Naba K Das

Sept 2010

“A new technology that unexpectedly displaces an established technology”. Clayton M. Christensen of HBS in The

Innovator's Dilemma.

What is Disruptive Technology?

Disruption is rarely the result of a single gadget or innovation. It's typically a product of two or more technologies.

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Gartner 2008-20121. Multi-core and hybrid processors 2. Virtualization and fabric computing 3. Social networks and social software 4. Cloud computing and Web

platforms 5. Web mash-ups 6. User Interface 7. Ubiquitous computing 8. Contextual computing 9. Augmented reality 10. Semantics

PC World

1. Smart Phone & Wireless Access

2. Web & Graphical Browser

3. Broadband & Wireless Network

4. Cloud & Always on Device

5. Cheap Storage & Portable Memory

6. Blogs & Google Ads

120K new blogs per day

7. MP3 – Music on the Web

8. Open Source & Web Tool

9. YouTube

10. DVRPC Magazine1. Instant On2. Pervasive connectivity3. Targeted advertising4. Telepresence.5. Cloud-based DRM.

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State of Internet

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State of Internet

41.1 B minutes on Facebook39.8 B minutes on Google37.7 B on Yahoo

1B+ views pd in YouTube4B+ images on FlicKr3M Articles on Wikipedia145M users at Twitter

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State of Internet

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State of Internet

Future is Mobile Broadband. Mobile Web

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Mobile Penetration

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Top 10 iPhone Apps1. Tweetie 2 2. Yelp 3. Slacker 4. FlightTrack Pro 5. Mint 6. SlingPlayer Mobile 7. The Small Chair (McSweeney's) 8. RunKeeper9. Photoshop.com Mobile10. Locavore

Gartner : Top 10 Consumer Mobile Applications for 2012

1. Money Transfer2. LBS ($96m in 09 to $526 m in 12)3. Mobile Search4. Mobile Browsing5. Mobile Health Monitoring6. Mobile Payment7. Near Field Communication Services8. Mobile Advertising ($530 m in 08 to $7.2b in 12)

9. Mobile Instant Messaging10. Mobile Music

Mobile Web

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Mobile Web

Apple app store has 225K appsBlackBerry 9500Android 65000

3 billion apps downloaded from the Apple app Store as on Jan 2010.

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Mobile Web : India

As on Mar 10 Total Phone Subscriber 621MTotal Wireless Subscriber 584MUrban Tele-density 119. Rural 24Per TRAI significant growth in Rural India

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Access to web is an universal right, and access via mobile or portable devices will eliminate the digital divide

With the emergence of low cost mobile devices with rich features & commoditization of bandwidth, new smart phone users will grow significantly

Large number of open development community building sophisticated VAS & easy to use apps plus impulsive buying (due to low cost) will contribute significant growth to mobile app development

Mobile Banking, Health Care, Home Education, Hyper-local information, Rural Apps & Video will create massive bandwidth demand

… plus development of HTML5, CCS3, Geo-location & related evolving technologies will change the entire eco-system

Bottom line …

Last But One

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