Colt lance l'offre Cloud Pack - convergence IT & Telecom sur le Cloud
Colt lance son offre Colt Cloud Pack qui a pour vocation d'offrir des servcices à valeur ajoutée (VAS) de convergence IT et Telecom sur le Cloud. Cette proposition est faite en collaboration avec Microsoft. Elle est portée en initialemement France et sera proposée dans d'autres pays Européens bientôt.
Dans sa mouture acutelle, l'offre Cloud Pack met à disposition des entreprises les modules permettant d'accéder :
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à des serveurs virtuels (pour y mettre les applications métiers)
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au back office de Microsoft (exchange, sharepoint, lync)
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d'accéder à l'internet professionnel haut débit + VoIP (garantie de service 99,99%)
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au front office de Microsoft (office 2010)
Offre Cloud Pack telle qu'elle est présentée va rapidement évoluer afin que les clients puissent choisir des "packages" clé en main ou construire la solution qui corresponde à leurs besoins spécifiques.
Présidentielles 2012 : les réseaux sociaux et la bataille du buzz
Rien de nouveau sous le soleil. Aux dernières élections présidentielles françaises, nous avions déjà vu une utilisation intensive de l'internet. Il y avait eu alors une vraie bataille de blogueurs sur les forums et chaque candidat avait un site internet par lequel il était possible de relayé des vidéos, des programmes, etc. L'email était aussi utilisé pour communiquer activement à une base d'électeurs potentiels assez large. Cependant, il n'y avait pas eu alors trop de buzz au sujet de l'un ou de l'autre des candidats.
Toutefois, en 2012 il semblerait que la majorité des candidats ait bien intégré l'importance des réseaux sociaux et du concept de viralité des messages. En effet une proportion plus importante de gens est maintenant active sur facebook (principalement). On voit déjà des hommes et des femmes de droite comme de gauche qui usent et abusent de twitter ou de facebook. On retrouve donc presque tous les candidats sur facebook et sur twitter. Ils ont aussi des sites internet avec des fonctionnalités dites virales...
Une autre tendance notable est l'utilisation de la vidéo comme média chaud. Les anglais disent : "an image is worth a thousand words". Ceci explique cela.
Pour ces raisons et parce que les réseaux sociaux sont d'une redoutable efficacité pour aider à la diffusion/propagation d'idées, je pense que le vainqueur de l'éléction 2012 en France sera celui qui aura su (en plus d'avoir des qualités personnelles incontestables) le mieux utiliser les nouveaux média à son profit. Il est donc possible que les réseaux sociaux soient le "king maker" de l'élection présidentielle 2012 à la république française et ceci parce qu’un candidat aura mieux su faire passer ses idées qu'un autre ou parce qu'il aura gagné la bataille du buzz.
Avis personnel : un candidat sérieux à l'élection doit s'entourer de personnes professionnelles et extrêmement compétentes pour mettre œuvre une stratégie digitale et virale gagnante.
Est-ce le cas pour tous?
Kindle Books Now Outselling Hardcovers + $1bn revenue generated from Mobile devices
Leading online retailer has passed 2 interesting milestones. In a statement, Amazon says, :
- “over the past three months, for every 100 hardcover books Amazon.com has sold, it has sold 143 Kindle books. Over the past month, for every 100 hardcover books Amazon.com has sold, it has sold 180 Kindle books.”
- "customers are now ordering more than $1 billion worth of products per year via mobile devices".
Do you think mobile commerce is the next big thing?
If so, what sort of goods do you think would be most retailed on mobile devices?
5 Things Small Business Owners Should Do Today Online
5 Things Small Business Owners Should Do Today Online
Start a blog – I can’t think of any simpler website technology to start and master, and there are cheap and free platforms readily available. Why a blog? Because they’re easy to create, because they’re easy to update, because they encourage repeat visits, and because you can use them in many flexible ways. Need a good website address (URL)? Pick a name out at Ajaxwhois.com, which lets you search many variations at the same time. Then, click through to buy the domain at GoDaddy.com, and then decide if you want to buy hosting there, or from another site. The company Bloghost.me, run by my friend Andy Quayle, offers $10/year hosting for WordPress blogs. I think that’s pretty reasonable. You?
Start listening – People are talking about you. Find out where they are and who they are. When you’re done with that, start finding new business opportunities. People tweeting or blogging about being in your neck of the woods? Reach out, if it makes sense. Free advice on how to grow bigger ears.
Try Twitter OR Facebook – Let’s not rush things. Facebook has many more users, but it’s a bit harder to find customers, prospects, partners and colleagues. Twitter is easier to use and faster to connect with people, but there are far fewer users on there today. I’ll let you choose. If you go with Facebook, make a personal account under your own name, and then start a fan page for your business.
Get the word out – If you’re going to spend time building these social sites, let’s presume that you want more people to contact you and interact with you through them. Print business cards with the company name, and/or the request for people to join your fan page or follow you on Twitter. Extra points if you give them a social-media-tool-only discount of some kind.
Try moving the needle – now lets really get crazy. See if you can fill the place up with social-media minded folks. Okay, this won’t work for every business, but don’t be too quick to count out the idea. Let’s try inviting them to a store-only special event, or let’s give them a discount code. You know, the stuff you already know how to do. Any difference in the results? See if you can do some kind of really special one-day-only push, and what that brings to you.
There’s obviously much more to it than just starting and doing, or is there? One way that small businesses get all confused and thrown for a loop is by feeling a strong sense of analysis paralysis, or that notion that they should be using all the tools right out of the gate.
The reason I started with a blog is that it will give instant search juice to the organization. It doesn’t mean your company will rise to the very top listing right away, and there’s so much more to it than that, but starting with any presence is better than having none.
source: http://ow.ly/pVVdGood analysis on Android as it stands today - Fall Back to the Summer of 2009 Google Android Predictions:
Android Roadmap Status:
- 5 of the planned 18 Android phones will debut this Summer: PARTIALLY DONE
- Android to Dominate in China Illegal or Otherwise: PARTIALLY DONE
- Android Market Overhaul - Donut (1.6) Android release: PARTIALLY DONE
- Android App-vertising Takes Off: STARTED
- Android Donut Will be Released by the End of the Summer: DONE
- The myTouch 3G Will Compete with the iPhone 3GS this Summer: NOT DONE
- Android Will Outspeed the iPhone 3GS: NOT DONE
- Flash Will be Android Ready AFTER the Summer: PARTIALLY DONE
- Android Sites Further Collaboration: DONE
Read the details: http://www.googleandblog.com/fall-2009-android-predictions/31222/
credits to: http://www.googleandblog.com
Geek Alert :) Android 1.6 Platform is out - Discover the highlights in the video:
Android is powering Smart phones for all.
It seems like Google is saving version 2.0 for a more significant upgrade. Anyway, find out what's coming in Android 1.6 here. A range of new Android phones will be released in the months ahead, most of which will be powered by Android 1.6. .
A complete list of new user features and more for Android 1.6 can be found here, including improved camera/camcorder software performance, Android Market updates, and a range of improvements and additions to the operating system.
Read more: http://developer.android.com/sdk/android-1.6-highlights.html
Internet Tablet - Apple talks about it, Archos has done it. #archos5 See the pictures:
The company Archos makes portable entertainment gadgets that often feel like the future. For instance, it started making media players with big screens,video support, and TV output back when your average MP3 player was...an MP3 player. It announced the Archos 5 Internet Tablet on the cutting edge of multiple trends: tablets, Android-powered devices, and PC-like devices that aren't PCs in the traditional sense.
Touch screen with 800 by 480 resolution enough pixels to display typical Web pages with less need for zooming than on an iPhone or other more pocketable device. It's available in versions with up to 32GB of flash memory, and chunkier hard-drive based ones with up to 500GB of disk space.
It runs Google's Android-an operating system. Archos performed a fair amount of customization to the OS's interface, resulting in something that is recognizably Android (it has widgets and a slide-out drawer of apps) but which has been reconfigured for a higher-resolution display. Archos has also launched its own software store, which it's calling AppsLib; it's debuting with only a handful of apps that have been customized for the 5, but the company says it's going to work hard to ramp up the selection.
The device includes 802.11 a/g/n Wi-Fi and GPS, but not 3G broadband (although Archos says that may come along eventually).
This note is a summary of Harry McCracken founder and editor of Technologizer. For more smart takes on technology, visit Technologizer.com.
See more from Archos: http://archos.com/
