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

• Facebook

• LinkedIn

• twitter

• MySpace

• Google+

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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

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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