Mobility and the Cloud
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Mobile Computing
The Cloud
So what’s the difference?• The Internet (or Web)
– “smart devices” on the outside• Data and applications
– “dumb” network on the inside• Network and connections
• The Cloud– “dumb devices” on the outside
• Thin clients, fewer applications
– “smart everything” on the inside• Data, applications, service combinations• Network and connections
What I’m going to cover
• The Cloud
• Technology Adoption Cycle
• Some “cloud” services
• Benefits & drawbacks
• Mobility – Mobile Computing
Technology Adoption Cycle
Some Cloud Services
• Backups – Net Rescue
• Music - iTunes
• Accounting - Xero
• Friends - Facebook
• Bookmarks - Digg
• Email - Gmail
• Shared Data - Dropbox
Friends in the Cloud
• MySpace
• Google+
www.pixlr.com
VoIP• Small Office option
– $55/mth + $20/mth per handset (example only)– 5 DDIs– 6,000 local minutes– 2,000 national minutes– 50 mobile minutes– 0800 number– Voicemail (delivery by email), call attendant, call recording
• Externally– One number and three extensions– Seamless hand offs
• Internally– Consultant/Manager: Carterton– Technical: Lower Hutt– Accounts: Wellington
www.simplyfree.co.nz
Benefits
• ubiquitous
• 24x7
• latest version all the time
• backed-up
• low entry cost – try before buy
• shared
Drawbacks
• privacy
• trust
• goes bust
• cost
• capture
• acquisition
• in NZ, bandwidth
From phone to computer
Mobile GPS
• Context
• Locality-based apps, info etc
Which do you choose?
• iPhone
• Android
• Windows