August 31, 2011
Not dead yet? Top three possibilities for HP’s webOS
The VAR Guy
Dave Courbanou gives his possibilities for webOS’ future.
“HP’s PSG group has the same ability as Apple to maintain vertical control over the device, so it could really re-enter the market in a whole new way, if it took the time to build something truly business-specific (and maybe even compete with the Cisco Cius).”
Samsung to rival Apple, BlackBerry in messaging: Doomed to fail?
ZDNet
Zack Whittaker reports on the messaging service.
“ChatON will include the regular features one would expect: sending text messages, images, video and group messaging. Frankly, besides the multi-platform edge, it has nothing that jumps out to me as anything one should get overly excited about.”
Subscribe to our hardware, says Brocade
The Register
Richard Chirgwin looks at the company’s “network subscription” model.
“The ‘network subscription’ pricing model, unveiled at VMWare’s cloud-fest VMWorld, works like this: Brocade will ship and install the switch into the data centre, but the customer will pay a monthly fee based on the number of ports enabled during the month.In other words, as cloud loads scale up or down (and network loads rise and fall with them), the number of ports the customer pays for will also rise and fall.”