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Kindle Simple beats iPad at State Department. NYOD. Amazon as enterprise mobility vendor. Or How much functionality is too much functionality?

Kindle Simple beats iPad at State Department. NYOD. Amazon as enterprise mobility vendor. Or How much functionality is too much functionality?

By James Governor on June 12, 2012

Tweet I came across a fascinating story today, linked to by the Bacon Queen – U.S. State Department chooses Amazon’s Kindle over Apple’s iPad. The article is worth quoting at length. Today Amazon agreed to a no-bid, $16.5 million contract with the U.S. State Department to provide 2,500 Kindle Touches for the government’s overseas language-education programs. The document released […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged BYOD, mobile development

I, for one, welcome our new Android forking overlords

I, for one, welcome our new Android forking overlords

By James Governor on January 27, 2011

At RedMonk we don’t think forking is a bad thing. On the contrary it enables innovation through fast iteration and cross fertlisation of technology and ideas. Forking allows for a biological metaphor for systems design. As Stephen explains: Bacteria – viruses too – evolve more quickly than do humans. If you’re reading this, that should […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged android, apple, Dell, Froyo, Gingerbread, google, Honeycomb, iOS, iPad, mobile development, redmonk, Streak, Tablets

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