TrendWatch: Mobile Megatrends 2012

Anywhere you look, the mobile revolution cannot be missed: The rapid rise of the mobile, smartphone shipments growing in leaps and bounds, the (ongoing) patent wars (See also: Apple's Patent Claims), and the quest for the next killer app. These and questions about 'what's next' and how do businesses catch this wave are on top of every individual and business' mind.

Surely, there's a lot going on everyday, and with innovation at it's peak, it's still not an easy road for making your millions out there. Well, the folks at VisionMobile | SlashData, a leading telco eco-systems and handset maker analyst firm, has put together a great stack of information (in the presentation below), that is a must see for all strategists - to understand what. how and why the leaders in the market are where they are today.

Mobile megatrends 2012 from SlashData

[Infographic] Apple's Patent Claims

Well, so Apple had a major victory of sorts over Samsung, as it won a court fight over claims of copying and infringing it's patents. While a lot has been written and analyzed about this, and analysts and the millions of iPhone and Android phone users have all types of views and opinions, it would sure be nice to know what these patents are all about.

Well, the folks at Thomson Reuters have put together a simple and wonderful infographic about this stuff and we thought, there's no better way to appreciate this!
Note: It seems over time, the original infographic is no longer accessible at Thomson Reuters, but we were able to locate it, and have updated this post to point to that infographic.

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[Infographic] Amazon Web Services - Behind the scene

Source: https://www.domo.com/data-never-sleeps

The web is growing everyday, and so is the data - even more rapidly than ever (see left): More than 2 million searches on Google a minute, 48 hours of video upload on YouTube per minute, 47,000 app downloads on Apple per minute...

These are mind boggling numbers, and the rapid rise and penetration of mobiles on our planet has only accelerated this. But, if you take a moment and ponder, a lot of this has been made possible by one emergent technology: cloud computing.

Cloud Computing is huge, and there's a lot of hype about this, and there's a lot of work that's currently underway. Amazon Web Services (AWS), one of the pioneers in this space, has been leading the pack in a number of ways through their Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) services.

So, how big is the Amazon Web Services Cloud? Just as interpreting, processing and even storing huge data is an interesting challenge, and require new tools and techniques. Likewise, thanks to Infographics - a visualization of information for convenient understanding, this can be a tad easier, thanks to the team of thecloudinfographic.com. Here's a nice infographic to understand the size of the AWS Cloud.

Mission Mars: 7 Minutes of Terror, and a decade of Curiosity!

August 5, 2012. This date will be forever etched in the history of mankind for successfully commissioning NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover - a never before feat of space engineering. Even if you're not a regular space explorer, the marvel of sending the heaviest (so far) unmanned spacecraft to one of humankind's "favorite" planets, is no small feat.

You can find a plethora of stuff about this on the various news and technology forums and channels. We thought, as followers of great technology, it's only fair to take a bow to this marvel of space technology.

If you want a quick re-cap of the big, landing event, check this news video, but if you'd like to experience the fantastically animated vision of what Rover's going to be doing while it's out there, you got to watch this:

Trends: Future of Glass Technology

For most of us, glass is a pretty mundane object - we see it all around us, from the moment we wake up, to the moment we switch off for the night. But, for some others, it's their business. And, here's an interesting look at how glass (technology) is shaping up for the future!