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Google Brings Hangouts In Gmail To India
Just before launching its latest general update to Google Hangouts, Google also recently announced that it is bringing its new group video chat tool to India.
Just like in other countries, Google is replacing its current
plugin-based Gmail video chat system with Hangouts in India, allowing
its users there to chat with up to 9 people at a time (or just have a
1:1 chat like before).
With today’s larger update, Google introduced a bandwidth slider that
allows users to switch of to adjust how much bandwidth they are using
for Hangout – something...
Google Now Uses Its Own WebP Format Instead Of PNGs In The Chrome Web Store
Google loves everything that makes the web faster. Given that images typically account for more than half of a web page’s size, it has now been working on its own WebP image format
for a few years. Using WebP, Google says, results in images that are
significantly smaller than those encoded in the far more popular PNG
format. After introducing the new format in Chrome, Picasa and Gmail in
2011, Google today announced that it has also started using...
Apple’s iPhone Sales Grow By As Much As 400% In 3 Months In India, But There’s A Huge Gap To Close
Apple’s next big growth market could be India – a country where it
has failed to find significant purchase with consumers up until this
point. The Economic Times (via @ScepticGeek)
is reporting that sales of Apple devices, with iPhones leading the way,
rose by between 300 and 400 percent in the past quarter. That growth,
identified by research firm IDC, is likely being propelled by Apple’s
distribution partnerships with Redington and Ingram Micro.
According to Convergence Catalyst founder Jayanth Kolla in
conversation with the Economic...
LinkedIn Shares Soar 19.2% In The Wake Of Impressive Earnings
Right after yesterday’s earnings, LinkedIn shares (NYSE:LNKD)
have popped 19.16 percent to 147.86. It is clearly linked to the
company’s earnings. Revenue is up 81 percent to $304 million and net
income is following the same trend.
Since going public, LinkedIn’s revenue has been steadily going up and
net income is finally catching up — compared to the previous quarter,
net income is up five times from $2.3 million to $11.5 million.
LinkedIn...
Google Integrates Third-Party Web Apps More Deeply Into Google Drive
Google just added
the equivalent of an app store to Google Drive that lets you find
Drive-enabled third-party apps like HelloFax, SlideRocket and the Open
Office Document Reader right from within the service. Once installed,
these apps now also live right in the Google Drive ‘Create’ menu. Until
now, users had to go through the Chrome Web Store to find Drive-enabled third-party apps.
As Google’s Nicolas Garnier writes this morning, the Drive...
Kera Adds Subtitle Option And Analytics To Its Guided, Interactive Web Tool Tutorials
Kera, a Toronto-based startup set to revolutionize the software
product demo space with guided tutorials that are interactive and live
on a site, instead of in a static video, has just launched new subtitle and captioning features,
as well as basic analytics to help websites using its tech track user
participation. This iteration on the company’s platform adds
considerably to its existing appeal, which has already attracted some
good early traction for the young startup.
What Kera does is
take the boring, bland walkthrough video of old...
How to Predict the Future (and How Not to)
Moody’s and Standard & Poor’s have just been charged with knowingly misrepresenting the credit risk
involved in some of the mortgage-backed securities they rated during
the run-up to the 2008 financial crisis. The agencies will resist,
saying that they simply erred in predicting the future, as anyone could
have.
But there were many who called the housing bubble correctly,
long before the collapse in 2008. Several economists had pointed out
that there was in fact an enormous housing bubble being created by
overheated home prices, and...
9 surprising reasons mobile apps get rejected from the Apple app store
Nat Friedman is CEO and co-founder of Xamarin
Apple’s App Store review process is designed to keep the app
ecosystem healthy and to protect users from low-quality or hostile apps.
And the system mostly works. But sometimes an app is rejected for
reasons you might not expect, and it can force developers to scramble to
either push back launch dates or even have to redevelop key features.
Before you head down that road, here are nine surprising reasons apps
get rejected by the App Store that you should consider before you
submit your...
Beware the Big Errors of ‘Big Data’
We’re more fooled by noise than ever before, and it’s because of a
nasty phenomenon called “big data.” With big data, researchers have
brought cherry-picking to an industrial level.
Modernity provides too many variables, but too little data per
variable. So the spurious relationships grow much, much faster than real
information.
In other words: Big data may mean more information, but it also means more false information.
Just like bankers...
Data Integration Ecosystem for Big Data and Analytics
In my article, “Data Integration Roadmap to Support Big Data and Analytics,”
I detailed a five step process to transition traditional ETL
infrastructure to support the future demands on data integration
services. It is always helpful if we have an insight into the end state
for any journey. More so for the data integration work that is
constantly challenged to hit the ground running.
There are two
major architectural changes that are...
MicroStrategy Raises the Ante on Mobile, Social and Cloud Innovation
MicroStrategy CEO Michael Saylor has a keen sense of where things
are headed. He sees mobile and social as the two drivers of a world
based largely in software. Last year I covered the announcements at the
MicroStrategy events in Amsterdam and the vision Saylor put forth in
his keynote speech. MicroStategy World 2013 last month finds the company
delving into such diverse areas as identity management, marketing
services...
The Big Three of Big Data: What to do
I watched a great video the other day by a colleague of mine, David Court.
You can see it below, but he nicely crystallizes the three things we
continually hear from our clients about what it takes to make big data
drive above-market growth.
1. Data – be creative when it comes to using internal and external data
2. Models – focus on developing models that predict and optimize
3. People – transform the organization with simple tools and effective training so that managers can take advantage of Big Data's insights.
I was particularly taken...
4 Habits of Highly Successful Job Seekers
Meet Jane.
Jane graduated college six months ago. She worked three internships
while in school, graduated with honors, and has sent her resume to
hundreds of companies. But, Jane is unemployed.
Meet Bob.
Bob also graduated college six months ago, no honors. Bob didn’t work
at any internships while in school and has never applied for a job, yet
Bob is employed. One day while he was playing basketball in a local
gym, the president of one of America’s largest auto manufacturers sees
Bob. The president has a company team and wants Bob to play...
Microsoft says no Office for iPad
In all the speculation that preceded Microsoft’s recent release of Office 2013,
one of the most hotly debated rumors was that Microsoft would be
announcing a version of Office for the iPad. Even with the debut of Microsoft’s Surface tablet, analysts said Microsoft couldn’t possibly afford to ignore the massive iOS user base.
They were wrong.
When asked point blank by Bloomberg Businessweek,
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer gave a terse answer to the question of when
we can expect an iPad version for Office: “I have nothing to say on
that topic....
The 1 Thing Every Business Executive Must Understand About Social Media
Social media is still in its infancy, and many business executives
still don't understand how to Ieverage it for their organizations, large
or small. They're too focused on the talking, and not focused enough on
the listening.When I speak, I often begin by asking my audience,
"How many of you know at least one executive who doesn't fully
understand the business value of Twitter?"
Sure enough, the entire audience raises their hands. Then I tell them about my experience in Las Vegas three years ago.
I
had been standing in line to check in at...
Gartner releases 2013 data warehouse Magic Quadrant
Stamford, CT-based analyst and market research firm Gartner released its annual data warehouse Magic Quadrant report Monday.
On the one hand, data warehousing (DW) and Big Data can be seen as
different worlds. But there's an encroachment of SQL in the Hadoop
world, and Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) data warehouse appliances
can now take on serious Big Data workloads. Add to that the number of
DW...
Oracle rebuffs MySQL security update criticisms
Oracle has defended the frequency of bug fixes for its popular open-source database MySQL, along with the information provided by the security-update process.
Tomas Ulin, vice president of MySQL engineering, said users are best
served by the degree of transparency and frequency of the database's
present critical-patch system.
"Our highest priority is to protect our users and customers and we
think that is best done by not providing exploits that are publicly
available," he said.
Ulin said customers can always ask for hot fixes for specific...
Big Analytics Rather Than Big Data
The past year has been dominated by Big
Data. What it might mean and the way you might look at it. The stories
have often revolved around Hadoop and his herd of chums. Vendors and
analysts alike have run away and joined this ever-growing and rapidly
moving circus. And yet, as we saw in our own EMA and 9sight Big Data Survey,
businesses are on a somewhat different tour. Of course, they are
walking with the elephants, but many so-called Big Data projects have
more to do with more traditional data types, i.e. relationally
structured,...
Forecasting Is Harder Than It Looks
Want to make weather forecasting look good? Compare it to
predicting the economy. So concludes an ABC News Australia story by
finance reporter Sue Lannin, entitled "Economic forecasts no better than a random walk."
The story covers a recent apology by the International Monetary Fund
over its estimates for troubled European nations, and an admission by the Reserve Bank of Australia that its economic forecasts were wide of the...
See the Future with Your CRM
We know that you’d like to see growth and improve your sales forecasting processes, and with the right CRM solution, you can.
Forecasting
is by no means a new tool that businesses use, but the digital
revolution means that the information that informs it and how it is
calculated can provide a much more accurate picture of what’s going to
convert down the line.
The Aberdeen Group’s 2012 ‘Better Sales Forecasting Through Process and...
Eyewitnesses Get It Wrong: An Argument for Data-Driven Decision Making
A nighttime murder took place in
1991 in Linwood, California. Half a dozen teenaged eyewitnesses picked a
man out of a lineup and he was eventually convicted. No gun was ever
found, no vehicle was identified, and no person was ever charged with
driving the vehicle.
For two decades, the convicted man – Francisco Carrillo – maintained his innocence. Eventually, forensic psychologist Scott Fraser
got involved. He reconstructed the crime scene with a focus on the
lighting. He convinced the judge that the eyewitnesses could not
possibly...
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