With the announcement of the Kindle Fire Tablet this week (http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/38690/?nlid=nldly&nld=2011-09-29), we can officially say that the convergence of cloud + mobile is underway. These worlds have traditionally been separated with the cloud being about virtualizing services and data sources so they can be accessible anywhere, and mobile being about getting services and data onto devices for users on the go. But now, we are seeing the multiplier effect of having services/data in the cloud and being able to easily access those same data/services on any device on the go. With better speeds available from wireless networks like 802.11n and HSPA/LTE, more services/content accessible via html5 in the browser, and faster processing on the back-end via in-memory technologies, we can now get more functionality with simpler devices.
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