February 2, 2012
Is Google planning to make Arora CEO at Motorola Mobility? On The VAR Guy, Dave Courbanou looks at the possibility. “If Arora’s CEO appointment comes to pass, it’s worth wondering how fast Motorola Mobility will start building and producing pure-Google phones with hardware and software integration. I would set a target somewhere inside the first half of 2013. It’s also worth asking whether Google would proudly proclaim these phones were ‘built by Motorola Mobility’ or try and hide that fact,” he writes. What’s your opinion?
Textbook of the Future: The hardware On ZDNet, Jason Perlow looks at teaching solutions for the future. “So BYOD is probably not doable. What you want is a standardized piece of hardware that is durable, is fairly inexpensive, is easily managed from the educator’s perspective for controlling what is learned in and out of the classroom, and has zero value from a theft perspective. The device needs to be brick-able by the management software if stolen,” he writes. What’s your opinion?
Facebook IPO: Boom or bubble? On The Register, Andrew Orlowski provides some analysis. “The reason the Facebook flotation is different from yourfunny.co.ck, or anything conceived by a Shoreditch “leisure startup”, is that it already has a large and devoted audience. When you can reliably draw a large crowd every day, you should be able to make some money. This is the one constant between the medieval minstrel and the modern media company – it’s the same business proposition,” he writes. What’s your opinion?