1 for $240 (in China) and more elsewhere [Feb 5, 2013]
– Analysis: Michael Dell acquiring the rest 84% stake in Dell for $2.15B in cash, before becoming the next IBM, and even getting the cash back after the transaction [Feb 8, 2012]
– Qualcomm moving to Applications DSP (ADSP) [Feb 9, 2013]
– Microsoft entertainment as an affordable premium offering to be built on the basis of the Xbox console and Xbox LIVE services [Feb 13, 2013]

Klein did note that it’s not operating systems that matter in the end; it’s more the common experiences — apps and services like Xbox Live, Skype, SmartGlass — that are what really matter to consumers. [From Microsoft CFO Klein: We’re ready for devices of all sizes [ZDNet, Feb 13, 2013]]

– Intel Media: 10-20 year leap in television this year [Feb 16, 2013]
– Windows Azure Media Services OR Intel & Microsoft going together in the consumer space (again)? [Feb 17, 2013]
– Ubuntu and HTC in lockstep [Feb 19, 2013]
– Linux client market share gains outside the Android? Instead of gains will it shrink to 5% in the next 3 years? [Feb 20, 2013]
– Phablet competition in India: $258 Micromax-MediaTek-2013 against $360 Samsung-Broadcom-2012 [Feb 27, 2013]
– Applying 2-16 cores of ARM Cortex-A15 in ‘2014 vintage’ LSI Axxia SoCs that will power next-generation LTE basestations from macrocells to small cells opening upto 1000 times faster access to the cloud by 2020 [March 3, 2013]
– 5G WiFi with Wi-Fi CERTIFIED™ ac Miracast™ from Broadcom for streaming content to UHD (4K) TVs as well [March 3, 2013]
– Nokia’s expanded, new risks and uncertainties for its Windows Phone strategy for 2013 [March 16, 2013]
– New and successful “post feature phone” business of Nokia with a new set of risks and uncertainties [March 17, 2013]
– Lead post: High-volume Nokia Lumia superphones with Windows Phone 8 extended on the top for China, and on the entry level needed for Asia and Middle-East as well UPDATE: at even lower price by 27% [Dec 5, 2012 – March 21, 2013]
– Lead post: The endgame for ST-Ericsson, other SoC vendors like Allwinner to benefit tremendously from Ericsson’s advanced thin modems [March 24, 2013]
– Connecting – Trends in UI, Interaction, & Experience Design [Documentary YouTube channel, Jan 23, 2013]

The 18 minute “Connecting” documentary is an exploration of the future of Interaction Design and User Experience from some of the industry’s thought leaders. As the role of software is catapulting forward, Interaction Design is seen to be not only increasing in importance dramatically, but also expected to play a leading role in shaping the coming “Internet of things.” Ultimately, when the digital and physical worlds become one, humans along with technology are potentially on the path to becoming a “super organism” capable of influencing and enabling a broad spectrum of new behaviors in the world.

http://www.connectingthefilm.com/
Featured on:
– Fast Company 8 Insights About The Coming Era Of Interactive Design [Jan 14, 2013]
– Forbes Interactive Designers Connect The Human Superorganism [Jan 14, 2013]
– The Creators Project Documentary Explores How We Might Interact With The Devices Of Tomorrow [Jan 9, 2013]

Featuring

• Jennifer Bove Kicker Studio
• Andrei Herasimchuk Twitter
• Robert Murdock Method
• Jonas Löwgren Malmö University
• Eric Rodenbeck Stamen
• Robert Fabricant frog design
• Raphael Grignani Method
• Liz Danzico School of Visual Arts
• Helen Walters Doblin
• Younghee Jung Nokia
• Blaise Aguera y Arcas Microsoft
• Massimo Banzi Arduino

Created by
Bassett & Partners

• Tom Bassett, Andrew Casden, Scott Fitzloff, Ambika Jain, and Cassandra Michel

Produced by
Windows Phone Design Studio

• Albert Shum, Mike Kruzeniski, and Kat Holmes

Motivation for the film from Connecting [Jan 2, 2013] post by Mike Kruzeniski:

We imagined something similar to Gary Hustwit’s design documentaries, and began to wonder why there isn’t an Objectified for Interaction Design. The work that Interaction Designers are doing is so interesting, representing such a range of problems and perspectives, and most importantly, has such a broad impact on our daily lives, that it deserves being captured and discussed. So our goal became to capture how Interaction, UI, & User Experince Design is being practiced right now, the emerging problems, and trends in the field.

SUBJECT SEPARATED: ‘Live book’ on the ‘Allwinner phenomenon’ [Dec 31, 2012]

SUBJECT COMPLETED: Microsoft on five key technology areas and Windows 8 – UPDATED [Dec 15, 2012] with full content up to delivery and change of command [May 24, 2011 – Dec 15, 2012]

INTEL’S DOWNFALL:
– Intel’s biggest flop: at least 3-month delay in delivering the power management solution for its first tablet SoC [Dec 20, 2012]
– Dell Latitude 10: Windows 8 Clover Trail (Intel Z2760) hybrid tablets from OEMs [Dec 18, 2012]
– Acer Iconia W510: Windows 8 Clover Trail (Intel Z2760) hybrid tablets from OEMs [Oct 28 – Dec 14, 2012, 2012]
– Long overdue: Urgent search for an Intel savior [Nov 21, 2012]
– Can VIA Technologies save the mobile computing future of the x86 (x64) legacy platform? [Nov 23, 2012]
– Steven Sinofsky, ex Microsoft: The victim of an extremely complex web of the “western world” high-tech interests [Nov 13-20, 2012]

THE ALLWINNER PHENOMENON:
– Allwinner vis-à-vis HTC on 2013 International CES [Dec 10, 2012]
– Even Qualcomm was left significantly behind:
Allwinner A31 SoC is here with products and the A20 SoC, its A10 pin-compatible dual-core is coming in February 2013 [‘USD 99 Allwinner’ blog of mine, Dec 10-20, 2012]
– Previous history: $99 Android 4.0.3 7” IPS tablet with an Allwinner SoC capable of 2160p Quad HD and built-in HDMI–another inflection point, from China again
[This is a huge, compiled collection basically finished in September, 2012. Contains updates till November, 2012. It was published in early December, 2012. A new USD 99 Allwinner blog was launched on Nov 30, 2012 based on this compilation. Please read the two entry posts of that as well: The upcoming Chinese tablet and device invasion lead by the Allwinner SoCs and $40 entry-level Allwinner tablets–now for the 220 million students Aakash project in India in order to understand very quickly that It’s a Strategic Inflection Point of enourmous consequences, and not only for the ICT industry.]

High-end smartphones state-of-the-art: Lumia 920 vs. iPhone 5 (and vs. Android, Galaxy S3, HTC One X+)
– Lumia 920 vs. iPhone 5 (and vs. Android, Galaxy S3, HTC One X+) [Dec 7, 2012]
– Windows Phone 8 vs. Android 4.1 and 4.2 [Dec 6, 2012]

The currently leading posts on more general subjects:
– With Asha Touch starting at $83 [Feb 22: $65] and Lumia at $186 [Feb 22: $168] Nokia targeting the entry-level and low-end smartphone marke–UPDATED [Dec 19, 2012] new entry prices and Lumia 505 (? $220 ?) with AMOLED ClearBlack and Gorilla Glass [Nov 1, 2012 – Feb 22, 2013]
– Intel targeting ARM based microservers: the Calxeda case [Dec 14, 2012]
– The future of the semiconductor IP ecosystem [Dec 13, 2012]
– STMicroelectronics and Texas Intruments are exiting the mobile market as there is no chance to compete with aggressive SoC vendors from PRC and the market #2 MediaTek from Taiwan [Dec 12, 2012]
– MediaTek MT6589 quad-core Cortex-A7 SoC with HSPA+ and TD-SCDMA is available for Android smartphones and tablets of Q1 delivery  [Dec 12, 2012]
– Qualcomm quad-core Cortex-A7 SoCs with Adreno 305 and 1080p coming for the high-volume global market and China [Dec 9, 2012]
– Marko Ahtisaari from Nokia and Steven Guggenheimer from Microsoft on the Internet of Things day of LeWeb Paris’12 [Dec 6-8, 2012]
– Where China is not a threat (yet): Amazing fulfillment robots coming to Amazon [Nov 27, 2012]
– My summary of “supply chain” and “current market trend” analyses of the 2013 market by 3d parties: Boosting both the commodity and premium brand markets in 2013 with much more smartphones and tablets while the Windows notebook shipments will shrink by 2% [Nov 20, 2012 – Feb 21, 2013]
and here you can start to read my own analyses based on the new product directions and supporting SoC trends which reveal even more for the 2013 markets:
– Nokia: end of the decline? [Jan 10, 2013]
– High-volume Nokia Lumia superphones with Windows Phone 8 extended on the top for China, and on the entry level needed for Asia and Middle-East as well UPDATE: at even lower price by 27% [Dec 5, 2012 – March 21, 2013]
– $50 Nokia Asha 205 QWERTY phones and Nokia 206 feature phones with smartphone like connectivity and web experience but with more convenient keyboard interactions [Dec 2, 2012]
– $48 Mogu M0 “peoplephone”, i.e. an Android smartphone for everybody to hit the Chinese market on November 15 [Nov 9, 2012]
– From a 3d party: The amazing China smart phone market [Kai Fu Lee, Nov 12, 2012]

Broadband wireless is now over 58%, and smart phone prices have dropped to about $100 for an acceptable Android phone, and about $200 for a full-featured Android phone. Smart phones are now spreading like wildfire. About a year ago, there were less than 50M users, basically affluent or tech saavy users who were willing to pay $500 for a phone and $30 a month for 3G. But now, students, young white collar, and even blue collar workers are swarming into the smart phone market!

– From a 3d party: Overview of the one year old HDMI stick market [ARMdevices.net, Nov 20, 2012]: from $25 (single core stick solution) to $89 (a quad-core stick solution)
– China: going either for good quality commodities or the premium brands only [Nov 21, 2012]
– Hit post: Steven Sinofsky, ex Microsoft: The victim of an extremely complex web of the “western world” high-tech interests [Nov 13-20, 2012] 790 people read it in the first 24 hours (only 53 from Twitter, and 43 from Facebook)
– Why Microsoft is disARMed? Because pressure from Intel Haswell: “Mobile computing is not limited to tiny, low-performing devices” [Nov 15, 2012] although in products this technology will be available only in Q2 CY2013.

The most popular topic for the last 100 days (as of Oct 7, 2012):
– Core post: Boosting the MediaTek MT6575 success story with the MT6577 announcement  – UPDATED with MT6588/83 coming early 2013 in Q42012 and 8-core MT6599 in 2013 [June 27, July 27, Sept 11-13, Sept 26, Oct 2, 2012]
– See these 103 days statistics as well, showing the time lag between the “breaking news” and “everybody’s news” moments in the history of a really important tech news item:

The most popular topic for the last 300 days (as of Oct 7, 2012):
– Core post: Samsung push for bada in 2012 and other Linux based devices–with Tizen UPDATE: 1st Tizen devices in 2013 [Nov 5, 2011 – Oct 7, 2012]
– See these 336 days statistics as well, showing that here we have similarly, an around 2 months period after the “breaking news”, and then an “everybody’s news” period which is much prolonged due to the specific nature of the given tech news (as the first Tizen-powered devices will come to the market only in 2013):

 

ALERTS:

– The future of mobile gaming at GDC 2013 and elsewhere [April 6, 2013]- With 28nm non-exclusive in 2013 TSMC tested first tape-out of an ARM Cortex™-A57 processor on 16nm FinFET process technology [April 2, 2013]– Windows RT Buzz: only the naming will disappear? [March 28, 2013]- Lead post: The endgame for ST-Ericsson, other SoC vendors like Allwinner to benefit tremendously from Ericsson’s advanced thin modems [March 24, 2013]
– New and successful “post feature phone” business of Nokia with a new set of risks and uncertainties [March 17, 2013]
– Nokia’s expanded, new risks and uncertainties for its Windows Phone strategy for 2013 [March 16, 2013]
– Simpler, more focused and human friendly social media–that’s the future? [March 4, 2013]
– Microsoft’s Future Vision: Live, Work, Play [March 1, 2013]
– Lead post: 5G WiFi with Wi-Fi CERTIFIED™ ac Miracast™ from Broadcom for streaming content to UHD (4K) TVs as well [March 3, 2013]
– Lead post: Applying 2-16 cores of ARM Cortex-A15 in ‘2014 vintage’ LSI Axxia SoCs that will power next-generation LTE basestations from macrocells to small cells opening upto 1000 times faster access to the cloud by 2020 [March 3, 2013]
– Lead post: Phablet competition in India: $258 Micromax-MediaTek-2013 against $360 Samsung-Broadcom-2012 [Feb 27, 2013]
– Linux client market share gains outside the Android? Instead of gains will it shrink to 5% in the next 3 years? [Feb 20, 2013]
– Ubuntu and HTC in lockstep [Feb 19, 2013]
– Lead post: Windows Azure Media Services OR Intel & Microsoft going together in the consumer space (again)? [Feb 17, 2013]
– Lead post: Intel Media: 10-20 year leap in television this year [Feb 16, 2013]
– Lead post: Microsoft entertainment as an affordable premium offering to be built on the basis of the Xbox console and Xbox LIVE services [Feb 13, 2013]
– Qualcomm moving to Applications DSP (ADSP) [Feb 9, 2013]
– Lead post: Analysis: Michael Dell acquiring the rest 84% stake in Dell for $2.15B in cash, before becoming the next IBM, and even getting the cash back after the transaction [Feb 8, 2012]
– The first Windows Phone 4Afrika from Huawei for $150 = Huawei Ascend W1 for $240 (in China) and more elsewhere [Feb 5, 2013]
– Lead post: Exynos 5 Octa, flexible display enhanced with Microsoft vision et al. from Samsung Components: the only valid future selling at CES 2013 [Jan 10, 2013]
– Lead post: Qualcomm moving ahead of Allwinner et al. in CPU and GPU while trying to catch up with Allwinner in Ultra HD [Jan 12 – Feb 20, 2013]
– Future selling at CES 2013: 3D without glasses, Ultra HD (4K) TV, transparent display, multiscreen convergence, and upgradable smart TV – only Google TV and Gorilla Glass 3 are not [Jan 11, 2013]
– Nokia: end of the decline? [Jan 10, 2013]
– Subject separated: ‘Live book’ on the ‘Allwinner phenomenon’ [Dec 31, 2012]
– Intel’s biggest flop: at least 3-month delay in delivering the power management solution for its first tablet SoC [Dec 20, 2012]
– Dell Latitude 10: Windows 8 Clover Trail (Intel Z2760) hybrid tablets from OEMs [Dec 18, 2012]
– Lead post: Intel targeting ARM based microservers: the Calxeda case [Dec 14, 2012]
– Lead post: The future of the semiconductor IP ecosystem [Dec 13, 2012]
– STMicroelectronics and Texas Intruments are exiting the mobile market as there is no chance to compete with aggressive SoC vendors from PRC and the market #2 MediaTek from Taiwan [Dec 12, 2012]
– Lead post: MediaTek MT6589 quad-core Cortex-A7 SoC with HSPA+ and TD-SCDMA is available for Android smartphones and tablets of Q1 delivery  [Dec 12, 2012]
– Lead post: Qualcomm quad-core Cortex-A7 SoCs with Adreno 305 and 1080p coming for the high-volume global market and China [Dec 9, 2012]
– Lumia 920 vs. iPhone 5 (and vs. Android, Galaxy S3, HTC One X+) [Dec 7, 2012]
– Windows Phone 8 vs. Android 4.1 [Dec 6, 2012]
– Lead post: Marko Ahtisaari from Nokia and Steven Guggenheimer from Microsoft on the Internet of Things day of LeWeb Paris’12 [Dec 6-8, 2012]
– Lead post: High-volume Nokia Lumia superphones with Windows Phone 8 extended on the top for China, and on the entry level needed for Asia and Middle-East as well UPDATE: at even lower price by 27% [Dec 5, 2012 – March 21, 2013]
– Lead post: $50 Nokia Asha 205 QWERTY phones and Nokia 206 feature phones with smartphone like connectivity and web experience but with more convenient keyboard interactions [Dec 2, 2012]
– Food for thought: Amazing fulfillment robots coming to Amazon [Nov 27, 2012]
– Core post: Can VIA Technologies save the mobile computing future of the x86 (x64) legacy platform? [Nov 23, 2012
– Food for thought: Urgent search for an Intel savior [Nov 21, 2012]
– Core post: Boosting both the commodity and premium brand markets in 2013 with much more smartphones and tablets while the Windows notebook shipments will shrink by 2% [Nov 20 – Dec 10, 2012]
– China: going either for good quality commodities or the premium brands only [Nov 21, 2012]
– Core post: Intel Haswell: “Mobile computing is not limited to tiny, low-performing devices” [Nov 15, 2012]
– Core post: Nokia HERE Maps for everything, for FireFox OS in a strategic partnership with Mozilla [Nov 13, 2012]
– Food for thought: Steven Sinofsky, ex Microsoft: The victim of an extremely complex web of the “western world” high-tech interests [Nov 13-20, 2012]
– Food for thought: Microsoft Surface with some questions about the performance and smoothness of the experience [Nov 12-28, 2012]
– Food for thought: Ouya $99 open console project based on Android Jelly Bean backed by $8.6M of crowd funding on Kickstarter [Nov 10, 2012]
– Lead post: $48 Mogu M0 “peoplephone”, i.e. an Android smartphone for everybody to hit the Chinese market on November 15 [Nov 9, 2012]
– Lead post: With Asha Touch starting at $83 [Feb 22: $65] and Lumia at $186 [Feb 22: $168] Nokia targeting the entry-level and low-end smartphone marke–UPDATED [Dec 19, 2012] new entry prices and Lumia 505 (? $220 ?) with AMOLED ClearBlack and Gorilla Glass [Nov 1, 2012 – Feb 22, 2013]

– BUILD 2012: Notes on Day 1 and 2 Keynotes [Oct 31, 2012]
– Acer Iconia W510: Windows 8 Clover Trail (Intel Z2760) hybrid tablets from OEMs [Oct 28 – Dec 14, 2012, 2012]
– Core post: China’s HW engineering lead: The Rockchip RK292 series (RK2928 and RK2926) example [Oct 27, 2012]
– Microsoft Surface: its premium quality/price vs. even iPad3 [Oct 26, 2012]
– Microsoft Surface: First media reflections after the New-York press launch [Oct 26-28, 2012]
– Core post: ASUS: We are the real transformers, not Microsoft [Oct 17, 2012]
– Core post: China: 20,000 TD-LTE base stations in 13 cities by the end of 2012 and about 200,000 base stations in 100 cities launched in 2013 with the 2.6GHz TDD spectrum planning just startes—SoftBank with TD-LTE strategy in Japan getting into global play with Sprint (also the 49% owner of US TD-LTE champion, Clearwire) acquisition [Oct 16, 2012]
– Food for thought: Huawei the “misterious” [Oct 12, 2012]
– Food for thought: Entrepreneurial global brand building by the founder of the Chinese aigo [爱国者] company: a desparate attempt to avoid the death march of ruthless competition at home [Oct 11, 2012]
– Core post: ST-Ericsson: Fundamental repositioning for modem, APE and ModAps spaces [Oct 8, 2012]
– Core post: NOOK Media LLC: the finalization of the strategic joint venture between Barnes & Noble and Microsoft [Oct 6, 2012]
– Core post: Qualcomm decided to compete with the existing Cortex-A5/Krait-based offerings till the end of 2012 [Sept 30, 2012]
– Core post: The cloud experience vision of .NET by Microsoft 12 years ago and its delivery now with Windows Azure, Windows 8/RT, Windows Phone, iOS and Android among others [Sept 16-20, 2012]
– Take note: MT6577-based JiaYu G3 with IPS Gorilla glass 2 sreen of 4.5” etc. for $154 (factory direct) in China and $183 [Sept 13, 2012]
– Core post: The low priced, Android based smartphones of China will change the global market [Sept 10-26, 2012]
– Food for thought: Cloud experience development: the new essence [Sept 7, 2012]
– Core post: Unique differentiators of Nokia Lumia 920/820 innovated for high-volume superphone markets of North America, Europe and elsewhere [Sept 6 – Nov 13, 2012]
– Core post: MediaTek’s ‘smart-feature phone’ effort with likely Nokia tie-up [Aug 15 – Sept 3, 2012]
– Core post: Nokia Design direction [Aug 1 – Oct 31, 2012]
– Core post: Qualcomm’s critical reliance on supply constrained 28nm foundry capacity [July 27 – Nov 13, 2012]
– Core post: Lowest H2’12 device cost SoCs from Spreadtrum will redefine the entry level smartphone and feature phone markets [July 26 – Nov 9, 2012]
– Core post: Smartphone-like Asha Touch from Nokia: targeting the next billion users with superior UX created for ultra low-cost and full touch S40 devices [July 20, 2012 – Feb 12, 2013]
– Core post: Apple’s Consumer Computing System: 5 years of “revolutionary” iPhone and “magical” iPad [July 9-21, 2012]
– Core post: Nexus 7: Google wanted it in 4 months for $199/$245, ASUS delivered + Nexus Q (of Google’s own design and manufacturing) added for social streaming from Google Play to speakers and screen in home under Android device control [June 28, 2012]
– Core post: Boosting the MediaTek MT6575 success story with the MT6577 announcement  — UPDATED with MT6588/83 coming early 2013 in Q42012 and 8-core MT6599 in 2013 [June 27, July 27, Sept 11-13, Sept 26, Oct 2, 2012]
– Less focus on feature phones while extending the smartphones effort: further readjustments at Nokia [June 25 – Aug 9, 2012]
– Windows Phone 8 software architecture vs. that of Windows Phone 7, 7.5 and the upcoming 7.8 [June 22, 2012]
– Core post: Giving up the total OEM reliance strategy: the Microsoft Surface tablet [June 19, 2012 – March 29, 2013]
– Core post: Thin/Zero Client and Virtual Desktop Futures [May 31, 2012]
– Tech investment banking expertise to strengthen the unique value focus of growing the HTC brand and to achieve high growth again [April 18 Aug 7, 2012]
– The future of consumer legacy of immersive technologies [April 13, 2012]
– The Where Platform from Nokia: a company move to taking data as a raw material to build products [April 7, 2012]
– The 41 MP Nokia 808 PureView meeting the vanishing world challenge [April 4, 2012]
– Sharp-er Hon Hai / Foxconn [March 31, 2012]
– Nokia trying the first Lumia month in China with China Telecom exclusive [March 28, 2012]
– Huawei Enterprise after its 1st year and the 2012 strategy [March 26, 2012]
– Standards-based adaptive layouts in Windows 8 (and IE10) [March 24, 2012]
– James Whittaker’s Quality Software Crusade from Academia to Microsoft, then Google and now back to Microsoft [March 14 – March 21, 2012]
– MWC 2012: Fuzhou Rockchip Electronics [March 13, 2012]
– Nokia under transition (as reported by the company) [March 11 – 30, 2012]
– The future of Windows Embedded: from standalone devices to intelligent systems [March 9-29, 2012]
– MWC 2012: the 4G/LTE lightRadio network [March 8, 2012]
– MWC 2012 day 1 news [Feb 27, 2012]: Samsung and Nokia [Feb 28, 2012]
– Continued Toshiba-SanDisk dominance for flash memories [Feb 26, 2012]
– Core post: E Ink strategic value proposition: displays on every smart surface [Feb 20 – Sept 21, 2012]
– Nokia’s strategy for “the next billion” based on software and web optimization with super low-cost 2.5/2.75G SoCs [Feb 14 – April 23, 2012]
– China-based second-tier and white-boxed handset makers targeting the emerging markets [Feb 13 – April 17, 2012]
– AMD 2012-13: a new Windows 8 strategy expanded with ultra low-power APUs for the tablets and fanless clients [Feb 3, 2012]
– Marvell’s SMILE Plug for the “Classroom 3.0” initiative [Feb 1, 2012]
–Marvell SoCs to win both Microsoft and Nokia for Windows Phone and Windows 8 platforms (after the Kinect success) [Feb 1, 2012]
– Nokia CEO: salespeople to deliver true WP7 retail experience supported by improved product management, marketing and accelerated global coverage with a full breadth of products [Jan 29, 2012]
– Core post: Qualcomm added a superior to its mirasol, but also MEMS display technology for its upcoming US$1B fab–UPDATE: Plans on Hold– UPDATE2: Sharp is involved [Jan 26 – Dec 11, 2012]
– China TD-SCDMA and W-CDMA 3G subscribers by the end of 2011: China Mobile lost its original growth momentum [Jan 21, 2012]
– Intel 2011: a year of records, milestones and breakthroughs [Jan 21, 2012]
– AH-IPS technology from LG Display and True HD IPS of LG Mobile LTE superphones: Nitro HD (AT&T) and Spectrum (Verizon)  [Jan 19, 2012]
– Pixel Qi finding ruggedized devices are the 2012 opportunity  [Jan 16, 2012]
– Google adding a style guide (design guidelines) to Android (4 years late) [Jan 13, 2012]
– Nokia’s Lumia strategy is capitalizing on platform enhancement opportunities with location-based services, better photographic experience etc. [Jan 12 – April 27, 2012]
– VIZIO’s two pronged strategy: Android based V.I.A. Plus device ecosystem + Windows based premium PC entertainment [Jan 11, 2012]
– Smarterphone end-to-end software solution for “the next billion” Nokia users [Jan 9 – April 19, 2012]
– Marvell® ARMADA® PXA168 based XO laptops and tablets from OLPC with $185 and target $100 list prices respectively [Jan 8, 2012]
– The new, high-volume market in China is ready to define the 2012 smartphone war [Jan 6 – July 13, 2012]
– Google’s revitalization of its Android-based TV effort via Marvell SoC and reference design [Jan 5, 2012]
– The precursor of 2012 smartphone war: Nokia Lumia vs. Samsung Omnia W in India [Jan 3, 2012 – April 1, 2013]
– Shrinking capital investment in the worldwide LCD industry [Jan 2, 2012]
– The ZTE way of capitalizing on the LTE opportunity [Dec 20, 2011 – Feb 10, 2012]
– The leading ClearBlack display technology from Nokia [Dec 18, 2011 – April 18, 2012]
– Best practice industrial and user experience design – Nokia and Microsoft [Dec 17, 2011 – Jan 31, 2012]
– New Mobile and Communications Group (MCG) at Intel [Dec 16-30, 2011]
– Core post: Imagination Technologies becoming the multimedia IP leader for SoC vendors—Update: its outlook turning bleak [Dec 16, 2011 – Oct 11, 2012]
– World’s lowest cost, US$40-50 Android smartphones — sub-$100 retail — are enabled by Spreadtrum [Dec 11, 2011 – Feb 27, 2012]
– Kindle Fire with its $200 price pushing everybody up, down or out of the Android tablet market [Dec 8-28, 2011]
– One terabit of data in a fingertip-size NAND flash memory package from Intel and Micron joint venture [Dec 7, 2011]
– The future of TV via a new Metro-styled Xbox 360 dashboard plus a plethora of new content partners [Dec 7, 2011]
– The killing power of bloated web communications [Dec 6, 2011]
– Samsung Exynos 5250 [Dec 6, 2011]
– OPhone 2.5 and beyond from Borqs for China Mobile [Dec 5, 2011]
– Blurring lines between smartphones and feature phones: the Muve Music Phone case from Cricket Communications [Dec 2, 2011 – Feb 26, 2012]
– China becoming the lead market for mobile Internet in 2012/13 [Dec 1, 2011 – Jan 16, 2012]
– 1st W3C conference for Web developers and designers [Nov 26, 2011]
– Web apps for the open web from Mozilla [Nov 25, 2011]
– Windows 8 gaining smartphone like “connected standby” capability [Nov 23, 2011]
– Designing smarter phones–Marko Ahtisaari (Nokia) and Albert Shum (Microsoft) [Nov 23, 2011]
– Qualcomm mirasol display technology delivered [Nov 22, 2011 – July 18, 2012]
– Application Craft: a multiplatform rapid development system and SaaS for HTML5 et al [Nov 16, 2011]
– NVIDIA Tegra 3 and ASUS Eee Pad Transformer Prime [Nov 10 – Dec 2, 2011]
– Core post: Samsung push for bada in 2012 and other Linux based devices–with Tizen UPDATE: 1st Tizen devices in 2013 [Nov 5, 2011 – Oct 7, 2012]
– ST-Ericsson NovaThor SoCs for future Windows Phones from Nokia [Nov 3-24, 2011]
– Lightning fast (ICT-backed) and dominating finances clashing with the age-old slowness of democratic consensus building [Nov 2, 2011]
– The early 2010 Windows 8 alternative: the Courier tablet [Nov 2, 2011]
– Nokia Lumia (Windows Phone 7) value proposition [Oct 26-28, 2011]
– TI’s OMAP4460 in Samsung GALAXY Nexus with Android 4.0 [Oct 21, 2011 – Feb 7, 2012]
– TD-SCDMA: US$3B into the network (by the end of 2012) and 6 million phones procured (just in October) [Oct 18, 2011 – Jan 16, 2012]
– Microsoft and jQuery Mobile, PhoneGap [Oct 13, 2011 – March 19, 2012]
– The accelerated Adobe strategy for HTML5 et al [Oct 12, 2011]
– Qualcomm is very close to getting the HTML5 web apps performance and feature set to rival that of native OS apps [Oct 11, 2011]
– Plane to Line Switching (PLS) screen technology (Samsung) [Oct 2, 2011]
– The technical excellence of the new Symbian range from Nokia [Oct 1, 2011]
– $199 Kindle Fire: Android 2.3 with specific UI layer and cloud services [Sept 29, 2011]
– Pixel Qi’s second investment round concluded by the 3M investment [Sept 19 – Dec 21, 2011]
– Windows 8 Metro style Apps + initial dev reactions [Sept 15, 2011]
– Windows 8: the first 12 hours headlines and reports [Sept 14, 2011]
– Social media based global product management [Sept 13, 2011]
– Pre-Commerce and the Consumerization of IT [Sept 10, 201]
– The high-end Windows Phone 7.5 (Mango) marketing [Sept 4, 2011]
– More on supply chain battles for … [Aug 31, 2011]
– First real chances for Marvell on the tablet and smartphone fronts [Aug 21, 2011 – Aug 21, 2012]
– Innovative entertainment class [Android] tablet from VIZIO plus a unified UX for all cloud based CE devices, from TVs to smartphones [Aug 21, 2011 – Jan 7, 2012]
– PCs and cloud clients are not parts of Hewlett-Packard’s strategy anymore [Aug 19, 2011 – Jan 17, 2012]
– New high-tech and direct investment relationships between the US and China? [Aug 19, 2011]
– Huawei’s IDEOS U8150 smartphone for US$86 in Kenya: 350,000 units sold in 8 months [Aug 17-19, 2011]
– Supply chain battles for much improved levels of price/performance competitiveness [Aug 16, 2011]
– Nokia feature phones (S40) are losing market more than Nokia smartphones (S60, Symbian) [Aug 14, 2011]
– First Nokia WP7 in Q4 via an ODM route from Compal [Aug 13-17, 2011]
– Nokia World 2011 — Oct 26-27, London [Aug 11 – Oct 17, 2011]
– Nokia’s North America centric approach for Windows Phone 7 [Aug 11 – Dec 20, 2011]
– Next-gen Snapdragon S4 class SoCs — exploiting TSMC’s 28nm process first — coming in December [Aug 9 – Nov 25, 2011]
– Qualcomm’s new partnership with Nokia [Aug 8, 2011]
– Microsoft Tellme cloud service for WP7 ‘Mango’ and other systems [Aug 6, 2011]
– Qualcomm Snapdragon SoCs with a new way of easy identification [Aug 4 – Nov 16, 2011]
– Nokia Windows Phone to debut on August 17 at the huge gamescom 2011 event [Aug 3-17, 2011]
– The Memjet disruption to the printing industry [July 30, 2011 – Jan 16, 2012]
– Netbook prices starting $50 less at $200 via Intel MeeGo strategy [July 29, 2011]
– Tackling the Android tide [July 16 – Aug 17, 2011]
– Good TD-LTE potential for target commercialisation by China Mobile in 2012 [July 13 – Feb 8, 2012, 2011]
– Marvell’s single chip TD-SCDMA solutions beaten (again) by two-chip solutions of Chinese vendors [July 11, 2011]
– Nokia N9 UX [?Swipe?] on MeeGo 1.2 Harmattan [June 24, 2011 – Aug 10, 2012]
– A too early assesment of the emerging ‘Windows 8’ dev & UX functionality [June 24 – Aug 19, 2011]
– First-ever Israeli National Pavilion Set up at 2011 Computex Taipei [June 20, 2011]
– SOEs and state coexistence in China [June 19, 2011 – Feb 24, 2012]
– China Mobile repositioning for TD-LTE with full content and application aggregation services, 3G [HSPA level] is to create momentum for that [June 18 – Aug 26, 2011]
– Acer repositioning for the post Wintel era starting with AMD Fusion APUs [June 17, 2011]
– Metro styled new entertainment experience on Xbox 360 [June 6, 2011]
– ICT Top-100 in Mainland China and the #1 Huawei [June 4, 2011]
– Google as an evil enterprise: the perception changes as vital APIs are shut down [June 1, 2011]
– SEO – Rand Fishkin – SEOmoz – Future – Past [May 31, 2011]
– Microsoft’s huge underperformance on mainland China market [May 30, 2011]
– High expectations on Marvell’s opportunities with China Mobile [May 28 – June 1, 2011]
– Microsoft’s next step in SoC level slot management [May 27 – June 2, 2011]
– Barnes & Noble NOOK offensive [May 25, 2011]
– SUBJECT COMPLETED: Microsoft on five key technology areas and Windows 8 – UPDATED [Dec 15, 2012] with full content up to delivery and change of command [May 24, 2011 – Dec 15, 2012]
– E Ink and Epson achieve world-leading ePaper resolution [May 23, 2011]
– Chromebook / box with Citrix Receiver going against Microsoft [May 12 – July 29, 2011]
– TSMC led foundries and their SoC customers against Intel [May 10 – Nov 25, 2011]
– Intel’s SoC strategy strengthened by 22nm Tri-Gate technology [May 10 – Nov 30, 2011]
– Amazon Tablet PC with E Ink Holdings’ Hydis FFS screen [May 3 – Nov 25, 2011]
– E Ink Holdings EPD prospects are good [April 30, 2011 – Jan 9, 2012]
– Intel: accelerated Atom SoC roadmap down to 22nm in 2 years and a “new netbook experience” for tablet/mobile PC market [April 17 – June 7, 2011]
– Gartner: media tablets are the new segment next to mobile PCs and desktops, as well as web- and app-capable mobile phones [April 16 – June 13, 2011]
– Larry Page to boost Google even more as becoming CEO again [April 2, 2011]
– Acer’s decision of restructuring: a clear sign of accepting the inevitable disintegration of the old PC (Wintel) ecosystem and the need for joining one of the new ecosystems under formation [April 1-29, 2011]
– Acer & Asus: Compensating lower PC sales by tablet PC push [March 29 – Aug 2, 2011]
– ASUS Eee Slate based Windows marketing from Microsoft [March 21-23, 2011]
– ASUS, China Mobile and Marvell join hands in the OPhone ecosystem effort for “Blue Ocean” dominance [March 8, 2011]
– Be aware of ZTE et al. and white-box (Shanzhai) vendors: Wake up call now for Nokia, soon for Microsoft, Intel, RIM and even Apple! [Feb 21, 2011]
– Pixel Qi’s first big name device manufacturing partner is the extremely ambitious ZTE [Feb 15 – June 3, 2011]
– Kinoma is now the marvellous software owned by Marvell  [Feb 15, 2011]
– Marvell to capitalize on BRIC market with the Moby tablet [Feb 3, 2011

More information regarding the fundamental changes expected in the current year is available in the third and first posts of 2011:
– Next-generation cloud client experiences based on the Metro design language [Jan 24]
– Changing purchasing attitudes for consumer computing are leading to a new ICT paradigm [Jan 5]

This is directly leading to my second post of CES 2011 presence with Microsoft moving to SoC & screen level slot management that is not understood by analysts/observers at all [Jan 7]. That move will lead to dramatic changes in the industry as will be made clear through additional details by the time of Microsoft’s MIX 2011 of April 12-14 event as the latest. Large post with detailed content, including:
Part I. The SoC support announcement
Part II. The Steve Ballmer CES 2011 opening keynote and all other Microsoft related
– Footage from the Microsoft keynote with some relevant keynote transcript excerpts included
– New Windows Laptops, Tablets and Slates Showcased
– The Next Generation of Microsoft Surface – LCDs That Can ‘See’
– New Xbox Avatar Capabilities on Display
– Copy-and-Paste Coming to Windows Phone 7
– Additional details for the three PCs demonstrated in the keynote
– Other new PCs
– Hardware acceleration for cloud clients (browsers etc.): AMD Fusion APUs, NVIDIA GeForce 500M [Jan 14]
– Xbox and Surface 2 additional information
– Windows Embedded Standard 7: the first wave of OEM partners exploiting the included Windows Media Center [Jan 14]

December News: — Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) and 3.0 (Honeycomb), see more information (updated on Jan 10, 2010) — How Microsoft is going to solve the problem of assuring HTML5 et al platform stability for web developers? See more information. — Pixel Qi and CPT alliance for sunlight readability: screens with only 0.5 watts in mono and 1.25 watts in color? See more information. — Hanvon and E-Ink Holdings are betting on next-generation e-readers to build a strong mass market in China during the next year or two, also well supplementing a Microsoft and Intel based premium strategy by Hanvon, see more information — With Treesaver you have now a platform by which you could publish to the web in print-like high quality accessible from any device/browser, and without any specific apps, see more information — Microsoft’s upcoming CES 2011 announcement of a Windows slate overlay software for touch-first HTML5 applications could have true competitive impact on the overall tablet (iPad etc.) market, see more information. — Intel is restricted to play a catch up game in the tablet space and just to try the waters in the smartphone market in 2011, but after that everything will be much more promising because of its manufacturing technology lead and earlier evidence to become a dominant player via its architecture, see more information. — Nokia to challenge iPhone, Android and Windows Phone 7 with a brand new User Experience (UX) design pattern for MeeGo, see more information — Microsoft has a new overall platform strategy based on evolving HTML 5, and an enhanced one for its own Windows client devices, see more information.

And here are the pre-December 2010 news in a grouping also representing popularity:

Most read: – Marvell ARMADA: beating other ARMs — beaten by Chinese chipmakers — full tablet prototype costing $75 to manufacture – Phone/tablet capable Wintel: Oak Trail Atom SoC — arriving in December — Oak Trail pricing — Microsoft slate promise still late – 3.9G and 4G: LTE & WiMAX — TD-LTE in 2011 — IMT-Advanced

– Microsoft and HTML 5:  new platform? — leading compliance? — split strategy – Other infonuggets: Android — OPhone — HTC brand — 2 Chinas: cloud computing and joint ICT market — business SaaS: SAP Business by Design and Microsoft Office 365 — 3 screens and a cloud – E-reading: SaaS wars — FUD – Mobile speed: 3.75G — in reality

Consequently our clients are fast changing as well. You no longer need a fully equipped PC or notebook to serve your personal computing needs. As small device as the contemporary smartphone is sufficient to feel yourself empowered by the ICT cloud. We even had media tablets last year, like the pioneering Apple iPad, which are serving your cloud content consumption needs. And then all those classic devices, the PC, the notebook, the netbook etc., that you were accustomed to in the recent pre-cloud era, have just started to be transformed into something else to fit cloud authoring and consumption as well.

The authoring includes not only content in the classic sense, meant directly for human eyes, but significantly more capable software of a new kind that is operating in the cloud, aptly called Software as a Service (SaaS).

In fact this very website is solely relying on such an SaaS. It is reached via a URL https://lazure2.wordpress.com/ which means that it is supported by one of the leading content creation and consumption SaaS’ called WordPress.com from Automattic Inc. The subdomain name of lazure2 is just for making this website distinquishable among all other WordPress.com websites which are more than 15 millions.

WordPress.com has roots in the first decade of the 21st century of internet hosting. For this reason it is possible to not only track the trend of fundamental paradigm change towards cloud computing but also experience its simplest form by writing content on “Experiencing the Cloud” website.

We certainly may expect an exponential increase of more and more sophisticated SaaS’ written from the start for the cloud. We are tracking this trend as well.