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1. Tech Talk: Cloud Banter, spotQuant Associates L.P.
After the dot com boom technologists are touting cloud computing as the
next big thing in the world of internet. But the potential of cloud computing
is not limited to only internet based desktop applications. This is the era of
mobility and almost each and every desktop based application is now has a
mobile version available. Does this suggest that cloud computing could add a
new dimension to mobile computing? The answer is yes. A recent research
suggested that the mobile cloud computing market is expected to reach $9
billion by year 2014. Will the market be able to reach this point is in the
womb of future, but this figure clearly showed the potential of the
technology.
Now lets see how this technology is going to impact the future of mobility. At
present all the feature rich mobile applications are meant for high end smart
phones only. The market share of such phones is increasing but they will not
be able to capture majority of the share in next 3-5 years; majority of the
mobile handset market will still be dominated by low end and mid segment
mobile handsets. Handset manufacturers, mobile operators and other third
party developers want to sell their applications and services to all of their
customers irrespective of the type of handset their customers own; and here
comes the role of cloud based mobile services. The cloud will act as a
platform for feature rich applications, which otherwise, are incompatible to
run on low end mobile handsets.
I should talk about mobile computing for smart phones and low end phones
separately. First I talk about smart phones, how the user of smart phones
could be benefited out of cloud computing. I start with gaming as an
example; at present users are able to play single player games on mobile
and the entire game is installed/saved on the phone itself and if there is any
upgrade/bug fix of the game available from the provider s/he needs to
download the full game on his/her device; but with cloud computing in the
picture the entire game is on the server and as per the user’s request it
would be downloaded to his device and the state of the game will be saved
on the cloud or on any other server accessed through cloud server. It is very
much similar to the games we are familiar playing on gaming sites and social
networking sites like Facebook etc. Multi-player games would become a
reality for all the phones. These cloud services would be accessible through a
very small client which would access the catalog of services from the cloud.
Imagine your PC calendar which could be synced with your mobile calendar
and you are accessing your office collaborative MS project file through cloud
services and updating it through your mobile while outside your office
without actually opening your laptop machine and using remote login to
organization’s server. With the advent of mobile cloud computing it would

2. become possible to have entire desktop of your office PC to be available on
smart phone’s screen without installing any third party software on your
mobile handset.
Lets come to low end handsets and mobile cloud computing in general. A
low end handset user doesn’t have a picture editor or spreadsheet viewer on
his handset but with cloud as a platform to such services will facilitate not
only viewing but also editing of a spreadsheet through his/her mobile. Live
beaming of TV channels would become a reality for low cost handsets. With
cloud services user would be able to able to capture picture/video from his
mobile and upload it to the sites like youtube and flickr simultaneously.
Imagine a scenario where your are having a DTH (direct to home) set top
box at your home and your children are at home and you do not want them
to watch TV as their exams are near; you just access the DTH provider’s
cloud services and bar the TV programs and/or in another scenario you just
forgot to instruct your DTH set top box to record your favorite TV show and
now you access the cloud based services of your provider and instruct set
top box at your home to record your program.
In a nutshell I would say that a plethora of services will be available at our
finger tips without caring about the memory capacity of our mobile
handsets. With such services in offing the mobile cloud computing is having
a future for sure. The above mentioned scenarios are just show the potential
of cloud computing in mobility domain. It is just the tip of the iceberg. Just
wait and let the cloud bring the rain of services.
SpotQuant Associates L.P
www.spotquant.com
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I will write about the various technology on which I worked and I learned
during previous years. Since I have worked on variety of domains like;

3. mobility, POS, web applications, cloud computing, home automation, digital
entertainment, telecom etc. so here I would explore these all and would
write how all/some of these technologies could be converged into one and
what could be a possible outcome of convergence. Some of the above
mentioned technologies have already been converged. I won’t be suggesting
a revolutionary technology of the future but I would write if some of these
are converged then how it is going to affect a common man’s life.