Links for October 14th through October 15th

• How Are You Using iPad For Business?
• AT&T to Sell Apple's iPad to Businesses of All Sizes
  Two items: (a.) hey, iPads for enterprise use – they still don't say what that means exactly, what features, and, (b.) on the PR-meta level, check out a Forrester BLOG post being used as the analyst reference, not just a quote.
• Email is top cloud application in Europe
  "European cloud users see email as the first technology to be ported to the cloud, in stark contrast to North Americans who see software testing as the main reason to go down the cloud route."
• Which mobile platforms will fail?
  "The question of mobile OS market share should not be seen in isolation, but as part of a bigger picture in which cloud+device dominates computing. Microsoft has an opportunity here, because in theory it can offer smooth migration to existing Microsoft-platform businesses, taking advantage of their investment – or lock-in – to Active Directory, Exchange, Office and .NET. In the cloud that makes Microsoft BPOS and Azure attractive, while a mobile device with great support for Exchange and SharePoint, for example, is attractive to businesses that already use these platforms." — makes you think Microsoft should give away WP7 phones for "free" with each BPOS account.
• AT&T to sell iPads direct to the enterprise
  I wonder what the functionality being sold will be, or if the fact that it's an iPad is enough.
• We’re excited to become a part of LEWIS PR – Page One PR – Public Relations and Social Media in Silicon Valley
• IT shifts to the cloud, anecdote by anecdote
• Perhaps I am getting a bit older and a bit more grumpy. . .
  "but Twitter and Facebook are not resulting in new, or even deeper, relationships for me…"
• Enterprise Startups survey | Socialwrite.com
  Help Jevon collect some experiences on enterprise software startups.
• How Intel clawed huge profits from the global downturn
  Jon Stokes has some good zingers: "In a nutshell, the cloud is to the server room what the temp worker is the full-time employee, and Intel is now a major temp provider." & "But then, the waste really hit the rotating blades, and some of those who were planning to ride it out panicked and just started cutting off limbs for food. "
• Cloudharmony: KT’s cloud faster than Amazon, Rackspace | Cloudscaling
  Fast benchmark on one of the clouds Cloudscaling built.
• Keen On… with Sir Martin Sorrell, CEO WPP: Free = Fail (TCTV)
  Pretty good, actually.
• IBM’s Cloud Effort Shifts from Workloads to Industries
  More on IBM selling cloud and SaaS to telcos. The question is, can they do it cheap enough?
• For Google, Android Means Keeping More Revenue And Other Value-Adds Are Possible
  A little bit of insight into how Android plugs into Google revenue.
• Getting Started – Making AJAX Applications Crawlable – Google Code
  Man, the URL is really going downhill if putting "#!" in it is considered OK.
• Views From The Porch: 2010 AIA Austin Homes Tour Recap
• U.S. Teen Mobile Report: Calling Yesterday, Texting Today, Using Apps Tomorrow | Nielsen Wire
  Info on US teens txting, voice, and data usage. Also on older segments as a reference. They still do a lot of voice: 646 minutes a month on average.
• Tech hiring up almost 50 percent since 2009, Dice says
  They say tech job postings are up 46%: "Total tech jobs, including full-time, contract, and part-time positions, rose from 51,439 to 70,798 in the 12 months ending Oct. 1. Next month's numbers are shaping up to be even stronger, with Dice already reporting 74,089 tech jobs on Thursday of this week."
• IBM to help telcos become cloud providers
  Selling a cloud and SaaS (applications to resell) to telcos: "The telcos are desperate to find new business models and new source of revenue so they are embracing this cloud opportunity like no other opportunity I've seen them embrace in the last 15 years."
• IBM floats new CloudBurst stacks
  Starting at just $220,000.
• Google money machine tops self by 32%
  Google's cash flow is astonishing: $7.29 billion this past quarter, $2.17 of that profit.
• Mozilla Names SAP Mobile Exec as New CEO
• RedLaser Now Scans QR Codes
  Trying to figure out what to do with this QueCat 2.0 stuff.
• UPCRC Illinois – Parallel Computing Research – News
  I commented on this for a story.

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