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Shortages of the ultra-popular Nintendo Wii game console may do what Microsoft Xbox 360 and Sony PS3 have not been able to do in the competitive marketplace. They may give the two companies trying to catch the Wii a leg up for the holidays. Nintendo "said it cannot keep up with demand and that U.S. consumers should expect shortages this holiday season," according to The New York Post. The paper adds that "just last month the Wii became the best-selling console over Microsoft's popular XBox 360 and Sony's ailing PlayStation 3, pulling a virtual hat trick by making the Wii the must-have device in North America, Europe and Japan."...
"Back when I was on the Architecture Committee, the developers never listened to me. But, now that I'm Enterprise Architect, I'll show them. I'll put in so many governance policies that they won't know what hit them. And there's nothing they can do about it - because these rules are good for our company." OK, I exaggerate a bit. I know a lot of great enterprise architects that would never think this way. But, I wanted to illustrate my point: In life, the most effective policies are supported by both carrots and sticks. Speeding on the road? Your insurance company gives you price breaks if you don't get caught, and the government gives you fines if you do. Carrot and stick. So, what does this have to do with SOA governance?...
I’ve spent most of this century (doesn’t that sound cool?) working in IT and am amazed how often you hear someone say “Users are so stupid.” Well, here’s my take on that. As a project manager with a functional background, the most successful implementations were those where we had enough time to carefully assess users’ real needs and build an easy-to-use, practical, intuitive GUI (graphical user interface) along with providing very clear, simple, user-oriented training sessions and documentation. The user is the customer and it’s our job to help them get a system (and implementation) that works for them...
Enterprise-quality. Enterprise-level. These days the word “Enterprise” has a lot of cachet, and it has nothing to do with the reputation of a certain starship, either. Once upon a time, “enterprise solutions” were industrial-strength, scalable, highly reliable solutions for the largest organizations. Lately, though, “enterprise solutions” have, in my mind, come to mirror the worst features of large corporations, rather than the best. In short, they’ve become bloated, slow, clumsy, bureaucratic and needlessly complex. Not to mention “if you’ve got to ask you can’t afford it” expensive. Slap the word “enterprise” in front of something and it becomes an instant calmative for worried managers who are looking for “guidance” and “best practices”. But so often it’s nothing more than a word...
Propelled by end-user demand, gaming is growing quickly as an increasing number of Indian consumers take advantage of wireless mobility to enjoy entertainment on the go. “India’s mobile gaming market will touch about $336m by 2009, ...
We have announced the Feb Event of MoMo Bangalore. We ran into a bit of trouble when our scheduled speaker backed out due to personal commitments. After frantically looking for another one we found Naveen R of Tonse Telecom. Tonse Telecom is one of the few Market Research firms specializing in India. They recently released a report on WiFi Market in India. Content Sutra had covered it earlier this month. Naveen's talk will cover this report. We had kept Demo's as a backup if we do not find a replacement speaker. But we have had an enthusiastic response. So we are thinking of regularizing this in our events. An open door policy for anyone who wants to demo his product/service. It only has to related to Mobility and/or Wireless.
Winterspeak reader Newley sent me a nice article about cell phone usage in India. Even in rural villages they understand that fancy features like digital cameras just drain battery life, which is a more important feature. Lalid Kishore, 36, said he was shopping for his sixth phone in two years, after having problems with some and trading in others for new features. Kishore said he wasn't in the market for the newest camera phone, though, because the camera would weaken the battery. I saw Jan Chipchase from Nokia talk about his mobile phone research at TED and it was very interesting
