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Cole Brodman - CMO and EVP, T-Mobile USA presented at GigaOm Mobilize.
The one thing that caught my eye is 75% of devices sold by T-Mobile are smartphones and 90% are Android.
This situation is most likely the result of the lack of the iPhone on T-Mobile network. One result of this situation is that Google probably spends a lot of time with T-Mobile.
Jonathan Carson from Nielsen shared some insights (numbers) that they have found studying the Smartphone and Tablet market.
TABLETS AND SMARTPHONES BY THE NUMBERS
The growing popularity of smartphones and tablets has opened up new opportunities for mobile content and apps – and raises critical questions, as well. Do different platforms and devices require different monetization strategies or does it depend on which demographic group you are trying to reach? How do different kinds of consumers respond to mobile ads? How much are consumers willing to pay for various types of content? How effective are mobile ads? These questions and more are revealed by audience research giant, The Nielsen Company.
Speakers:Jonathan Carson - GM, Digital, Nielsen
Here is a slide that shows the strength of the tablet in Books, TV Shows, Magazines, and Movies. Helps to explain why Amazon must ship their own Tablet device to dominate Books and Magazines. And, their move into TV and Movie streaming.
Here is some data on Top 50 Android apps.
But don't think that being in the top 50 is easy. 1 in 5 apps in the July top 50 were not in the June top 50.
Jay Fry wrote this tweet at
RT @elieljohnson: @olof_s the user is the OS, privacy is a currency, digital --> physical, mashup economy needs orchestrators #MobilizeConf
Here is the talk
CAN INVISIBLE ALSO BE AMAZING? DESIGNING FLUID AND CONNECTED EXPERIENCES
Can we fall in love with things we can't see? As the bond between mobility and the cloud increases, we will need to design invisible and seductive service experiences. Device-to-cloud interactions will yield new products that will adapt to device capabilities and context. But as bright and attractive as the future might look, we have to consider the ethics of money-making in this new age. Who will own user data, and is pushing advertising going to ruin user experience? This and more is covered by leading design firm, Fjord.
Speakers:Olof Schybergson - CEO, Fjord
And the slide with the 4 takeaways.
CRN has an article that discusses The Michael Dell difference.
No CEO has been more engaged and fired up recently about making gains with the channel than Dell Founder, Chairman and CEO Michael Dell.Dell, an industry icon who pioneered the direct sales model for the PC business, has remade himself and his company over the last four years into a charged-up, channel-centric partner. In the process, Dell himself has become his company’s No. 1 channel advocate.
What caught my eye is the focus on the channel and data center solutions.
Dell’s channel conversion didn’t happen overnight. Michael Dell and Greg Davis, the company’s global channel chief, have been building the channel effort one partner at a time, and Dell himself has played an active role in that channel sales effort, reaching out to partners directly and helping them close deals. The Dell channel business now amounts to about 33 percent of the company’s $62 billion in annual sales. And Dell sees it growing to 50 percent.
The fact is Dell has grown its channel business by being a consistent and predictable partner with a channel-neutral sales compensation model aimed at incenting its direct sales force to work hand in hand with partners. That’s not to say that there are still not issues with channel conflict. Many partners want to see more joint sales engagement between Dell direct and partners. And if Dell starts opening enterprise customer doors with data center solutions partners, it could prove to be a huge windfall for the company.
Michael Dell gets it that in order to scale he needs partners. A direct sales force has difficulty scaling.
Partners that decide to take on Dell as a partner can be sure that they will find in Dell himself a passionate, channel-savvy leader that gets their business and the power of delivering solutions -- hardware, software and services -- to customers, and is willing to get his hands dirty helping them in the sales trenches. Michael Dell gets the channel. And he gets IT. That’s a lot more than can be said of many CEOs in this business.
It is amazing to think that Michael Dell started with a direct sales model, and now he is focusing on growing his channel.
Back when Mike Manos worked at Microsoft the both of us went to a Microsoft Technology Conference in Barcelona and met Frank Koch, one of the early believers in Green Data Centers. It's been four years since Frank made the early efforts, and I just saw this press release between Microsoft and Samsung.
Microsoft and Samsung Collaborate to Enable Optimized Performance and Power Efficiency for Server Systems
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Frank Koch, infrastructure architect and Green IT lead of Microsoft Germany summarizes the joint efforts: "The world notices a dramatic increase of energy usage in data centers with more and more people leveraging their IT and moving to a private cloud. With the innovative memory modules from Samsung, we do not only measure higher throughput and performance for our hyper-v cloud solutions but a lower power consumption of the involved server systems, too. This is a great win-win situation for everyone."
The specific power savings was 15% for a 30 watt per system decrease.
Samsung's 30nm-class Green DDR3 was tested in eight gigabyte registered dual inline memory modules, installed on server systems running virtualized environments with the Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise operating system. They delivered power conservation levels of up to 15 percent for a 30-watt per system decrease, compared to systems using 50nm-class DDR3.
This gives a good reason to reach out to Frank and get more specifics on the energy efficiency projects he is working on.
