By Asokan Thiyagarajan – Technology Evangelist, Ecosystem and Market Development
Asokan Thiyagarajan serves as a technology evangelist within the Ecosystem and Market Development team at Motorola. In this role, he is responsible for recommending strategies to address market and technology trends as well as partnerships with key developers.
Asokan has over 18 years of international experience in high technology sectors, developing software and communication systems. Prior to Motorola, Asokan held a variety of senior development, operations, and strategic management positions at companies such as Nokia, Ericsson and Compaq (HP). He also has entrepreneurial experience, having co-founded a technology company.
Asokan writes a monthly feature entitled "On the Cutting Edge" for the MOTODEV newsletter, in which he examines trends and events in the industry. A collection of those feature articles is listed below.
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Mobile Data Enabled Applications and Connected Consumer Experiences - 08/05/2008
Late last year mobile phone penetration hit an important landmark, expanding to reach 50% of the world's total population. As this explosive growth continues, a parallel movement is taking place in mobile networks, which are evolving quickly from voice-only to data based models ...
Building the Next Generation of Mobile Applications: Context Awareness - 07/01/2008
Mobile hardware and software producers spend an astounding amount of time considering human and user interface details in an effort to make the interaction simple for the user. But is the user the only source of information a device can use to make interaction simpler and more effective? Not anymore ...
DNLA: The Digital Home in Reality - 06/02/2008
Digital Living Network Alliance, or DLNA technology enables multi-vendor consumer devices to communicate by building a common connectivity platform for a variety of multimedia experiences ...
Mobile Music: A Social Phenomenon - 05/02/2008
Music remains an amazingly disruptive (in a good way) influence for the mobile marketplace. From basic hardware design evolution to robust DRM schemes, music has ushered the creation of several cutting edge developments for device manufacturers and software developers alike. It's really no surprise, then, that music has the potential to form the core of creative new experiences in mobile applications ...
Femto-Cells: Next Generation Home Base Stations - 04/01/2008
More commonly known as the home base station, a femtocell creates that broadband - mobile network interface. Using a simple appliance similar to a wireless router, femtocell technology brings the promise of more consistent mobile connections using a technology native to existing mobile hardware ...
Emerging Technology: Near Field Communications - 03/03/2008
Near Field Communication (NFC) is a fast emerging short-range wireless connectivity standard that significantly simplifies the interaction of consumer devices across a range of applications. Though fairly new, NFC has evolved from a combination of existing contactless identification and interconnection technologies, most notably RFID. The technology can be implemented in mobile phones or other portable devices to enable secure electronic payments ...
Location-based Services: Have they arrived? - 02/01/2008
Until 2006, LBS was more talk than action, but now in the early days of 2008, LBS is a real thing. The technology now exists for these applications to work smoothly, without interruption, and in concert with each other. But that's the linchpin of the developer's puzzle: Rethinking the way these applications work together to provide a seamless location-based experience instead of a one-off gadget ...
Games, Mobile Phones and Technology - 01/01/2008
Mobile games are gaining market presence. From the 38 million users measured across the globe in 2005, an iSuppli marketing report forecasts a threefold growth to 134 million mobile game users by 2010. Mobile gaming revenue is also expected to nearly triple by 2011, growing to $6.6 billion. An In-Stat report predicts that 9 percent of mobile subscribers will use their phones for games ...
Social Networks – The Mobile Way - 12/03/2007
Social networks are sprouting these days like wild mushrooms. Many of these new online communities cater to niche interests ranging from obscure political candidates to independent films. Social networking sites allow users to create online profiles and build personal networks that connect them to other users ...
MIDP 3.0: The Next Generation In Java ME Application Development - 11/01/2007
Ever since Java for Mobile Devices was released in 1998, it has been widely adopted by most manufacturers and application programmers. Java ME is available on more than 80 percent of the handsets, and it seems to be a very favorable programming environment due to its wide availability. Though portability has suffered due to fragmentation issues, it still seems to be the no. 1 choice for mobile application programmers ...
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