Showing posts with label Future. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Future. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Mobile Applications And Its Future Trends

Mobile applications are in great demand today. Most operating systems have come up with their own app stores and have revved up competition too.

Research giant Gartner published in the recent report that in the coming trends for mobile applications, money transfer would top the list of priorities while others were Mobile Payment, Near Field Communication and Location based Services. Mobile Search followed soon after followed by Mobile Internet and browsing, Health checkup through mobile, Advertising, SMS and instant messaging and music. There are trends related search engine optimization which are backed up by some other reports as an identifiable trend with marketers. Over the years, the picture of the mobile market is going to change drastically as virtually mobiles nowadays sport dual core processors as hardware which came up just 2-3 years back for laptops!

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Mobile to enterprise software is also a good trend which will come up drastically, as mobile workers seek to sync their sales orders with enterprise ERP systems. Most product companies who provide CMS or other applications also feature a version which is compatible with a smartphone. Emails are probably the most popular applications today in a mobile. A new class of apps is in the reckoning which will be compatible and connected with ERP to CRM solution to HR modules.

Mobile devices are nowadays morphed using cloud and virtualization. A single device will soon be used as a mobile phone, still/video camera, credit card, location device, gaming device, music player etc. Cloud infrastructure coupled with virtualization is necessary for morphing. Form factor is also needed.

Mobile games are also in demand and there are many types of games coming up and will become more and more complex and chances are that there would be many multiplayer games being played by many people in real time. Mobile personal assistants are PDAs in a new avatar. There would be multiple digital interfaces, and diverse security mechanisms. Chances are that it would be very difficult to remember and manage so many disparate set of systems. A new class of mobile applications will come and go every month and there would be different concepts in play too.

A mobile grid and cloud will be available for futuristic applications, for sure as most of the companies are moving towards the cloud. There are different communities now based on the cloud. Companies are sure to leverage the processing, memory as well as bandwidth or other requirements.

Mobile Applications And Its Future Trends

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Sunday, September 4, 2011

Computer Applications - What Does the Future Hold?

As the internet improves with more applications and services, many of the desktop applications are starting be replaced by online versions of the same thing. These replacements include office suites, photo management, editing, email, and basic programs that are used everyday. What will happen to applications in the future? Will they all be on the cloud?

The cloud versus non-cloud debate most likely is one of poor foresight. The reality is that applications will probably have more of a hybrid model. This means that there will be ways of using the same applications and tools through a browser while connected to the internet with some sort of offline mode to still continue to manage, edit, and use the needed tools.

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The concept of having to be 100% on the cloud isn't one that is needed and probably will not happen. There are backup services today that sync entire folders which can be accessed from multiple devices. Your data from these applications will be on your computers as well as backed up online at the same time. It is important to keep your data on your local machine so that you always have access to it no matter what. At times services can go down and connections could be lost. If you have your data, you can work with it regardless of any of these issues.

Google did a first attempt at this type of hybrid model with Gears but the program never really shaped up the way it could have been. With the upcoming HTML5 it will be much easier for there to be online and offline versions of web applications because of the way these new standards are being programmed.

Another huge benefit of this type of online software is that phones will be accessing the same data. This will allow users to continually be in check with all their documents and programs even on their cell phones. The more devices that can use the same applications and data, the easier it will be to keep everything that you use up to date.

Computer Applications - What Does the Future Hold?

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Sunday, August 28, 2011

Future Advances for Voice Recognition Applications

The future of voice and speech recognition is upon on, but where is this technology going and how will this help us in our daily lives, work or assist our government in becoming more efficient? Well, it is time to start discussing some of the potential future applications or 'killer aps' that are now possible or will be shortly, along with issues of funding the research forward.

We must consider how other complimentary Artificial Intelligence advances will hyper-advance Voice Recognition performance. If you have ideas or concepts for the future of Voice Recognition, we should talk. Below are just a few of the concepts that come to my mind while thinking on this subject today, perhaps you have some too. Indeed, there really is no end to the potential, and we are only limited by our imaginations.

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Today, in considering this question, I wrote down some potential industries and uses where these technologies will be needed and desire, which would warrant R and D expenditures. Some of these ideas are borrowed from general knowledge, articles, papers and/or think tank conversations, still others off the top of my head. These are merely just the natural progression and evolution of voice recognition. The bigger question is where do YOU see the voice recognition future - What say you?

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Oh and in case you think any of this is too way out in the future, look at this piece on Cell Phone Voice Recognition Interface for Consumers and then think on it:

http://www.technologyreview.com/Biztech/19698/?nlid=667

Future Advances for Voice Recognition Applications

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