Adriana Puchianu

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Back in the saddle again...

Adriana Puchianu posted an article on - Oct 2, 2010, 11:39 am
Yeah, I'm back, big as life and twice as ugly! So ...hum... it’s been a while, and many things have happened in the mean time... The good news is that the big guys are still there, squaring off the battle ground and keeping us happy and busy watching their moves. Just to recap some of the highli...
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A modern history of war...

Adriana Puchianu posted an article on - Dec 28, 2009, 4:58 am
Recent launches and acquisitions done by Google and Apple got the two companies stepping on each other's toes a lot more often than before. News of the increasing deterioration of the Google - Apple friendship started to heat up back in July, when Google Voice has been rejected by the App Store. Wha...
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Employing creative templates to create new mobile applications

Adriana Puchianu posted an article on - Dec 8, 2009, 3:42 pm
The present paper proposes an alternative method for developers to use to generate novel, innovative mobile applications that can succeed in an increasingly cluttered market. It does so by relying on literature focusing on innovation templates and new product development, particularly attribute depe...
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Google Goodies

Adriana Puchianu posted an article on - Dec 7, 2009, 6:04 pm
Tonight, Google launched some cool new search features at Google's Search Event. Tech Crunch has been covering the event live, leaking some of the new stuff to be expected from Google in the near future. One of these things is Google Goggles, which allows users to take a picture of an object and the...
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Is more less for the App Store?

Adriana Puchianu posted an article on - Nov 16, 2009, 5:13 pm
Recently Apple announced that  App Store reached 100,000 applications. While some claim this milestone has been reached earlier, it marks yet another stage in the impressive evolution of the App Store. Below is a graph showing the evolution of the App Store until it reached 1 billion downloads b...
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Apple and Microsoft tablets are looking sweeter than chocolate tablets

Adriana Puchianu posted an article on - Sep 30, 2009, 5:44 pm
If some of you are already starting to be bored just by hearing the word 'tablet', you'd better get used to it. Because it looks like this word is here to stay. And along with the word itself, frantically used in the last couple of months, come some pretty interesting devices... The product category...
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Flipping the latest news

Adriana Puchianu posted an article on - Sep 15, 2009, 10:33 am
A lot has happened since my last post. Apple's iPod centered event took place last Tuesday. As expected, not many huge surprises, with the exception perhaps of the fact that the iPod Touch didn't get a camera like the Nano model did. The blogosphere is still debating as to why exactly that didn't ha...
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Are digital platforms the future of online business?

Adriana Puchianu posted an article on - Sep 8, 2009, 8:43 am
Some recent news that I read throughout the last couple of weeks got me thinking about the potential future of online businesses: digital platforms. To start with, I must admit my idea of a digital platform is a bit fuzzy. I started writing this blog by checking Wikipedia to see what a digital platf...
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Game, set, tweet

Adriana Puchianu posted an article on - Sep 3, 2009, 4:00 am
Most of my friends know that I am a tennis fan. A tennis freak would probably be more precise. Which explains why I've been spending most of my time these days to follow US Open on TV. And while this blog doesn't (sadly) cover sports, this little piece of news gives me the opportunity to talk about ...
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(Net) Surfing the winds of change?

Adriana Puchianu posted an article on - Sep 1, 2009, 2:16 pm
Google announced today that it has reached a distribution agreement with Sony. The deal involves that Google's internet browser, Chrome, will be pre-installed on the new Sony Vaio models. The move comes a year after Google launched Chrome in a market long dominated by Internet Explorer. Also today, ...
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The fight for supremacy: Mobile Phone vs PC

Adriana Puchianu posted an article on - Aug 26, 2009, 6:47 am
A recent comment (thanks Ligia) drawing my attention to Nokia's announced entry in the netbook market brought me back to some previous considerations I had made in my master thesis (more of that in a future post). As I see it, Nokia's decision to expand in the netbook market is a proof of two things...
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