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Krishnan Subramanian
When Google released its PaaS offering called Google App Engine, it attracted Web 2.0 developers in big numbers but it didn't gain much traction like Amazon Web Services or Microsoft platform. In fact, in May 2010, Network World had an article quoting a Forrester Survey which put the percentage of d
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Krishnan Subramanian
Mike Arrington has made a post talking about a possible acquisition of Skype by Cisco. According to him there are talks to acquire Skype at a price near $5 Billion before they complete the IPO process.Cisco has made an offer to acquire Skype before they complete their IPO process, says one of our mo
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Krishnan Subramanian
Google yesterday updated its Google Mobile app by adding push notifications for Gmail and Google Calendar. The idea is to notify the users about new mail or calendar events through push notifications on top of Google Mobile app and when the users click to view them, they will be taken to the we
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Krishnan Subramanian
Acquia, the company behind commercial Drupal offerings, has selected Gluster open source storage platform for their hosting needs. Gluster storage platform offers an easy way to manage data on commodity servers within a single namespace. This is the kind of storage solutions SaaS startups want to ha
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Krishnan Subramanian
Yesterday, Google and Verizon announced a joint policy proposal to regulate the internet. In short, they have called on FCC to assume control over the internet and regulate it to keep it "open". Even though I am supportive of any proposal to keep the internet open, this pact between Google and Veri
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Krishnan Subramanian
As the workforce becomes more distributed, organizations are faced with daunting tasks with respect to workforce management, security, etc.. Location services and SaaS come very handy for organizational managers to manage their mobile workforce in a centralized way. As more and more organizations of
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Krishnan Subramanian
Techcrunch has a post talking about the possible demise of Google Wave, its much hyped real time collaboration platform. Even though it is not completely unexpected, it is a bit of a shocker for me personally.Maybe it was just ahead of its time. Or maybe there were just too many features to ever al
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Krishnan Subramanian
When talking about the capping of data for iPad by AT&T, I argued that such restrictions presents opportunity for others in the market to innovateWhen AT&T unexpectedly announced its plan to kill the unlimited plan with a spin on the savings for most of their data plan users, many in the t
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Krishnan Subramanian
Amazon has publicly debunked the story about Eli Lilly moving out of Amazon Web Services. In a Twitter message posted by Amazon CTO Werner Vogels, Amazon categorically state that Eli Lilly is still their customer.For those following this anonymous source story this morning: Eli Lilly is still very
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Krishnan Subramanian
Last week when Twitter announced that they are building a datacenter I wrote a post wondering why companies move out of the cloud as they grow big. Even though I don't have many examples of startups building their own datacenters after growing big, many folks in the startup world told me that they
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