Cellphone application meet opens in Pune

People would have to redefine the way they look at technology, according to Anand Deshpande, founder of Persistent Systems, at the inauguration of a two-day conference on cellphone application development on Friday.

“The software Industry is going to change because of cloud computing, which is cheaper and faster and has advantages like illusion of infinite resources, fine-grained billing and less upfront cost. Economies of scale is what is driving cloud computing and has a cascading effect,” he said.

He said the expectations from mobile internet were also increasing as it was now getting into the mainstream.

“The launch of Android has been successful. Price points for smart phones are getting affordable. One can look at specialised devices for particular activities in future like smart energy meters, smart traffic lights and so on. Mobile applications are also becoming social,” he said.

Harshad Oak, co-founder of IndicThreads said, “Research shows that software for mobile devices will be one of the key drivers of the IT industry over the next five years, with just mobile application revenues expected to exceed $25 billion by 2014. To add to this are the mobile solutions that consumers, corporates and enterprises would want for their IT systems,” he said.

Sessions at the conference dealt with all of the major cellphone software development platforms and took a close look at building software for different devices while leveraging the latest technologies like cloud computing & HTML5.

Speakers at the conference included Anand Hariharan, senior product development manager at TapNTap Inc; Venkat Ratnam, product evangelist at Samsung; Hemant Sharma, platform evangelist with Adobe; Rohit Ghatol, associate architect with QuickOffice; Navin Kabra, co-founder of BharatHealth & PuneTech; Vikram Pendse, Microsoft MVP; Balagopal K S,
technology expert for Nokia; Pradeep Rao, solutions
consultant at BlackBerry; and Rohit Nayak, architect
at Talentica.