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 Topic A at the recent Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association Annual Meeting (SIFMA) was what to do about the fastest-growing communications phenomenon since the invention of the Internet: the explosion in social networking. Whenever compliance and communications come tog...Nov. 6, 2009 12:15 PM EST Reads: 375 |
 I am consulting now days and my iPhone is used for both personal and professional purposes. Several weeks ago I complained in an article about having to use my personal phone number and voice mail for business. A kind reader suggested that I try the new Google Voice service. I did and ...Nov. 6, 2009 11:45 AM EST Reads: 231 |
 For many years I have developed and managed marketing campaigns for mobile software companies. I ran seminars, Pay Per Click campaigns, white paper distributions, email blasts, webinars, Web 2.0 strategies etc. As a result, I am very interested in seeing which mobile software companies...Nov. 6, 2009 11:30 AM EST Reads: 269 |
 I can't let this experience go undocumented. I am sitting in Starbucks drinking a Mocha, writing a blog article, chatting with an international client on skype, checking and responding to emails, taking phone calls, recording voice memos, accessing spreadsheets on Google Docs, scheduli...Nov. 6, 2009 11:00 AM EST Reads: 236 |
 Last week I wrote an article pondering the benefits of using my iPhone to capture the bar code on grocery store products, using the integrated digital camera, and then have my iPhone use its GPS coordinates to look at the prices of this product in other grocery store locations that are...Nov. 4, 2009 03:30 PM EST Reads: 201 |
 The new Moyea Video4Web Converter V2.1 with optimized menu display pattern, fast video codec encoding speed and perfect bug-fixings, makes video to flash video conversion the easiest and quickest ever.Nov. 4, 2009 01:15 PM EST Reads: 314 |
 Today is finally the day that Umoo tournaments is coming out of private beta and into the public arena. I can now set up my own tournaments with a larger crowd, maybe I can push the magic “Invite my Facebook friends button’. Currently, I mostly play Fun games, without any entry fee tha...Oct. 29, 2009 05:30 PM EDT Reads: 585 |
 Sony Ericsson has time and again come up with exciting and rather different looking gadgets. They have revolutionized the music phone segment with the Walkman series, created waves in the camera phone segment with Cyber shot series apart from introducing exciting touchscreen phones. Th...Oct. 29, 2009 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 547 |
 I want to be able to go to a grocery store (food store) and take out my iPhone, photograph the bar code label (UPC code) and have my GPS location uploaded to a website that will instantly provide me with all the discounts, coupons and rebates available for that product (UPC code) in th...Oct. 29, 2009 01:54 PM EDT Reads: 325 |
 Google has certainly been busy building a lot of different software tools that can be used for collaboration, including Google Docs, Google Voice, Google Sites (formerly Jotspot) and Google Calendar. But there are a number of specialized tools that are more useful than these Google ser...Oct. 29, 2009 01:15 PM EDT Reads: 821 |
 Have we reached the point where email’s influence over our electronic lives is waning? It is hard to imagine, especially for those of us who grew up in the minicomputer/PC era. For two generations, email was the killer application. It delivered information reliably and within a few min...Oct. 29, 2009 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 882 |
 The data center industry continues to evolve with mergers, acquisitions, and a healthy crop of emerging companies. New data center products and services are hitting the street, an aggressive debate on the model of selling space vs. power, and alternatives to physical data center space...Oct. 28, 2009 07:00 PM EDT Reads: 391 |
 In this second article in the series I want to focus on the use of business intelligence and business analytics as it relates to mobile applications. If you are driving a vehicle and/or using a Smart Phone, you do not want to be doing a lot of research and analytics on your small scree...Oct. 28, 2009 05:15 PM EDT Reads: 482 |
 There was an interesting article by Bill Kauffman in the Wall Street Journal today (October 20, 2009) in the Bookshelf section called Where Home Is, The Heart Isn't. It talks about the book Hollowing Out the Middle by husband and wife sociologists Patrick J. Carr and Maria J. Kefalas t...Oct. 28, 2009 04:45 PM EDT Reads: 592 |
 Kooaba's mobile image recognition (MIR) technology will be used in the November edition of Wired magazine (US) to link print advertisements to online content. Kooaba claims this as a US first. Oddly enough Wired online are also running a vstory on augmented reality (AR) here. The adva...Oct. 28, 2009 12:45 PM EDT Reads: 322 |
 I had the privilege of serving on the Board of the Peter Drucker Foundation (now the Leader to Leader Institute) for ten years. Peter was a pioneer in understanding the impact of knowledge workers in the new economy. He simply defined knowledge workers as ‘people who know more about wh...Oct. 28, 2009 12:15 PM EDT Reads: 822 |
 "The Secret" was launched by Rhonda Byrne in 2006 and says that thoughts have an energy that attracts like energy and you attract into your life whatever you think about. This tool refers to what Buddha said: "What you have become is the result of what you have thought". It suggests th...Oct. 28, 2009 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 644 |
 obile Mondays in Beijing is normally not a big thing for me and given that I have to spend an hour to go to the events in Orange Labs in Zhongguangcun, I have not been to a single event yet. When we Trolltech, we participated in an event but as I was traveling, two of my colleagu...Oct. 27, 2009 03:09 PM EDT Reads: 290 |
 The FCC finally moved the network neutrality debate forward Thursday, voting to begin developing open Internet regulations. The debate is actually quite simple – should the government regulate, or not regulate the Internet? That discussion revolves around the six principles of networ...Oct. 26, 2009 02:38 PM EDT Reads: 538 |
 A team at Kansas State University using per-capita stats maps out the regions where there is the most sin. This is interesting not just for the sensationalism of it, but for the cleverness of the team at Kansas State. How does one take per-capita stats and make them interesting for t...Oct. 23, 2009 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 678 |
 I can see multiple mobile applications and technologies converging rapidly to provide some very interesting scenarios for mobile and route sales people. Consider the following scenario. A mobile sales person or route sales person is driving through an unfamiliar territory. She stops in...Oct. 21, 2009 12:38 PM EDT Reads: 301 |
 The ultimate goal of any software vendor is...to make sure that their software runs on iPhone. The time will come when entire J2EE stack with EJB will run on iPhone. Singing... You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. Imagine there's no iPhone Oct. 19, 2009 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 770 |
 Speaking of the mobile app market blowing up, I wanted to give you a heads up regarding a great mobile event: Under the Radar on 11/19 in Mountain View, CA.
From global carriers and handset manufacturers to media companies, branding partners, press and VCs — anyone who’s a...Oct. 15, 2009 09:05 AM EDT Reads: 291 |
 BlackBerry recently pushed out another update of the OS for the BlackbBrry Bold, and it appears that wireless upgrades are still a problem. BlackBerry maker RIM has just posted another update for the phone, 4.6.0.297, that appears to be a set up patches on top of the previous upgrade.Oct. 15, 2009 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,022 |
 My previous post about the Sidekick failure seems to have whipped up a bit of a frenzy around whether or not the Sidekick platform is an actual cloud service. On one side you people saying it isn't a cloud because it's not redundant or distributed or api accessible or whatever. On the ...Oct. 15, 2009 07:30 AM EDT Reads: 710 |
 Long story short. Apple did cancel the order. But it takes 3-4 days for Apple to clear the transaction from ATTs system. In the meantime, they put a hold on my ATT account – so no new purchases or changes can be made. So basically – I can’t have a new phone until Apple's system relea...Oct. 14, 2009 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 668 |
 n their report on Trusted Access to Communications Infrastructure, the NSTAC Vulnerabilities Task Force advises “”it is important to recognize that any one individual with malicious intent accessing any critical telecommunications facility could represent a threat. The threat of inside...Oct. 14, 2009 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 386 |
 The Sidekick is made by Danger, a company acquired by Microsoft in 2008. As one of T-Mobile’s flagship mobile phones, the Sidekick was one of the first and most popular consumer smartphones. Featuring a real keyboard, it offered an instant messaging application at a time when many ph...Oct. 14, 2009 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 760 |
 I was quite brazen at first, I just logged straight in not fully understand the ramifications. No thought of what could happen if.......? Within Days I was affiliated in magazines, aggregated on global sites, people were creating RSS feeds of my content, the whirlwind grew as my page ...Oct. 8, 2009 11:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,774 |
 Hello, from Geneva where I’ve been attending the ITU Telecom World Conference for the last few days. It’s been three years since the last show, and it’s energizing to see the ever increasing recognition as to the increased role that the network can play in improvin... Oct. 8, 2009 04:47 PM EDT Reads: 425 |
 Nearly 80% of companies reported an increase in the number of employees wanting to bring their own devices into the workplace in the last 6-12 months according to ‘The Device Dilemma,’ a report by Vanson Bourne and Good Technology. In addition, two thirds of IT Managers have been under...Oct. 8, 2009 01:08 PM EDT Reads: 381 |
 Today Samsung Mobile and Sybase announced collaboration plans to deploy, manage and secure Windows Mobile® powered smart phones for enterprise customers. The project will provide mobile knowledge workers with advanced access to business-critical applications.Oct. 8, 2009 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 382 |
 Yesterday RIM announced their Widget SDK. We’re excited about about this at Rhomobile because it is further validation of the strategy to utilize developer’s web skills to build great native apps. We often find ourselves having to explain “yes - it does let you writ...Oct. 7, 2009 06:40 PM EDT Reads: 226 |
 Let me set the scene for my fictitious organization... My insurance company needs to speed up the flow and turn around in claims. Currently Assessors are given their appointments in the office at the start of day and then go out on the road. With them, they may take a paper notebook, a...Oct. 2, 2009 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 570 |
I have a good one, did you hear the joke about the telco who promised everything and started falling apart at the seems because we wanted it all? This may be the curse of AT&T. Sep. 23, 2009 10:00 PM EDT Reads: 685 |
 I was already thinking about the insecurity of cell phone communications because Molly Dolesalek reported on them in Processor Magazine. "It's fairly easy to tap into a cell phone conversation, but the business world doesn't really understand that," Dunleavy says. For that reason, he b...Sep. 22, 2009 07:15 PM EDT Reads: 651 |
 Open Source in mobile phones and devices are becoming increasingly popular and hyped. All and everyone but Microsoft seems to go and use open source: Nokia, Motorola, Google, SonyEricsson, Samsung, LGE, HTC, China Mobile, etc. etc. I attended OSiM in Amsterdam for a day (had to be back...Sep. 21, 2009 06:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,040 |
 I'm In Langley, WA this coming Saturday September 19th to speak about the media play for cloud computing at New Media 2012. I like the agenda and set up. Each speaker gets five min to make their case. Then comes a panel discussion. The line-up includes people from the telecom world, ga...Sep. 16, 2009 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,007 |
 Sunday night Apple dropped the price of the Apple TV by $100 for the 160Gb model - this brings it down to $229. The smaller 40Gb model is now MIA - so long, little white Apple TV. The Apple TV area as a whole is an odd one for Apple. When you hear Tim Cook and Phil Schiller talk about ...Sep. 14, 2009 05:30 PM EDT Reads: 708 |
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