News to know: iPhone OS 4.0; iAds, Salesforce, 3D tech, private cloud
An introduction to iPhone OS 4.0, as well as the new iAds mobile advertising program, Salesforce's expansion of Chatter and an update on 3D technology lead today’s themes. You can get the day's rolling postsvia Twitter,RSS, oremail.
Here are the key themes for Friday, April 9, 2010:
Apple has captured the headlines again, this time to introduce the new brain of the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad: the iPhone. But as Larry Dignan points out, most of this is new for Apple, not smartphones.
Apple did launch something new: a mobile advertising program called iAds, It raises some questions about Apple's role in the world of advertising and how much revenue it can generate for the company.
Also see: Android is the only potential competitor for iPad
Salesforce also had some news of its own, the expansion of its beta of the Chatter application. The company also pitched a new concept, Cloud 2, which features social enterprise applications. The first app to watch out for: FinancialForce.
What is it going to take to bring 3D technology to the living room? Well, the right technology and right prices are key - but so is the right type of content. Sports television - from The Masters to the World Cup - could play a big role of the adoption. John Morris shares his own experiences with the future of television.`
These days, it's all you hear: cloud, cloud, cloud. But even that's becoming more complex. Now, along comes "private cloud computing." Dana Gardner argues that that idea is what could nudge enterprise closer to IT as a service,
Today's images come from iPhone OS photo galleries: