News

• Still Part of the GM Fam­ily, OnStar not for Sale
• Global Patient Mon­i­tor­ing Mar­ket Fore­casted to Exceed $8 Bil­lion by 2015
• Smart Phone Adop­tion Dri­ving Mobile Bank­ing Industry
• 21Mobile Cloud Com­put­ing Sub­scribers to hit 1 Bil­lion by 2014
• Iridium’s Pre­ma­ture Entry Results in an Over­due IPO
• Raytheon Works to Enhance Iridium’s Com­mu­ni­ca­tion System
• New Fund­ing and New Part­ners, Glob­al­Star chooses Quake Global
• Cal­i­for­nia Insur­ance Com­mis­sioner Issues PAYD Regulations

Inter­view

An inter­view with Lou Gilles, Senior Prod­uct Man­ager at DriveCam.

Insight

Our review of Cloud Com­put­ing Con­fer­ence 2009

• John Igoe, Dir Adv Svc Tech — Dell, uses their adop­tion of Sales­force as an exam­ple of advntgs & adop­tion of cloud com­put­ing. Interesting.
• John Igoe nailed it: “Key to Cloud adop­tion is per­son­al­iz­ing the ser­vices”. Worked for OnStar.
• Peter Cof­fee, Dir Plat­form Research, Sales­force — pro­vided the best quote so far “the Cloud affords success”.
• Peter Cof­fee, Sales­force — an incred­i­ble evan­ge­list for cloud com­put­ing. Impos­si­ble to lis­ten to him with­out get­ting excited.
• Deloitte, Accen­ture, Ernst & Young, etc. hold the keys to the direc­tion of Cloud Com­put­ing… ver­ti­cal vs horizontal.
• Alyssa Henry, Dir Ama­zon Web Svc — inter­est­ing insight how Cloud Com­put­ing Svc devel­oped as a sub­set of their biz model. 13 yrs in.
• Speaker Woody Pewitt, Tech­nol­ogy Evan­ge­list for Microsoft. Kaizen pre­sen­ta­tion ski very much appreciated.
• Microsoft’s Azure plat­form designed to max­i­mize cloud com­put­ing capa­bil­i­ties, while try­ing to catch up to Sales­force & Amazon